MindGenius Mind Mapping Software Review - Software Spectrum
MindGenius Mind Mapping Software is for everyone in business. It drives improvement by providing clarity of thought and purpose in whatever task or project needs to be addressed. MindGenius has no "gimmicks" All features are value-adding, and aligned to real business processes.
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MindGenius overcomes the problems of brainstorming by helping you generate, capture and analyse the output as part of a brainstorming session.
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MindGenius uses the concept of Mapping to stimulate and capture ideas about a subject, with the freedom to organise and re-organise at will, before formalising them in the most appropriate Microsoft, or other, application.
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MindGenius not only drives creativity - it brings focus to individuals and team work, allowing them to “get work done”.
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Concept Mapping is a powerful graphical technique that stimulates and unlocks the potential of your brain. It uses words, images, numbers and colours to help you absorb information in a manner that makes it stick and helps you learn. In business, however, often learning is not the issue. Often it is more a question of how to access and harness the vast amounts of knowledge and creativity which exist within individuals in an organisation, and once harnessed, how to turn them into productivity, competitive advantage and bottom line performance.
Individual Benefits Of MindGenius Mind Mapping Software
As an individual working alone, you will find yourself using MindGenius business every day for those hundreds of everyday tasks such as report writing, preparing presentations, to-do lists, checklists and more. Regular use will save you hours of time and dramatically improve your output, not to mention your feeling of control and confidence.
Team Benefits Of MindGenius Mind Mapping Software
When used by the whole team, MindGenius will significantly improve collaboration and communication. With everyone mapping, the time savings and output improvements are multiplied. The team can also use MindGenius for those arduous one-off tasks and management techniques, such as SWOT analysis and group brainstorming sessions. This leads to breakthrough solutions, and greatly advances the plan through to action.
MindGenius Mind Mapping Software Processes
Within the MindGenius software you will find detailed, instructional white papers to assist with applying the product to these processes.
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Cause & Effect Analysis
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Decision Making Meeting Management
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The Three MindGenius Mind Mapping Software Essential Features
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Type and Return : When entering data you just need to use the Type-and-Return function to build your map. You can add information without interrupting your train of thought and without any unnecessary keystrokes.
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Drag & Drop : As you are typing or after you have exhausted your brain of all relevant thoughts you may realise there is a more logical position for certain items. Simply drag them to their new location using your mouse.
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Map Explorer : Business maps can grow extremely quickly. MindGenius allows you navigate through your map with ease, no matter how large, so you can focus in on an area of interest without the need for endless scrolling. Map Explorer allows you to switch easily between the big picture and the detail as you progress your task to completion.
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More Advanced Features Of MindGenius Mind Mapping Software
Map Layouts – change the layout of the map to suit your task in just one mouse click e.g. use the output tree layout for presentations.
Notes - can be used to add supporting information about a branch and make your thoughts clear to other users.
Attach files to your map – great for building up a knowledge base of information or linking reference material for a presentation.
Assign Actions – designate a branch as an action and send those actions instantly to MS Outlook task boxes, ensuring ideas are turned into results. Include dates and watch this information appear later when you export to MS Project.
Assign Resources – assign staff or resources to a particular tasks within the map
Create Resource Map - create an instant map of your data grouped by your previously assigned resources – great for workload management
Assign Categories – assign categories to particular tasks within the map
Create Category Map – create an instant map of your data grouped by your previously categories – great for grouping data after a brainstorm
Filter Map Data – Filter information which is only relevant to you
Query Builder – interrogate your data using any number of specific variables, and find only the information you are looking for. Great for finding the proverbial needle in a haystack.
Export Options – fast conversion of your map data into a number of other MS Office applications and to HTML, for instant reports, presentations, project plans and web files.