Case Studies
Project Management
“Mindjet has given us the foundation to organize and prioritize, commit names to specific actions and dates, and provide key feedback to management on a very timely basis.”
Now, MindManager is the heart and lifeblood of this business. Everything we do is built around taking legacy information... and translating it into the visual power of maps
Jeffrey Ritter, Founder and CEO
It’s the perfect solution for a virtual company; we can brainstorm in real time and it solved all our version control issues.
Dr. Max Anderson, President and CEO
MindManager is the best piece of legal software that's not marketed to lawyers.
Dave Maxfield, Partner
The structure [of MindManager] was very helpful to the invention and ideation process. It brought intense velocity to our strategic and tactical thinking, as well as our clients.
Dudley Fitzpatrick, Co-Founder
MindManager provides the most visually clear and simple way of breaking up a mass of information and presenting it effectively.
Barry Kleine, Global Reliability Manager
Maps that needed days to draw now take us hours. By passing product cost savings to our customers, we have increased our sales by 30%.
A project implementation is only as good as the planning. And Planning is only as good as the tools you're using to do it. The advanced planning, testing and organization of our thoughts that Mindjet enables, has helped us be more effect. Mindjet is the glue we were missing all along.
Gerard Beekmans, Senior Network Engineer
MindManager has saved our internal customers a lot of time previously spent plowing through big documents to figure out where to begin (projects). It has also saved our department a lot of time trying to communicate our ideas with business units and other internal IT customers. Finally, it has reduced the amount of time needed to implement the project because it helps facilitate communication."
We were faced with few resources to perform a Herculean task. The relationships between and among the members had to be clearly mapped out so that everyone in the consortium and potential funding agencies could clearly understand what we were trying to create and how we would organize the work. I had tried to do this all with just words. But it was too complex. They say a picture is worth 1000 words. If that's true, then visual maps are worth 5000 words."
MindManager enabled me to quickly extract key concepts from literally thousands of papers and books, and then connect them to others with similar concepts—and I can do it all in a single map."
We used to drop our project plans into either spreadsheets or text documents to get all our task lists organized—and then put it all into project management software. It was pretty hard moving things around, though, as project conditions changed. But with MindManager, I have the flexibility of being able to move things around and label things quickly. That’s what I really love about it."
The biggest benefit we get from mapping is the way it creates a very participatory meeting environment, enabling our teams to quickly capture best thinking and make those ideas immediately actionable. And it does it in a way that drives commitment and buy-in. It represents a whole new way of thinking about collaboration."
Lean Six Sigma team members know that they have an important task to identify specific changes to existing processes," she says. "And with any action that results in discussing and planning changes to any environment, there is an element of stress. Mapping helps them understand their current state and visualize their future state process—allowing them to focus on how to improve it."
Most of our competitors give the client either so much information that it’s difficult to figure out just what the class would look like–or proposals that are so simplistic the client can’t tell what they’d get…What MindManager maps enable us to do is show our clients what the class would actually look like. It’s a real differentiator."
The biggest ROI I get from MindManager is time savings. I can think about and plan projects very quickly in a map view, export all the information right into Microsoft Project, and I’m ready to go."
Everything from the concept stage of the company all the way through today to our current marketing and sales strategy is captured in MindManager maps. These visual representations of information have enabled us to convey a single message about what our product--and our company--are doing, and to keep all those disparate resources on the same page."
The main benefit [of MindManager] is time savings. We now usually run meetings by projecting a [MindManager] map on the wall, then using it to capture meeting input in a way that everyone can see. You bring people together for a limited time, capture their ideas and information, set action items and assignments, and everyone leaves the meeting with a clear understanding of what was accomplished. It's amazing to be able to go from inputting information to reaching agreement all in a single meeting."
What I deliver is IT capability. The quality of what I am able to deliver to my IT 'customers' has gone up with Mindjet MindManager. I can spend more time on IT projects, and less on administrative tasks like transcribing meeting notes, managing project details, and creating reports to send to my supervisors."
There are lots of applications and project management tools out there that give you a hierarchical view of information. But what you lose with these tools is the ability to see the whole picture--or just a piece of the picture at a time. MindManager allows us to see both, and that's a real benefit."
