EdrawMax Supports Strategic Planning

Open and clear communication is the key to keep every stakeholder on the same page. Joe has tried written plans and explanations. However, due to the different backgrounds of investors, group heads, and team leads, it was a tough call to keep everyone in the loop at the same level of understanding. EdrawMax offers many different types of visual representations of plans, data, and ideas. Using mindmaps, flowcharts, PERT charts, SWOT analysis, and timelines has helped this cause effectively. They can create high-level diagrams for less technical audiences and a more detailed version for the people with the required knowledge base. It only takes minutes to create a professional quality diagram in EdrawMax so the overhead is minimum. EdrawMax promotes a better stakeholder understanding of the strategy by visualizing the plans. These visuals illustrate the critical elements and their relationship with each other through symbols and icons.

EdrawMax positively influences team collaboration in various aspects. Joe uses its cloud storage for centralizing his strategic plans, project documents, and communications plans. It streamlines the sharing process because the relevant team members have access to the documents. They can access, review and update them with permissions granted to them. Team communication has also been streamlined after adopting the EdrawMax cloud services. Joe can now write comments about the document right there in the cloud file. The relevant personnel can see it and edit it accordingly. It minimized the number of communication tools like email, texts, etc. All the correspondence remains in one place and is easily trackable.

Joe reinforces individual and team efforts by clearly clarifying roles and responsibilities for every team member. Properly documented reporting structures, mapping workflows and timelines support the continuous performance reviews. Everybody knows what is expected from them at a particular point in time. The managers can quickly compare the performance with the required threshold and find out how the implementation is going on. Project timelines, work breakdown structures, performance prism, etc support performance reviews. Joe believes in effective communication and insight into company goals, expectations, strategy, action plans, and the results. He makes sure that everyone on the team has the foundation bundle of company strategy planning documents and project documents. They use visual representation for these documents to give a simple, understandable, and brief introduction for everyone.