SWOT Analysis

Most of the data needed for market analysis (demand, prices, volume of sales, etc.) are undefined, and in future are possible their changes as in the worst and the best side. SWOT analysis is effective method for prediction these processes and decision making for organizations that function in a competitive environment. It allows you to see the whole situation, to identify the strengths and weaknesses of organization (advantages and disadvantages), as well as opportunities and threats of external environment. The results of SWOT analysis are the basis for optimization the business processes, for development by the leading specialists in organization of interrelated complex of strategies and competitive activities. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software enhanced with SWOT and TOWS Matrix Diagrams Solution will effectively help you in strategic planning for your company, department, project, in development marketing campaign, in identification of four categories of factors of internal and external environment of organization, and construction professional-looking SWOT and TOWS matrices.

SWOT Analysis

When starting a new business project or business venture and making the strategic decisions, you need to attach all strengths, utilize all opportunities to eliminate weaknesses and to avoid potential threats. All these actions look like hard, but it is not so when is applied a SWOT Analysis method. The main goal of this method is to help develop a strong business strategy, its major tools are SWOT Matrix and SWOT Mind Map that help you define the internal strengths and weaknesses, and also external opportunities and threats that you may face. The Mind Map is a unique visual tool, which lets you see immediately the key points and gaps, and to establish the links between seemingly unrelated information. ConceptDraw MINDMAP software is effective to save your time and efforts when carrying out a SWOT Analysis. The SWOT and TOWS Matrix Diagrams solution, that is available from ConceptDraw Solution Park, contains easy-to-use Mind Map templates to help you identify the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, and represent the SWOT analysis results on the professionally-looking Mind Map.

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.

Gant Chart in Project Management

Gantt Chart is a graphical representation of tasks as segments on a time scale. It helps plan and monitor project development or resource allocation. There are list of tasks, project milesones and stages. The horizontal axis is a time scale, expressed either in absolute or relative time. Gantt chart can be used for planning in virtually any industry. There are major project planning tools using gantt chart for creating project plan. For instance, using ConceptDraw PROJECT together with ConceptDraw MINDMAP for planning marketing actions is very effective way. It makes ConceptDraw Office best marketing project management software for gantt chart planning marketing message, scheduling stages when to send massive text messages or when use email marketing services in specific projects. There are simple steps on how to use project management software for marketing, sales actions and product support. This is simple all in one toolbox for managers who need best project management software for small business as for planning and brainstorming as for reporting at project execution stage. Using gantt charts together with mindmap visuals and professional presentations charts make it excellent creative project management software. ConceptDraw PROJECT is portfolio project management software it allows manage many projects with multi gantt chart.

How to make great presentation via Skype? ...how it works with ConceptDraw MINDMAP?

The Brainstorming session is successfully conducted, professional-looking Mind Map is designed, but how to present it to colleagues? The mindmapping software with ability of showing the business presentation via Skype is valuable. The Remote Presentation for Skype solution enhances the ConceptDraw MINDMAP software with useful ability to deliver the presentations via Skype. With it you can make great presentations, develop your own presentation style and remotely present the business documents to all participants of Skype conference call. Simply click the Show Presentation via Skype button in ConceptDraw MINDMAP application, the presentation file will be synchronized and Skype presentation will be demonstrated as a slide show at all computers of Skype conference participants, you need only control the presentation slides. Using current voice call you can tell your presentation story and discuss it. At the end of presentation made via Skype, each participant has its own copy of presentation document file saved in Presentation History folder and will be able to see it again, if he wants.

Ansoff Matrix

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software extended with Matrices Solution from the Marketing Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park offers you the possibility to develop the Ansoff Matrix of any complexity.

Affinity Diagram

The Affinity Diagram, also known as a KJ diagram, is a business tool invented for organization the large quantity of ideas and data. It is a part of Seven Management and Planning Tools, it is usually used right after brainstorming to sort large numbers of ideas into the corresponding groups. The Affinity Diagram helps to represent in a better way the structure of large and complex factors which influence on a problem, divides these factors into the smaller and simpler structures, and helps team members to see the patterns and identify possible solutions to problems they have. The diagrams of this type don't show the causal relationships between the factors, but they are designed to prepare the data for holding further analysis of the cause-effect relationships. Another area of Affinity Diagram usage is contextual inquiry as a way to sort observations and notes from field interviews, support call logs, open-ended survey responses organizing, etc. ConceptDraw MINDMAP software offers you the tools for easy holding brainstorming, generation ideas and creation MINDMAP Affinity Diagram.

