MindManager

I own the full Corel Technical Suite, CorelCAD, and the CorelDraw Graphics Suite from X4 through X8. One of these days, I'll upgrade to the latest version. I'd love to have the latest edition of CorelCAD, but it's beyond me at the moment as a graduate student. I'd also like to have fully unfettered cross-functionality between CDR and MindManager.

It worked really well when I was in the role of tendering for new business, keeping all the information together and project managing it during the bid and then afterward with implementing the new business. I built up a library for each type of bid and this saved a massive amount of time for subsequent bids.

When people are given projects they can update on that particular project so that if their supervisor needs to check or to support them they know exactly whats going on

Creating structure in our organization was incredibly important when we first began the task of merging two organizations into one. MindManager helped us process the needed changes we had to make in our structure. The matter was extremely delicate, as it meant that people had to move from their role into another role, and visualizing that change helped people in the transition.

We recently are going through a re-organization exercise. MindManager helped us to adjust and move positions and responsibilities around easily. A real time saver.

Again, the use of MindManager in almost every business function brings efficiencies, visual representation and helps get past "thought" blockers.

Quicker process summaries and feedback before and after being precise. Can start with the big picture processes and steps then drill down to implications and deviations.

Benefits are that your client appreciates your knowledge by doing a SWOT and other analysis. You really bring out the information from them with the ease of MindManager.

I took the BABOK guide and completely transferred all the content, text, chapters and illustrations into a mind map. I can see relationships between various chapters much more easily.

I have run facilitated sessions with large groups to define new ideas, plan out our strategic and/or technology roadmap, or synthesize survey feedback into a single visualization to help group common ideas

The visual nature of MindManager makes the complexity of information be able to be understood once it becomes organized in a clear way. The flexibility allows a continual restructuring to ultimately arrive at a simple overall organization if that is possible in the particular set of circumstances. The BIM book was restructured numerous times in relation to the relative location of information in the book and MindManager provided the ability to develop an ultimately simple overall structure that was easy to understand for the readers. A copy of the map was included in the book to give the reader a view of the organization of all the material in the publication.

We had a recent significant business improvement effort where multiple individuals would be leading different workstreams. MindManager helped all the various leaders see what others were doing quickly and find ways to align efforts that a different area may not have known was going to take place.

It helped me to represent "online learning," a very large and complex concept, in complex layers and branches. I also used it to do a literature review for research and it helped me to organize my thoughts as I could move items around as the scheme for clustering change.

In brainstorm-type sessions, information can easily be categorised based on the paths created in the map. This easily allows different ideas and information to be compartmentalised which allows information to be put in the correct place. Also, the expand and hide functions allows the user to decide the level of detail they wish others to see depending on the audience it is being presented to.

I'm not even sure where to start because I have used it for this purpose so many times. I have benefited from it personally by getting clarity in my own head as to what needs to be done and how to break things down into smaller tasks. I have also benefited from it professionally when I have used maps to create process flow charts, or migration tracking documents and showed these documents to managers or leaders. They are always impressed with the quality of the work and how professional yet easy to read/understand the outputs are. In short, showing my MindManager work to others makes me look good.

Its difficult to organize more than a few collaborations with a spreadsheet. My lab has at least a dozen active collaborations at any given time and Mindmanager provides an easy overview of all of my collaborations. This way I can visualize the status of projects e.g. which tasks are underway and which are in the queue. The completion icons and coloring help highlight progress and areas that need attention.

This program makes it very visually appealing during presentation to other members of our team. However, for those not familiar, it can seem a bit overwhelming or cumbersome. I believe more members of our team are growing fond of the program due to its organization and presentation ability. Newer members are learning to use it sooner due to its values use.

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We use it for every client engagement and project. Sometimes a Mind Map is the only way to help people see a picture/project fully and all of its inter-dependencies. For creative problem solving and Design Thinking projects Mind Maps are an essential tool because it can do both divergent and convergent thinking processes so well. Most people and teams are good at the convergent, structured, analytical processes but often the real power is in the divergent, non structure more free flowing team processes which can then be rationalised with structured and more analytical processes.

Great use of contextual information management (tags, group of tags, icons, attachments, links, notes). There is great integration w/ MS Office (Outlook, Excel). Excellent time saver and provide quality visual management capabilities.

Our financial planning group performs comprehensive wealth management for our clients. There are times when clients don't understand why we ask for details they don't feel are relevant to the investment management side of the relationship. We'll show that client the areas of missing information (i.e. CPA information and why we invest with tax implications in mind) to encourage forthcoming communication and facilitate relationship building. Great tool!

Allows you to better visualize an argument as you are constructing it. Helps to visualize a workflow or business process. Also helps to visualize and organize thoughts in a brainstorm session or in the decision making process.

We were able to quickly and easily identify tasks and user stories that would need to be put into a formal agile format.

I was able to map out the course content and learning objectives of a suite of courses that I had developed. I then was able to use the map to illustrate redundancies in the current courses and make recommendations for tighter course redevelopment. MindManager enabled me to better articulate my value proposition to key stakeholders.