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"I have really enjoyed a new level of assurance that I can track and control the evolution of major projects."

Katherine Maughan
Founder and President, Maughan Design

"You’re limited only by your imagination what you can use it for. I couldn’t live without it, to be honest.”

Dave Rimmer
Managing Director, Unette Group

“MindGenius has become vital to the firm. Without this, we wouldn’t be in business today.”

Robert K. O'Dell
Co-Founder, Coyle Financial Counsel

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"MindGenius is very easy to use, very intuitive. It also lends itself to teamwork to analyze and resolve problems, and requires minimal training to be able to create results."

Amy Ross

Internal Consultant in Financial Services, United Kingdom

"MindGenius suits my needs best because it has a simple and easy to use 'no-frills' interface. I find it especially useful to be able to type a thought and then simply hit Return to start with the next thought."

Paula Adams

Consultant in Chemicals, Miami, Florida, USA

"MindGenius 20 lets us see where everything is at at any given moment. We can show our clients the same thing, making them aware what was happening and where it was going."

Roberta Locke

Small business owner, Melbourne, Australia

"MindGenius gives us a creative to practical edge with all 'Thoughts Becoming Things' projects with excellent integration and collaboration at all times."

Stephen Henderson

Director of Client Services, Human Resources, Bristol, United Kingdom

"MindGenius 20 is easy to use and export to a range of other software such as PowerPoint, Word, PDF, etc. I have used it for many years and rolled it out to colleagues and even to consultants working for me."

John Crawford

Managing Director, Airlines/Aviation

"MindGenius 20 is definitely improved to a high level of user friendliness, making also easy to export content to software such as the Microsoft Office suite."

François Deschamps

Enterprise user, Ontario, Canada

"MindGenius 20 is an ideal tool for personal use or small group projects, through it you can manage a brainstorm of ideas, opinions and points of view about a plan or project."

Linda Davies

Director, Analytics, Information Technology and Services

"MindGenius 20 has a fairly easy-to-use interface, since it allows us to use it without many problems. In addition, it has integrations with Microsoft Office."

Miguel Garrido

Mid-Market Manager, Connecticut, United States

"MindGenius is software that we have been using for quite some time, and it has resulted in enhancing the calibre of our work and has helped us in managing our projects on daily basis."

John Robertson

Small business owner, United Kingdom

“I tried several of the trial versions of competing software over a month’s time, and I found MindGenius to be the most versatile, the most intuitive by far, and just a delight to work with.”

Katherine Maughan

Founder and President, Maughan Design, Portland, Oregon, USA

“It was first shown to me by a colleague, and I’ve been absolutely sold on it ever since because of its ease of use and its flexibility. You’re limited only by your imagination what you can use it for. I couldn’t live without it, to be honest.”

Dave Rimmer

Managing Director, Unette Group, Crewe, United Kingdom

“MindGenius has become vital to the firm. Without this, we wouldn’t be in business today.”

Robert K. O’Dell

Co-Founder, Coyle Financial Counsel, Glenview, Illinois, USA

"MindGenius is truly unmatched as a project management tool."

Robert Taylor

Deputy Director, Business Services Nigeria, British Council, Manchester, United Kingdom

“MindGenius is proving to be an invaluable business tool. Employees are now noticeably more creative and productive.”

Robert Ordoyno

Business System Support Manager, British Energy, London, United Kingdom

“I have recommended MindGenius to many of my customers and associates because I get good results.”

Jayne Graham

Founder, 20:20 Consulting Limited, Gateshead, United Kingdom

“MindGenius energises the creative process of building sales presentations, and allows sales staff in the UK, Singapore and California to collaborate in virtual meetings.”

Tony White

Managing Director, Birch Worldwide, Wokingham, United Kingdom

“MindGenius has brought a level of efficiency and consistency to the way we plan and manage our projects, with low investment costs and easy and intuitive use.”

Mark Ritchie

Deputy Director and Head of Project Services, Information Services, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

“MindGenius allows us to more efficiently gather thoughts at the beginning of a project. It also ensures completeness of content in any project or document and to better define the scope of any project.”

Nathan Phillips

Assistant Electoral Officer, Elections New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

“I tried a number of mindmapping and project management tools, but I found them a bit clunky, or their functionality was too simple or too complex. MindGenius was really straightforward."

John Gerard

Managing Director, Hallmark, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

“MindGenius improves my efficiency not only by reducing the time it takes to get the job done by as much as 70%, but also the quality of the information is much better because of the fast and flexible way it’s captured.”

