The days of "hit and miss" planning are over. You need to state the goal, create the plan, and establish the method before starting the action. Use 7MP-PC IV and take the guess work, and the rework, out of any project.

By using the 7 Management and Planning Tools, you can take a seemingly complex, abstract idea and narrow it down to an understandable, orderly plan of action, considering the time to complete, the specific tasks to undertake, and the order in which to complete them.

Use 7MP-PC IV to create:

• Affinity Diagram The Affinity Diagram allows you to take what initially seemed a large unrelated grouping of information and organize it in such a way as to easily recognize new trends or patterns of information.

   

• Interrelationship Digraph The Interrelationship Digraph can take ideas from the Affinity Diagram, or any other source, and show how they relate to one another. Often used as a tool to determine the underlying causes of situations, an Interrelationship Digraph can easily allow you to see which causes are fundamental to the solution.

   

• Prioritization Matrix The Prioritization Matrix take the specific assignments, tasks, or options, and, through a systematic procedure, assigns weighted measures. These measures are then used to prioritize and determine the relative importance of each.

   

• Matrix Diagram The Matrix Diagram helps to analyze the correlation between two or more related groups of ideas while at the same time showing the strength of that correlation.

   

• Process Decision Program Chart (PDPC) Used when the steps of a proposed process need to be analyzed, the PDPC Chart shows the "what ifs" and the possible countermeasures if a situation does occur.

   

• Tree Diagram Once the important issues are apparent, the Tree Diagram is used to stratify ideas by increasing the level of detail. The Tree Diagram helps take broad goals or ideas and narrow them into specific assignments, tasks, or options.

   

• Tree Diagram This final management tool takes a known process, organizes all the steps, and determines the critical path and the time to accomplish all the tasks and subtasks.

   

To make 7MP-PC IV even easier...

Since the 7MP tools are often used as a series of steps leading to the final resolution of a problem, 7MP-PC IV can easily derive one chart from another, avoiding unnecessary data input. The user has complete flexibility to choose which items are included in the new chart.

7MP-PC IV's advanced help system gives detailed descriptions of each of the 7MP tools, helping decided which tool is best for the current situation, and then guides you effortlessly through the formation of the chart.

• Choose from a variety of colors, fonts, lines, arrows, and symbols.
• Create charts using a combination of either text, symbols, or "Drag and Drop."
• Offers multiple levels of zoom, alignment tools, and "print to fit."
• Undo Option to "undo" up to the last ten changes.

System Requirements:

• An IBM PC or 100% compatible computer with a i386 or better processor, and at least 4MB of RAM.
• A hard drive with at least 2.5 MB of free disk space.
• A graphics card compatible with Microsoft Windows (VGA or better is recommended)
• DOS version 3.1 or later and Microsoft Windows version 3.1 or later.
• A pointing device, such as a mouse, is recommended, but not required.