How to make great presentation via Skype? ...how it works with ConceptDraw MINDMAP?

ConceptDraw Solution Park provides a lot of useful solutions, among them Remote Presentation for Skype solution and powerful Mind Map Exchange solution. The presentation via Skype conference call is a part of Remote Presentation for Skype solution, due to it you are able to share easily your presentation via Skype and to control the slide-show process, which plays synchronously on the computers of all conference call participants. The Mind Map Exchange solution provides a lot of features for importing and exporting the documents between ConceptDraw MINDMAP software and the most popular mindmapping software tools, such as MindJet Mindmanager, Freemind, XMind and others. Thanks to all these abilities the ConceptDraw MINDMAP mind mapping software is perfect for holding the remote learning, remote training, varied web conferences, webinars and team briefings, and to represent any kind of information in a simple and convenient Mind Map form. With ConceptDraw MINDMAP it is easy to deliver the presentation session via Skype and to share the great-looking presentation documents with each conference participant.

One formula of professional mind mapping : input data + output data + make great presentation

ConceptDraw MINDMAP is a powerful software from ConceptDraw Office suite, which provides a lot of tools and components for professional Mind Mapping. Besides the extensive tools for creation attractive and great-looking Mind Maps, it offers also wide import capabilities from MS Office files and mind mapping files MindJet MindManager, XMind and FreeMind, extensive export capabilities to common formats, such as PDF, HTML, different graphic formats, the possibility to generate MS Office documents, Project Management reports, PowerPoint presentations and demonstrate them via Skype conference call. Use of Skype conference call feature lets you to demonstrate the presentation's slide show and control it on computers of Skype call participants. This Report Mind Map example created in ConceptDraw MINDMAP software depicts the current project status and includes many pages and slides. This Project Status Report can be easy played as a slide show presentation on the large screen or to remote team using Skype conference call.

Looking at ConceptDraw MINDMAP as a Replacement for Mindjet Mindmanager

The comparing of ConceptDraw MINDMAP to Mindjet Mindmanager allows to identify a lot of benefits. At first, the ConceptDraw MINDMAP has a lower price, the flexible licensing, the license is per-named-user, no charge for major product upgrades and no charge for support. ConceptDraw MINDMAP is effective for launching the stalled projects to new heights, it possess the excellent possibility of importing and exporting to other mind mapping program file formats. ConceptDraw MINDMAP easily integrates with wide set of programs, among them Evernote, Skype, Twitter, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Project, Mindjet Mindmanager, ConceptDraw PROJECT, ConceptDraw DIAGRAM , with solutions from ConceptDraw Solution Park. Now you have a freedom to choose the best format for each your document, it is incredibly easy to make the Skype presentation, to take and share critical information, to send your Mind Map to Evernote, to import / export MS Word documents, MS PowerPoint presentations, the project data, open and save Mindmanager files, to map out the long-term Twitter messages and publish them to your Twitter account directly from a Mind Map.

How To Collaborate via Skype

Online collaboration tool for workgroups that extends Skype conference call possibilities. This professional solution makes meetings more powerful and discussions more lively. Great way to engage your audience.

In searching of alternative to MS Visio for MAC and PC with ConceptDraw DIAGRAM

Undoubtedly MS Visio is a powerful and multifunctional tool, but however at times occur the instances, when it turns unable of meeting certain users' requirements. At this cases you may need to use an alternative program software, preferably it will be simple, convenient, and at the same time powerful and professional. In searching the alternative to MS Visio for MAC and PC we recommend you to pay attention for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software, which was developed to satisfy all your drawing needs and requirements. It is a fully-functioned alternative product to MS Visio for both platforms. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software has many advantages, the main among them are the cross-platform compatibility, a reasonable price, widespread ConceptDraw Solution Park with huge variety of different solutions that offer numerous libraries of specialized vector objects, useful examples, samples, and quick-start templates, extensive import / export capabilities, built-in script language, MS Visio support and certainly free technical support.