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Mind Manager Case Studies
AONASIA
As a Fortune 300 insurance brokerage that conducts risk assessment
and management for a wide range of industries from oil and agriculture
to space, aviation, and telecommunications, one of their chief assets
is intellectual capital. |
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FORTUNE 500
Some of the most important functions carried out by the 1400-person
IT team at this large American energy supply company are run on an
application managed by Timothy Bolwerk and his team of 15 developers.
His software runs the IT department\'s call center computers and
is used to manage the department\'s assets, including the annual
purchase of more than 9,000 PCs.
Since he began using Mindjet MindManager business mapping software,
Mr. Bolwerk has seen marked improvements in his ability to quickly:
- Take
and distribute meeting notes
- Brainstorm project ideas, then
put them into work breakdown structures
- Keep track of multiple
project details
- Communicate with teams and senior management
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DFS
In 2000, DFS Group, a leading luxury goods retailer with hundreds of
stores in major cities and international airports in North America
and the Asia/Pacific region, initiated a project to completely restructure
its IT services. |
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GENENCOR -
Todd Becker, who leads the Genencor International Delivery Systems Group, says
his company is constantly besieged by vendors offering huge, complex and expensive
solutions to the company information management needs.
But he says Genencor has come to realize that individual teams
and scientists are usually preferable to sophisticated software
packages when it comes to managing information.
What his staff members really need, he says, is a flexible tool
that is intuitive to use, allows them to quickly capture and organize
very complex information, and helps them communicate that information
to multiple audiences.<p>When Becker and his team began using
MindManager®, they knew they had found the right software application.
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Global Meeting Management
Complex ideas conveyed clearly and effectively across the globe
An organizational training consultant says that almost nothing
helps your business more than being able to tap into the creative
energy of your employees.
Debby McIsaacs job at Hewlett-Packard Consulting epitomizes the
challenges of the international marketplace.
As the manager of Global People Development, McIsaac is in charge
of training 6,000 consultants who live and work all across the
planet, speak scores of different languages, and operate in a multitude
of business cultures. |
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IBC
As president of an organization that represents more than 400 industrial and
bearing distributor locations that serve 87,000 customers across the United
States and Canada, Ed Sullivan travels a lot.
As such, he is always on the look out for tools to help him work
smarter and faster while on the go.
Tablet PCs, he says, immediately held out the promise of aligning
his computing needs with his working style.
Tablets presented a mobile platform he could comfortably use anywhere
from a Fortune 500 board room to an airplane seat.
But what really sold him on the value of the Tablet PC was the
first time he used MindManager for Tablet PC.
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Software Development
Knowledge-based companies should develop software in the same way that manufacturing
companies make widgets, says Bernard F. Clark, principal consultant at Scivian
LLC, a consulting company in the San Francisco Bay Area.
So when financial services giant Charles Schwab approached Clark
to help build a consistent, repeatable development process based
on Rational Software Corp.s leading Rational Unified Process? (RUP),
he recommended Mindjet MindManager business mapping tools. The
mapping tools, he knew, would greatly simplify the task of augmenting
RUP? to meet Schwabs needs. Clark estimates that use of MindManager
reduces to three weeks, from three months, the time it would otherwise
take to create a customized HTML view of RUP ? then saves at least
another two full days per project. |
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IT Information Management
As Executive Director of MAITI, the Maryland Applied Information Technology
Initiative, Ron Larsen leads a project to increase the number of information
technology graduates from eight state universities.
Larsen, who is also on the faculty of the Computer Science department
at the University of Maryland, says that to do his job well he
must stay current in a staggering number of technology-related
areas ? from information security, computer system interoperability,
and mobile ad hoc networking, to more arcane topics like the semantic
web and Internet-based ontologies.
Larsen must be conversant with these complex issues and, like
many executives, be ready to brief his own executives on them at
the drop of a hat. |
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Cursor Software - Implementation of CRM solutions with
MindManager
With the help of MindManager, CURSOR accelerates the implementation of CRM
systems and improves the quality of its projects
Andreas Lange, Consultant at CURSOR Software AG, leader in the
area of professional CRM solutions for energy providers, uses MindManager,
the visual software for brainstorming and planning, for the preparation
and introduction of CURSOR?s powerful CRM systems.
When developing and implementing new software in companies, a
detailed process analysis as well as comprehensive employee training
are of utmost importance.
Only when users see the benefits of the new software and when
its use becomes routine will implementation bring results and a
rapid return of investment.
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ShawCor Ltd - Oil/Gas Research & Development
MindManager has helped us both speed up and improve our research activities.
One of David Potters tasks as an R&D manager for ShawCor Ltd.
is to develop new generations of coatings capable of withstanding
the increased stresses encountered on modern pipelines due to higher
operating temperatures.
When he and his team began replacing traditional office tools
with Mindjet MindManager business mapping software, they found
that they could conduct these often complex and lengthy projects
a lot faster, easier, and smarter. |
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Consolidated Edison - Process Improvement
Use of Business Maps Increases Savings, Productivity and Employee Morale
In November 2001, facing a tight economy and with its rates capped
by government regulators, Consolidated Edison Company of New York,
Inc. (Con Edison) embarked on an effort to find cost savings by
looking closely at its own internal processes. The first step was
to create a Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) toolkit, implemented with
Mindjet MindManager? business mapping software. |
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SRK Consulting - Process Improvement
Win New Business by Thinking Fast
Jeff Parshley, a Principal at SRK Consulting, a global scientific
and engineering consultancy, remembers his first cold call into
the operator of one of the world\'s largest copper mines.
They expressed some interest in what we could do to help them
with a particular mine water treatment issue. But after our team
thought about the issue further, we decided that the solution was
not simply treating water coming out of a pipe.
MindManager? helped us wrap our arms around the larger question
of managing water across the entire mine site. We created a map
of our thinking, exported it as a Word document and PowerPoint?
presentation, and in two to four hours had the kind of proposal
that used to take us two full days to create. The client was ecstatic. |
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