George Whyte

Programme Manager, Honeywell Control Systems Ltd., Newhouse, United Kingdom

“It is a gateway to collect thoughts and prepare presentations. I use the software daily, to start most pieces of work — excellent at extracting information out of my head and rearranging this information in a logical manner.”

Walter Crosbie

Operations Manager, Quality Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

“We are using MindGenius for mapping out processes for improvement. This has resulted in significant savings in man-hours compared to the conventional graphics software we would normally use for this purpose.”

Len Horn

Operations Quality Manager, Technip, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom

“I found MindGenius intuitive and easy to learn quickly. We were able to download it and hit the ground running right away.”

Todd Mellett

University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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Amy Ross
Internal Consultant in Financial Services, United Kingdom

What do you like best?
“The software is very easy to use, very intuitive. I don’t use it for mind mapping in the classical sense of memorization, but use it to clarify my ideas, write reports, prepare presentations and manage projects. It also lends itself to teamwork to analyze and resolve problems. It requires minimal training to be able to create results.”
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
“MindGenius is providing us with an easy to use, full featured project management tool which is easy to learn. Note taking in meetings can be used to generate action plans (and even sent out as tasks within Outlook).”

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Paula Adams
Consultant in Chemicals, Miami, Florida, USA

What do you like best?
“I like mind mapping. I take notes using mind mapping. I run meetings using mind mapping. I run simple projects using mind mapping. I have tried many different mind mapping software. MindGenius suits my needs best because it has a simple and easy to use ‘no-frills’ interface. I find it especially useful to be able to type a thought and then simply hit Return to start with the next thought. Most other mind mapping software require a conscious effort to click on a little tab on the selected box in order to generate another box — too time consuming. I also find the export functions, especially to PowerPoint and Word useful and simple to use.”
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
“The teams I lead are mostly Chinese with limited English ability. I find it very useful to run project meetings with MindGenius projected onto a big screen. It is very easy for the participants to see the overall structure of the issues and the tasks which are assigned to themselves and to the other team members. Since I started using this technique some years ago, efficiency has increased dramatically.”

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Roberta Locke
Small business owner, Melbourne, Australia

What do you like best?
“Loved how we were able to keep all of our projects in line and flowing well at the one place. Not only were we able to see where everything was at, at any given, but we were also able to show our clients the same thing, making them aware of what was happening and where it was going.”
“Some of our clients loved the system so much that they then also started using it themselves.”
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
“Keeping tasks on track was something we solved, as with this system we can always tell where everything is at. The benefit we realized we have with this is also being able to share statuses with clients and invite them to contribute to projects by adding them to a project.”

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Stephen Henderson
Director of Client Services, Human Resources, Bristol, United Kingdom

What do you like best?
“What I like is that we can take clients from initial meeting — to project brief — to costing and project planning — to simulations — to sign off — and production. Then we can report — manage the project — handle exceptions — stay on track — modify — keep everyone up to date. Frankly, MindGenius gives us a creative to practical edge with all ‘Thoughts Becoming Things’ projects with excellent integration and collaboration at all times.”
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
“We used MindGenius to capture and create structured web solutions from meetings. We use the note taking, disassembly of thoughts and reconstruction of mind maps to literally create blueprints and wireframes within hours of meeting conclusions. Then using the maps to move directly to costing and project plans is unbelievable. Literally saving us tens of thousands of dollars in man-hours and more importantly helps us create products faster and better than we could have imagined.”

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John Crawford
Managing Director, Airlines/Aviation

What do you like best?
“MindGenius is easy to use, easy to change and easy to export to a range of other software such as PowerPoint, Word, PDF, etc. I have used it for many years and rolled it out to colleagues and even to consultants working for me. It has amazing flexibility from the suite of templates or from using it freehand, which is what I normally do. It saves time and money, but above all it delivers solutions which may not have been apparent at the beginning of a project.”
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
“I’ve used this primarily in approaching business efficiency exercises but also when dealing with expansive operations projects, as the software captures the issues and they can be easily linked to better understand the ‘big picture’.”

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François Deschamps
Enterprise user, Ontario, Canada

What do you like best?
“MindGenius is definitely improved to a high level of user friendliness, making also easy to export content to software such as the Microsoft Office suite, and last but not least having easy-to-use analytical capabilities and reporting functions.”
“As it is really easy to use, it also enables quick collaboration between cross-functional teams or between remote locations.”
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
“I primarily use MindGenius to manage my ideas and structure brainstorming activities, either in small groups or in larger teams. The product saves time and thus money in a lot of collaborative sessions. By setting standard ways to work and standard ways to represent the results, it enables also work between cross-cultural teams. In large teams (> 10 people), it reduces to 1-2 hours the lead time to being operational in large work sessions or dedicated workshops.”