Davis says the storyboarding (with Mindjet MindManager) helped provoke questions that helped limit the scope of the (the global E-bonding client) project (he was working on). Seeing information laid out graphically made it clear that e-bonding was too expensive... "Without Mindjet we could have identified it with sticky notes," he says. "But I would say $10,000 was saved in not having to develop this, and we probably dropped it three weeks before we would have had we not had these tools."
"MapShare is a pivotal part of communicating information without making our partners jump through hoops."
Process Improvement
I’m in the business of personal productivity for myself and for my clients, and MindManager makes me fast.
Jay Carter, Founder and Head Coach, Hyperfocused Coaching Systems, LLC
We’re in the knowledge delivery business. MindManager allows me to organize and deliver knowledge in a more effective, more efficient fashion.
Nicholas Holmes, Chair of Construction Litigation Group, Nelson Kinder + Mosseau PC
Implementing a new tool is often the hardest part and adoption often fails. With strong support from Mindjet, the launch went smoothly and adoption has been widespread. It has been a real success.
Bill Chase, Director of Sales for the Americas, MathWorks
Establishing a successful method for the communication of these processes was our problem, and that's what we were able to solve with MindManager and MapShare./p>
Christopher Reed, Principal Consultant, INX
The net result is that Mindjet MindManager helps me do in an hour the kind of strategic business planning that used to take me days."
Howard Kamerer, COO
MindManager is the best piece of legal software that's not marketed to lawyers.
Dave Maxfield, Partner
MindManager has helped us retain our clients by visually showing them that we have their best interests at heart, both in the present and in their future retirement.
Lindsay Wright, Registered Assistant
Maps that needed days to draw now take us hours. By passing product cost savings to our customers, we have increased our sales by 30%.
Mario Morel, President
DealNavigator allows us to properly identify key players and work through and manage accounts with total visibility. Director of Sales and Demand Generation
Because MindManager helps you quickly build and adapt your own corporate view of the RUP, you have ready access to a customized process that will give you an edge in the marketplace.
Companies hire us because we prove to them that we thoroughly understand the [complex] problems they face and can quickly devise innovative solutions. MindManager has given us an affordable and easy-to-learn tool to do both. MindManager saves us a great deal of time, and time is money."
MindManager is very valuable to someone in my position who has to constantly assimilate information from all kinds of sources."
MindManager has helped us both speed up and improve our research activities. I can easily see us using this tool for other corporate undertakings too, like keeping track of customer suggestions, brainstorming market opportunities, intelligence on competitors and markets, tracking emerging technologies, and more."
MindManager gives me the ability to capture everything I want to do, then to organize it, prioritize it in one visual place, and share it with everyone,” says Philip Godden, RadioShack's Senior Director of Distribution Project Management. “In one map I can show our five most important objectives, the five aspects that support each of those five objectives, and then tie all the objectives together into one clear overall plan."
The value we get is far more than the ability to map out projects, business plans and thoughts. The real value is Mindjet MindManager's ability to help us think and present that information in a clear, concise and saleable way."
The (MindManager) mapping approach increased participation and excitement around process improvement, and made these meetings highly productive."
If there are eight to ten people sitting in a room and we can knock a half hour off the meeting, then we're really saving time. People can refer back to one map that has all the project ideas, action items, and related documents. And the maps become agendas for subsequent meetings."
Sales
Implementing a new tool is often the hardest part and adoption often fails. With strong support from Mindjet, the launch went smoothly and adoption has been widespread. It has been a real success.
Bill Chase, Director of Sales for the Americas, MathWorks
DealNavigator allows us to properly identify key players and work through and manage accounts with total visibility. Director of Sales and Demand Generation
"Mindjet is an integral part of the sales process at AscendWorks and with good reason. It has helped our company make hundreds of thousands of dollars." Don Dalrymple, President and Senior Advisor
In that short time, MindManager has helped us dramatically reduce the time from when a client says, ´Yes, we want to do business with you,´ to when our sales people are on the phones actually selling service contracts and generating revenue for that client."
MindManager helps us develop a significant level of trust, because potential customers can tell that I'm listening and that I've captured what they're trying to achieve."
