Organizational Structure

The organizational structure reflects the composition and hierarchy of company's divisions, determines the distribution of authorities and responsibilities within the organization, and facilitates the understanding by workers their responsibilities. It also defines the group of people making key decisions at the company. Visualization of organizational structure of any company, organization or institution is not an easy task, because sometimes the company may include several departments, each with more than thousand persons. For such large organizations often are created the Organizational charts for every department separately. There are many ways of organization's structuring, which determine its work. Often happens that organizational structure adapts to production process. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM extended with unique Organizational Charts solution from Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is a powerful organizational structure software, which ideally suits for developing Organizational Charts of any type and any complexity.

6 sigma

6 Sigma is a popular management concept aimed at improving the quality of work of an organization or individual units and at continuous perfection the processes. The improvement of organization's activities may be executed through the radical changes or in consequence to minor regular improvements. The main purposes of these improvements may be increasing of product safety, improvement quality, decreasing the quantity of defects, shorter the manufacturing cycle, improvement the workplaces, reducing costs, etc. Currently, Six Sigma is applied by organizations of various activity spheres, from the industrial enterprises to the banks. 6 Sigma uses a set of different tools of quality for realizing the improvements and control the processes. Each organization applies its own set of tools, such as Pareto chart, Ishikawa diagram, Tree diagram, etc. Solutions from the Quality area of ConceptDraw Solution Park support quality and manufacturing managers with powerful visualization tools for production quality control and improvement, and supply the ConceptDraw MINDMAP software with Quality Management Mind Maps. This map illustrates how the Six Sigma methodology can be represented as a Mind Map.

Org Chart Diagram

ConceptDraw Office products and PM solutions included to ConceptDraw Solution Park support many project methodologies, among them Agile and Simple Projects, which help in implementing the best practices in project management. ConceptDraw Office applications give effective support in solving the issues related with planning, tracking, events, milestones, resource usage, and many other project management functions. ConceptDraw MINDMAP software provides the great advantages of a Mind Map hierarchical tree structure during the process of development the organizational structure of an organization. When you need to make the Organizational Chart, you can use any ConceptDraw DIAGRAM or ConceptDraw MINDMAP software. If you already have a designed Mind Map, it is incredibly easy to generate an Organizational Chart directly from ConceptDraw MINDMAP. You need simply double-click the corresponding icon, all the rest will be made automatically. The Organizational Chart will be created from the active page of your map, outputted to ConceptDraw DIAGRAM and opened in Slideshow mode.

SWOT Analysis

The success of the company depends on how successfully it is able to react on different outside influences. When analyzing the external situation, it is necessary to identify the factors most significant on a specified period of time. An interrelated consideration of these factors with the company's possibilities allows to solve effectively appearing problems. One of the most common methods of assessment together internal and external factors influencing the company's development is a SWOT analysis. SWOT analysis (acronym composed of the first letters of the words: strength, weakness, opportunities, threats) is one of the most common and effective types of analysis in marketing and marketing researches. It allows to identify and structure the strengths and weaknesses of an enterprise, as well as potential opportunities and threats of the market, to make conclusion in which direction a given organization needs to develop its business and to formulate the organization's strategy. Use the ConceptDraw MINDMAP software and offered SWOT analysis templates for easy holding SWOT analysis for your company. This Mind Map displays the SWOT analysis for a company and variety of performance measures that influence its work.

Company Organization

The organizational structure of an enterprise shows how it is built and how it works, displays the quantitative and qualitative composition of the company, describes how are made decisions within a company and who is its leader, demonstrates the areas of responsibilities of each employee and his relationships with other employees of the structural units. You can represent the organizational structure schematically in a form of Organizational Chart or Mind Map, clearly showing how the units of an organization interact each other. Schematic representation of organizational structure is a pyramid where the top level corresponds to the top management, middle - to managers and professionals, and lower layer - to performers. The clear understanding of company's structure is particularly important when we are talking about a large company, with many subdivisions, and maybe departments in different cities or even countries. The organizational structure is formed depending on the goals of the enterprise activities and departments necessary for achievement these goals. The Mind Map created with ConceptDraw MINDMAP software breaks down the company's organization by departments, management, board of directors, and investors.

Computer Hardware - Reseller Business Plan

When developing a business plan it is very important to accurately represent the structure and visually outline all important information. A business plan usually has a clear hierarchical structure. The Mind Maps are particularly effective to describe such structures, they are one of the most powerful and visually intuitive tools for the tasks of structuring and memorizing large amounts of information. The Mind Maps are indispensable in development the complex projects, in preparation and discussion of business plans, in designing the presentations, in process of decision making, holding brainstorming, time management, etc. As for the software for working with Mind Maps, particularly effective is a cross-platform ConceptDraw MINDMAP software for Windows and Mac OS X. It provides many tools that help in business plan preparation for organizing the new business, in developing a business plan for promotion some product, etc. ConceptDraw MINDMAP supports the multipage documents, the export and import into popular applications MS PowerPoint, MS Word, PDF, MindManager, in project management applications ConceptDraw Project and MS Project, and in various graphical formats. You can to observe a Mind Map of a business plan for computer hardware reseller designed in ConceptDraw MINDMAP.

Types of Flowcharts

A Flowchart is a graphical representation of process, algorithm, workflow or step-by-step solution of the problem. It shows the steps as boxes of various kinds and connects them by arrows in a defined order depicting a flow. There are twelve main Flowchart types: Basic Flowchart, Business Process Modeling Diagram (BPMN), Cross Functional Flowchart, Data Flow Diagram (DFD), IDEF (Integrated DEFinition) Flowchart, Event-driven Process Chain (EPC) Diagram, Influence Diagram (ID), Swimlane Flowchart, Process Flow Diagram (PFD), Specification and Description Language (SDL) Diagram, Value Stream Mapping, Workflow Diagram. Using the Flowcharts solution from the Diagrams area of ConceptDraw Solution Park you can easy and quickly design a Flowchart of any of these types. This solution offers a lot of special predesigned vector symbols for each of these widely used notations. They will make the drawing process of Flowcharts much easier than ever. Pay also attention for the included collection of ready Flowchart examples, samples and quick-start templates. This is business process improvement tools. If you are looking for MS Visio for your Mac, then you are out of luck, because it hasn't been released yet. However, you can use Visio alternatives that can successfully replace its functions. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is an alternative to MS Visio for Mac that provides powerful features and intuitive user interface for the same.