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Linda Davies
Director, Analytics, Information Technology and Services

What do you like best?
“It’s a tool to better manage your projects. You can use it to organize your assigned tasks and activities on a daily basis. It allows you to work in three stages to carry out your project. The first is to set the objectives to be treated and brainstorm ideas, points of view and opinions to know if there is any change or modification; the second, assemble as a kind of template or diagram stating the objectives and what will be carried out; and finally start the project execution.”
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
“It is a very useful tool in our organization, which is why we implement it in almost all departments. Through this tool we manage all our projects that we want to implement. MindGenius allows us to manage from the moment we have the idea to the ideas and strategies that must be applied for it to be completed. With this tool the organization can plan meetings between the members of a team to give opinions and points of view that they wish to carry out or to make some change, modification of strategies to achieve the development of the project together.”

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Miguel Garrido
Mid-Market Manager, Connecticut, USA

What do you like best?
“One of the things that I like the most about MindGenius is that it has a fairly easy-to-use interface, since it allows us to use it without many problems. In addition, it has integrations with Microsoft Office, which is something very excellent since it simplifies the process — since Office is used in all departments of the company. The creation of maps has no complications since it is simple, powerful and easy to use. MindGenius also has a wide variety of predesigned templates that allow us to adapt our work in a simple and creative way.”
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
“MindGenius has allowed us to develop all kinds of projects within the company, generating a number of ideas to apply to all our projects so that in this way it would be something new, innovative and original.”

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John Robertson
Small business owner, United Kingdom

What do you like best?
“MindGenius is software that we have been using for quite some time, and it has resulted in enhancing the calibre of our work and has helped us in managing our projects on a daily basis. It has the capacity to export files easily to other software like Office and PowerPoint, and has made our work very quick and prompt. MindGenius is also serving us with its exceptional features in the costing and planning of projects.”
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
“MindGenius is nextgen software, supporting us in managing our projects with much effectiveness and helping us in enhancing our productivity. Its integration with Microsoft Office is highly appreciated, and its features like costing and project planning are very much beneficial for us. Using it with our clients has become very transparent, and we can keep them up to date related to project progress.”

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Katherine Maughan
Founder and President, Maughan Design, Portland, Oregon, USA

“I tried several of the trial versions of competing software over a month’s time, and I found MindGenius to be the most versatile, the most intuitive by far, and just a delight to work with.”
“I have had better focus on implementation and less necessity to concentrate on designing/planning, as that part of the process is now so efficient. I have really enjoyed a new level of assurance that I can track and control the evolution of major projects. I feel empowered.”

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Dave Rimmer
Managing Director, Unette Group, Crewe, United Kingdom

“Our planning was all being done in Word. Every time you wanted to move things and do a ‘what if,’ someone had to make multiple manipulations in their head and then try to change the plan, and then change it again — there was just no flexibility. We need to be able to do ‘what ifs’ and then be clear about what the impact of that change is. In MindGenius, it’s very easy to drag and drop and organise your thoughts in a logical manner.”
“We’ve got a tool we can really use to plan the production and sequence it in a better way and make it visible. So when the production manager isn’t about, people can get on and plan the next job for themselves. We’ve reduced downtime by about 15%.”
“I’ve used MindGenius extensively to write a one-page business plan for the year. I’d have on there the ‘vital few’ — the most important things I think we have to deliver. Those may be: increase sales by 20%, launch the new website, introduce a new range of packaging, introduce employee survey or create development plans.”
“In MindGenius, I’d then branch out from each of those to create subsections. So, if we are going to increase sales by 20%, where is it going to come from? It might be a new range of products. It might be to grow business among current key customers by 10%. I can then allocate the tasks to individuals and what the timescales are for those.”
“Once I’ve assigned resources to all the tasks, I can filter by resource to make sure the work is effectively distributed. When you organise by resource in MindGenius, you can quickly see who has the most work. When you look at the results you could be saying, ‘Hold on, I’m overloading this person.’ So then I ask myself: ‘Who else can do that?’”
“It was first shown to me by a colleague and I’ve been absolutely sold on it ever since because of its ease of use and its flexibility. You’re limited only by your imagination what you can use it for. I couldn’t live without it to be honest. I use it more than Excel, Word or PowerPoint. Normally, when I show it to other people they say ‘can we have it?’”
“It works the way your brain is wired and you can pretty much take it wherever you want it to go. The power is immense — it’ll blow you away.”