Information Management
We’re in the knowledge delivery business. MindManager allows me to organize and deliver knowledge in a more effective, more efficient fashion.
Nicholas Holmes, Chair of Construction Litigation Group, Nelson Kinder + Mosseau PC
"My goal is for my students to identify and understand concepts by weaving a thread between content details. The context thread makes a concept, and mapping has helped me do that. "
Now, MindManager is the heart and lifeblood of this business. Everything we do is built around taking legacy information... and translating it into the visual power of maps
Jeffrey Ritter, Founder and CEO
It's the perfect solution for a virtual company; we can brainstorm in real time and it solved all our version control issues.
Dr. Max Anderson, President and CEO
MindManager immediately changed the way I work for the better.
Rick Angel, Founding Partner
MindManager has absolutely made my business more profitable...I couldn't imagine doing any of this without MindManager.
Michael Gilot, Partner
MindManager is the best piece of legal software that's not marketed to lawyers.
Dave Maxfield, Partner
With the [enormous] volume of information we need to draw from – sometimes just to support a single point – it's great to have relevant details a click away.
Jim Lauria, Vice President for Marketing and Business Development
MindManager has helped us retain our clients by visually showing them that we have their best interests at heart, both in the present and in their future retirement.
Lindsay Wright, Registered Assistant
The structure [of MindManager] was very helpful to the invention and ideation process. It brought intense velocity to our strategic and tactical thinking, as well as our clients.
Dudley Fitzpatrick, Co-Founder
| ABB MindManager provides the most visually clear and simple way of breaking up a mass of information and presenting it effectively. Barry Kleine, Global Reliability Manager |
A project implementation is only as good as the planning. And Planning is only as good as the tools you're using to do it. The advanced planning, testing and organization of our thoughts that Mindjet enables, has helped us be more effect. Mindjet is the glue we were missing all along.
Gerard Beekmans, Senior Network Engineer
MindManager has saved our internal customers a lot of time previously spent plowing through big documents to figure out where to begin (projects). It has also saved our department a lot of time trying to communicate our ideas with business units and other internal IT customers. Finally, it has reduced the amount of time needed to implement the project because it helps facilitate communication."
We were faced with few resources to perform a Herculean task. The relationships between and among the members had to be clearly mapped out so that everyone in the consortium and potential funding agencies could clearly understand what we were trying to create and how we would organize the work. I had tried to do this all with just words. But it was too complex. They say a picture is worth 1000 words. If that's true, then visual maps are worth 5000 words."
MindManager enabled me to quickly extract key concepts from literally thousands of papers and books, and then connect them to others with similar concepts—and I can do it all in a single map."
MindManager is very valuable to someone in my position who has to constantly assimilate information from all kinds of sources."
The main benefit [of MindManager] is time savings. We now usually run meetings by projecting a [MindManager] map on the wall, then using it to capture meeting input in a way that everyone can see. You bring people together for a limited time, capture their ideas and information, set action items and assignments, and everyone leaves the meeting with a clear understanding of what was accomplished. It's amazing to be able to go from inputting information to reaching agreement all in a single meeting."
"MapShare is a pivotal part of communicating information without making our partners jump through hoops."
Planning
MindManager provides a quantum leap in productivity when it comes to strategic synthesis.
MindManager immediately changed the way I work for the better.
Rick Angel, Founding Partner
MindManager has absolutely made my business more profitable...I couldn't imagine doing any of this without MindManager.
Michael Gilot, Partner
MindManager is the best piece of legal software that's not marketed to lawyers.
Dave Maxfield, Partne
With the [enormous] volume of information we need to draw from – sometimes just to support a single point – it's great to have relevant details a click away.
Jim Lauria, Vice President for Marketing and Business Development
MindManager has helped us retain our clients by visually showing them that we have their best interests at heart, both in the present and in their future retirement.
Lindsay Wright, Registered Assistant
The structure [of MindManager] was very helpful to the invention and ideation process. It brought intense velocity to our strategic and tactical thinking, as well as our clients.
Dudley Fitzpatrick, Co-Founder
MindManager provides the most visually clear and simple way of breaking up a mass of information and presenting it effectively.
