Case Studies

MapShare is a pivotal part of communicating information without making our partners jump through hoops.

Robert Blanchet,  President, Capella Technologies

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%.

Mario Morel, President

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."

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."