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Robert K. O'Dell
Co-Founder, Coyle Financial Counsel, Glenview, Illinois, USA

“We believe MindGenius is a major contributor to our client acquisition.”
“MindGenius has become vital to the firm. Without this, we wouldn’t be in business today.”
“Our firm uses MindGenius to identify goals, values and objectives, as well as capture, structure and document financial data. All with the aim of improving the client engagement process.”
“It has certainly been successful in giving the firm a competitive edge and generating new business. We believe MindGenius is a major contributor to our client acquisition.”

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Robert Taylor
Deputy Director, Business Services Nigeria, British Council, Manchester, United Kingdom

“MindGenius is truly unmatched as a project management tool.”
“MindGenius is the perfect partner for me. It allows me to scope, plan, monitor and report on projects quickly and effectively. It works perfectly and allows me to cover the big picture and the detail as I need to. Its hierarchical nature means that I can switch from high level to detail very quickly and easily, allowing me to orient myself and to drill down to where attention is needed. For a complex and dispersed operation, it is a superb tool for managing multiple projects.”
“MindGenius provides me with the ideal platform to coordinate multiple projects. It allows me to switch from the big picture to the lowest level of detail I need, with one click, at any time. It works for the entire end-to-end process, from scoping the project and building the structure, to really effective task-tracking, to providing a strong record for reporting — at any level I need. With the complexity I face in my role, I can’t imagine working without it.”
“MindGenius is my trusted partner at work, allowing me to manage a really wide range of projects and tasks. It keeps my productivity at an optimum level. I can’t imagine trying to hold down a heavy and complex workload without it.”

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Robert Ordoyno
Business System Support Manager, British Energy, London, United Kingdom

“MindGenius is proving to be an invaluable business tool. Employees are now noticeably more creative and productive.”
“In my opinion, its greatest strength is the ability to cater for the normal process of continuous review by automatically resizing maps to accommodate revisions. I would recommend MindGenius to others without hesitation.”

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Jayne Graham
Founder, 20:20 Consulting Limited, Gateshead, United Kingdom

“Often my customers have lots of ideas but no clear path forward. I use MindGenius to help me to pull all of their ideas and thoughts together in one place, to categorise opportunities, to find clarity.”
“I have recommended MindGenius to many of my customers and associates because I get good results.”

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Tony White
Managing Director, Birch Worldwide, Wokingham, United Kingdom

“MindGenius energises the creative process of building sales presentations, and allows sales staff in the UK, Singapore and California to collaborate in virtual meetings.”
“Using MindGenius, the sales team can concentrate on relevant ideas and themes and leave the formatting of the presentation until the key messages and content are complete. This visual process fuels creativity and means the team can generate ideas before deciding on the final content to be turned into the formal presentation.”
“Many team members also prefer to present to the team and clients directly from MindGenius and find that clients are intrigued by the different approach. This method allows client comments and observations to be captured on the map so everyone is clear on objectives and requirements.”

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Mark Ritchie
Deputy Director and Head of Project Services, Information Services, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

“MindGenius provides an ideal platform for members of the Project Services team to brainstorm and capture requirements for large and complex projects, including initial stakeholder requirements gathering right at the outset.”
“The team finds the MindGenius Gantt View extremely useful for seamlessly taking their projects from the planning stage on to the scheduling stage. This acts as a platform to go on to manage and review progress and status of each component part and every activity of each project.”
“MindGenius has brought a level of efficiency and consistency to the way we plan and manage our projects, with low investment costs and easy and intuitive use. We have over 100 people interacting with MindGenius in their project work.”

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Nathan Phillips
Assistant Electoral Officer, Elections New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

“MindGenius allows us to more efficiently gather thoughts at the beginning of a project. It also ensures completeness of content in any project or document and to better define the scope of any project.”
“For the provincial general elections, tasks for all staff members are identified in a series of brainstorming sessions and consolidated in one large mind map. This map is then exported to MS Project for managing the election process.”
“MindGenius is a great way of capturing information from our brainstorming sessions.”
“It allows you to develop a higher quality product with fewer resources and less frustration!”

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John Gerard
Managing Director, Hallmark, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

“The pressure to provide more for less is a fact of life for us and many other organisations today. I wanted to look closely at what we do, and identify ways we could improve our processes as well as diversify into areas where we had not traditionally operated.”
“We started a program of process improvement. MindGenius is ideal for going through an initial creative stage and then being able to easily move into the action planning and project management stages.”
“I’d tried a number of mind-mapping and project management tools, but I found them a bit clunky, or their functionality was too simple or too complex. MindGenius was really straightforward, with mapping and project management operating in tandem. The support was terrific, really fast and helpful, and the price was what I needed if I wanted to roll out for managers across the organisation.”
“MindGenius grows on you. If I have something I need to think about or plan, a meeting or a new problem I’ve not faced before, the first thing I fire up is MindGenius, blast out my thoughts and organise myself properly.”