Barry Kleine, Global Reliability Manager
A project implementation is only as good as the planning. And Planning is only as good as the tools you're using to do it. The advanced planning, testing and organization of our thoughts that Mindjet enables, has helped us be more effect. Mindjet is the glue we were missing all along.
Gerard Beekmans, Senior Network Engineer
MindManager has saved our internal customers a lot of time previously spent plowing through big documents to figure out where to begin (projects). It has also saved our department a lot of time trying to communicate our ideas with business units and other internal IT customers. Finally, it has reduced the amount of time needed to implement the project because it helps facilitate communication."
We burn through $15,000 to $20,000 a day, so it makes a big difference if we are able to manage [personnel] efficiently. We have sites strung out all over the place with varying needs. Anything we can do to get the sites repaired as quickly as possible is a benefit—and visual mapping does that."
Companies hire us because we prove to them that we thoroughly understand the [complex] problems they face and can quickly devise innovative solutions. MindManager has given us an affordable and easy-to-learn tool to do both. MindManager saves us a great deal of time, and time is money."
Before I started using MindManager, it would have taken me one week to put notes into some kind of organized form, another week to decipher the opportunity in an intelligible format, then one more week for us to digest everything and come to a decision. MindManager allowed us to accomplish in four days what used to take three weeks. That is really powerful."
The interesting thing--the real breakthrough MindManager provides--is that it enables us to essentially extend our initial creative brainstorming right into the meeting with the customer. Unlike slide presentations where it's basically a one-way information flow, MindManager enabled us to really open up a dialog with the university."
MindManager gives me the ability to capture everything I want to do, then to organize it, prioritize it in one visual place, and share it with everyone,” says Philip Godden, RadioShack's Senior Director of Distribution Project Management. “In one map I can show our five most important objectives, the five aspects that support each of those five objectives, and then tie all the objectives together into one clear overall plan."
Most of our competitors give the client either so much information that it's difficult to figure out just what the class would look like–or proposals that are so simplistic the client can't tell what they'd get…What MindManager maps enable us to do is show our clients what the class would actually look like. It's a real differentiator."
Everything from the concept stage of the company all the way through today to our current marketing and sales strategy is captured in MindManager maps. These visual representations of information have enabled us to convey a single message about what our product--and our company--are doing, and to keep all those disparate resources on the same page."
Meeting Management
The net result is that Mindjet MindManager helps me do in an hour the kind of strategic business planning that used to take me days."
MindManager has absolutely made my business more profitable...I couldn't imagine doing any of this without MindManager.
Michael Gilot, Partner
The interesting thing--the real breakthrough MindManager provides--is that it enables us to essentially extend our initial creative brainstorming right into the meeting with the customer. Unlike slide presentations where it's basically a one-way information flow, MindManager enabled us to really open up a dialog with the university."
The biggest benefit we get from mapping is the way it creates a very participatory meeting environment, enabling our teams to quickly capture best thinking and make those ideas immediately actionable. And it does it in a way that drives commitment and buy-in. It represents a whole new way of thinking about collaboration."
The pharmaceutical industry in general has many challenges right now. To compete effectively and be a leader in the field, Stiefel Laboratories needs to use technology as best we can. The quality of the collaboration on our team, and the way we were able to leverage our time together—I think that made MindManager a very valuable addition to the summit process, and will help Stiefel Laboratories meet its long-term business objectives."
Presenting Information Management
"My goal is for my students to identify and understand concepts by weaving a thread between content details. The context thread makes a concept, and mapping has helped me do that. "
Most of our competitors give the client either so much information that it's difficult to figure out just what the class would look like–or proposals that are so simplistic the client can't tell what they'd get…What MindManager maps enable us to do is show our clients what the class would actually look like. It's a real differentiator."
"MapShare is a pivotal part of communicating information without making our partners jump through hoops."
Health Care
The pharmaceutical industry in general has many challenges right now. To compete effectively and be a leader in the field, Stiefel Laboratories needs to use technology as best we can. The quality of the collaboration on our team, and the way we were able to leverage our time together—I think that made MindManager a very valuable addition to the summit process, and will help Stiefel Laboratories meet its long-term business objectives."
