SMARTDRAW IN BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT:

Consultant Helps Clients Get Organized with SmartDraw

Dr. Juli Fellows has more than 20 years experience helping organizations become more effective. She specializes in customized organizational services, including meeting facilitation, conflict resolution, and strategic planning. Her impressive roster of clients includes more than 150 organizations from small companies to those with tens of thousands of employees.

Juli was looking for an easy way to create visual aids, materials, and other documents for training sessions. "I need to create everything from mind maps to Venn diagrams, Gantt charts, and all kinds of graphics to illustrate a group decision or process," said Juli.

She had experience using MindManager, which she liked, but it wasn't as interactive with MS Word^® and PowerPoint. Someone suggested she use SmartDraw, and she decided to give it a try.

"SmartDraw is much more versatile and comprehensive than the alternatives," she said. "Just looking at all the templates and symbols gives me ideas for new things to try."

Juli found that SmartDraw offers hundreds of SmartTemplates such as mindmaps, flowcharts, decision trees, calendars, project charts and more-each loaded with a command set specific to the diagram type. Users simply enter the information and SmartDraw does the rest-building the graphic automatically. In addition, the templates can be modified quickly and easily. Although Juli has no graphic design experience to speak of, she was able to create polished, professional graphics in just a few minutes.

"My clients are very impressed," she said. "They LOVE the visuals I'm able to create with SmartDraw. It makes their plans and decisions really come to life. Since a lot of my clients are nonprofits and medium-sized businesses, they aren't necessarily accustomed to having 'fancy' professional-looking graphics. And they have no idea how easy it is for me to create them!"

In addition, Juli loves how simple it is to import her SmartDraw diagrams into other programs. For example, she can save her SmartDraw creations to MS Word^®, PowerPoint, or PDF^® in a single click.

"It's really important for me to send clients diagrams in a format they can easily open and use," she said. "And because I can import into many accessible formats, they're able to use these diagrams and visuals in many different ways."

The bottom line?

"I am totally addicted to SmartDraw. It has really enhanced my creativity and productivity. Thanks for a fabulous product!"

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