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George Whyte
Programme Manager, Honeywell Control Systems Ltd., Newhouse, United Kingdom

“I cannot remember a new application that made such a positive impact on my day-to-day work. The benefits for me are the ability to capture information instantly and move through processes rapidly.”
“As a Programme Manager I need to create a variety of charts that show organisational and individual relationships, project related task data and information flows.”
“I have found MindGenius to be of great benefit in meetings, technical visits to other Honeywell locations and customer visits.”
“MindGenius comes into its own because it is based around mind-mapping. As a practical example of its use, I attended a customer meeting a couple of weeks ago and throughout the meeting took copious notes around the agenda and topics of discussion. MindGenius is very easy to use, and the three windows of the screen — map, explorer and notes — make it ideal for navigating back and forth.”
“After the meeting I added more information, actions, dates and resources, sent all actions through the intranet and saved the map as a Word document with no greater effort than two clicks of a mouse — that is the power of MindGenius.”
“MindGenius improves my efficiency not only by reducing the time it takes to get the job done by as much as 70%, but also the quality of the information is much better because of the fast and flexible way it’s captured.”
“The only limitation I have now is I can’t type fast enough. The fact that you can save your map in a variety of formats also makes it more attractive as the primary input application. I seldom open Word, Project or PowerPoint without having started out in MindGenius.”
“This software is one of the true ‘office revolutions.’ I could not envisage anyone who could not improve how they work or indeed their personal lives using MindGenius.”

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Walter Crosbie
Operations Manager, Quality Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

“It is a gateway to collect thoughts and prepare presentations. I use the software daily, to start most pieces of work — excellent at extracting information out of my head and rearranging this information in a logical manner.”
“I’m very impressed with the export to MS PowerPoint and Word. This saves me time and effort. Personally, I find MindGenius very easy and quick to use, and all with minimal or no training!”
“We have found MindGenius to be very intuitive and easy to learn. It is an extremely user-friendly system and I regularly recommend the product to others.”

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Len Horn
Operations Quality Manager, Technip, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom

“A tool of many uses. As part of our Business Improvement Initiative, our change team workshops have been using MindGenius to capture real time (pc/pc projector) brain dumping, and the interface with Microsoft Project has allowed scheduling of actions at the touch of a button with minimum adjustment.”
“We have also used MindGenius to graphically depict hierarchical organisation structures and interfaces on a recent tender to a major client. We are using MindGenius for mapping out processes for improvement.”
“This has resulted in significant savings in man-hours compared to the conventional graphics software we would normally use for this purpose.”

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Todd Mellett
University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

(Note: These comments were written while Todd was a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania — and a member of a team that built a racing car from scratch three times to compete in a string of international competitions. He’s currently in Program Management at Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan, USA.)
“My background was in industrial engineering, so I was very process oriented. When I joined the team I noticed that it was disorganised. Communication wasn’t great and there wasn’t a great deal of organisation. The design and manufacturing people weren’t working together.”
“At the time the team president came to me to ask what we could do to make things more efficient. I looked at various software packages, and found that MindGenius did everything we were looking for — to plan and organise big processes and develop well-thought-through Gantt charts.”
“I found MindGenius intuitive and easy to learn quickly. We were able to download it and hit the ground running right away.”
“A lot of software packages have cumbersome user interfaces that are difficult to work with and that take a lot of time to learn, even if you are very capable. We needed something that we could start using right away. MindGenius gave us that ability. We could just get it and go. And I liked the level of support that came with it.”
“The software is also great as it teaches people who don’t normally appreciate these things the value of organised operations, and it helps make the design and manufacturing teams work together with one seamless schedule and one seamless project.”
“MindGenius really sparked an emphasis of the whole team to get organised and meet deadlines in an efficient manner. There was no more redoing work. Everything was planned and organised correctly. This represented a huge change in terms of the attitude of the team to project management.”
“We started writing down every component system in the car, from the high level down, breaking the car into as many sub-systems as possible. We then used the Gantt chart feature to map out how long it would take to create each component, and what components were needed before others.”
“We were then able to create a critical path, to understand what systems, and which had the longest lead time. MindGenius did a really good job of illustrating these.”

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