MindManager gives us an efficient development process for planning, designing and managing very complex campaigns. The end result, I think, is that we''re able to get better products to market faster, and achieve our nonprofit mission of helping people make better health decisions."
Product Development
The structure [of MindManager] was very helpful to the invention and ideation process. It brought intense velocity to our strategic and tactical thinking, as well as our clients.
Dudley Fitzpatrick, Co-Founder
Because MindManager helps you quickly build and adapt your own corporate view of the RUP, you have ready access to a customized process that will give you an edge in the marketplace.
Embarcadero Technologies
There are lots of applications and project management tools out there that give you a hierarchical view of information. But what you lose with these tools is the ability to see the whole picture--or just a piece of the picture at a time. MindManager allows us to see both, and that's a real benefit.
Education
"My goal is for my students to identify and understand concepts by weaving a thread between content details. The context thread makes a concept, and mapping has helped me do that. "
MindManager allows us to flowchart business processes in an iterative and interactive fashion. It helps you visually and clearly analyze where your bottlenecks are and where there is scope for improvement. All of this is possible because you are in an interactive environment where the processes are mapped out visually."
If you can't capture the interactivity of the classroom you are encouraging a passive form of teaching. MindManager, on the other hand, has allowed me to integrate student responses and ideas right onto the screen– and at the same time manage the big picture and the small details."
MindManager enables faculty, with very little training, to create powerful images to depict complex information and relationships. Once they begin using this kind of visual technology, other ways of managing information seem crude by comparison."
Too often in education, we ask students to memorize facts –without helping them understand the relationships between the facts. By putting the information into a single MindManager map, they start seeing the big picture."
MindManager enabled me to quickly extract key concepts from literally thousands of papers and books, and then connect them to others with similar concepts—and I can do it all in a single map."
Government
We were faced with few resources to perform a Herculean task. The relationships between and among the members had to be clearly mapped out so that everyone in the consortium and potential funding agencies could clearly understand what we were trying to create and how we would organize the work. I had tried to do this all with just words. But it was too complex. They say a picture is worth 1000 words. If that's true, then visual maps are worth 5000 words."
We burn through $15,000 to $20,000 a day, so it makes a big difference if we are able to manage [personnel] efficiently. We have sites strung out all over the place with varying needs. Anything we can do to get the sites repaired as quickly as possible is a benefit—and visual mapping does that."
Lean Six Sigma team members know that they have an important task to identify specific changes to existing processes," she says. "And with any action that results in discussing and planning changes to any environment, there is an element of stress. Mapping helps them understand their current state and visualize their future state process—allowing them to focus on how to improve it."
Research and Development
MindManager has helped us both speed up and improve our research activities. I can easily see us using this tool for other corporate undertakings too, like keeping track of customer suggestions, brainstorming market opportunities, intelligence on competitors and markets, tracking emerging technologies, and more."
Information Technology
Because MindManager helps you quickly build and adapt your own corporate view of the RUP, you have ready access to a customized process that will give you an edge in the marketplace.
The biggest benefit we get from mapping is the way it creates a very participatory meeting environment, enabling our teams to quickly capture best thinking and make those ideas immediately actionable. And it does it in a way that drives commitment and buy-in. It represents a whole new way of thinking about collaboration."
The biggest ROI I get from MindManager is time savings. I can think about and plan projects very quickly in a map view, export all the information right into Microsoft Project, and I'm ready to go."
What I deliver is IT capability. The quality of what I am able to deliver to my IT 'customers' has gone up with Mindjet MindManager. I can spend more time on IT projects, and less on administrative tasks like transcribing meeting notes, managing project details, and creating reports to send to my supervisors."
"MapShare is a pivotal part of communicating information without making our partners jump through hoops."
Software Development
There are lots of applications and project management tools out there that give you a hierarchical view of information. But what you lose with these tools is the ability to see the whole picture--or just a piece of the picture at a time. MindManager allows us to see both, and that's a real benefit."
"MapShare is a pivotal part of communicating information without making our partners jump through hoops."
Non-Profit
MindManager gives us an efficient development process for planning, designing and managing very complex campaigns. The end result, I think, is that we''re able to get better products to market faster, and achieve our nonprofit mission of helping people make better health decisions."
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