Creating flowcharts, complex diagrams and presentations no longer requires MS Office applications like PowerPoint and Excel, since one can easily create any kind of diagram by using ready-made templates offered by web services. In previous posts we reviewed a few such services including Gliffy, Cacoo and Lucid Chart. Creately is another useful web service for creating …
Adobe Presenter comes with an Interactions menu that allows us to insert rich diagrams including animated charts and graphics, but also nice timelines for PowerPoint. Using Interactions Timelines you can make a simple but descriptive timeline in PowerPoint for your milestones and events. In order to insert a timeline in PowerPoint you will need to …
Affinity diagrams help in organizing large amount of data into their natural relationships thereby helping people in making a decision. It is also commonly known as KJ method named after a famous Japanese anthropologist Kawakita Jiro who made efforts to organize small bits of scattered data into a single, time saving affinity diagram. Information present …
Did you hear about InfoRapid KnowledgeMap, a professional knowledge and project management software? It is amongst one of the most effective complete knowledge management system suitable for drawing knowledge maps, organizational charts, decision tree and breakdown structures used to take ideas while brainstorming or generating XML files from structure diagrams. Importantly, this software can be …
If you are learning how to draw concentric circles in PowerPoint, then you may be interested to draw a shooting target using shapes. Shooting target can also be used in business to represent goals and other interesting topics like precision and accuracy. Concentric circles can be inserted using simple shapes. Drawing an Archery Target in …
McKinsey 7S model is a business diagram that involves seven interdependent factors which are categorized as either “hard” or “soft” elements. The seven elements in a 7S model includes: Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, Staff. Hard elements are easier to define or identify and management can directly influence them. These are strategy statements; organization charts and reporting lines; and formal processes …
Ansoff Product-Market Matrix is a matrix widely used as a business tool that helps businesses decide their product and market growth strategy. Ansoff’s product/market growth matrix suggests that a business’ attempts to grow depend on whether it markets new or existing products in new or existing markets. In PowerPoint we can design an Ansoff Matrix using …
Adding elaborate diagrams to a PowerPoint presentation can help better explain the dynamics of a project, as well as make the presentation more visually appealing. SimpleDiagrams is a great application that enables designing awesome hand drawn diagrams for PowerPoint presentations. Simple Diagrams is an Adobe AIR application and therefore you can install it on multiple …
Sankey diagrams are a specific type of flow diagram that are widely used in thermodynamics and material flow management. In this kind of diagrams, the width of the arrows is shown proportionally to the flow quantity. You can use this kind of Sankey Diagrams as a visualization of energy, material or cost transfers between processes. …
Mind maps are an effective way of jolting down your ideas in the form of diagrams and models. They can also be useful for creating business models, production process sketches and the like. In a previous post we brought you a collection of 5 best mind mapping applications that can help you create mind maps …
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