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"A very neat tool for almost anything! I keep it open in the background all the time".
Anders Jangbrand
"A practical tool that guides where effort should be focussed as problem-solving proceeds." Vic Gee, Mind-Mapping.org
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"I really like your software. It is an easy to use tool for visualizing and applying all kinds of thinking methods. It has the potential to become my standard modelling software."
Florian Rustler
"Southbeach has an important plus - the models are readily understood by non-technical personnel"
Eric Singleton
Welcome
Southbeach Modeller is a general purpose tool for creative and analytical tasks such as innovation, problem solving, root cause analysis and change management.
It is used by management consultants, creativity experts, business analysts, engineers and school children alike. For projects of all kinds, large and small.
Just as a spreadsheet allows you to play 'what if?' with numbers, Southbeach lets you play with useful and harmful agents, goals and risks, issues, choices and actions. It can be used as a personal thinking tool, or as a collaborative consulting aide with clients.
The software includes a rules engine called 'MyCreativity'. You can develop hundreds of creative tools, applications or templates. Diagrams come to life, suggesting their own improvements or changes.
Use Southbeach to solve problems and invent the next generation of an idea, a design, a system, a process, a service, an architecture or an organization. The software is based on Southbeach Notation, a new diagramming style for situational improvement.
A universal visual language. Southbeach is used in fields as far-flung as business management, engineering, information technology, the law, global issues, education, marketing, health care and politics.
The approach fosters joined up thinking - situations that can only be fully understood by embracing multiple perspectives. Southbeach clarifies the problem, untangling conflicting or contradictory causes or implications.
Add perspectives to your models. What is useful? What is harmful? From which viewpoint? What does that imply? Where are the contradictions? What's missing? Use it for counseling, mentoring, team work and group facilitation. The software is efficient in a workshop or when working face-to-face with an expert.
Unlike freeform diagrams, every Southbeach model is consistent in approach and meaning. This fosters communication among team members, even when are from different disciplines. Southbeach lets marketing and engineering speak the same language!
Support for TRIZ
Southbeach builds on typical TRIZ and P-TRIZ notations. It has been developed to support a variety of applications where any TRIZ-like method is effective.
Powerful
The approach keeps you moving forward. Whether working through a personal life goal, developing a new idea at work or solving a complex engineering problem, Southbeach provides the visual elements you need.
Use Southbeach to pinpoint the way forward, identify root causes, remove inertia and work towards an actionable solution. The applications are endless.
Southbeach has been used to study future trends, manage IT transformation, align the views of stakeholders in a high pressure environment, carve out a clear business strategy and perform an incident investigation after an accident.
Visually eloquent for 'wicked' problems. Map out contradictory requirements in any technical or human system. Southbeach helps resolve organizational tensions and social dilemmas. Draw the required conceptual, functional, subject-verb-object or process maps of the 'big picture' without getting lost in details.
Use Southbeach to draw line and box models, including affinity diagrams, cause-effect, business motivation, concept maps, causal loop, sign diagrams, cognitive maps, polarity charts, force-field diagrams, influence maps, process flow, value chain, service blueprints and argument maps.
Using one tool and drawing style you can create many of the core diagrams expected by practitioners of business analysis, IT change management, Six Sigma, Lean thinking, root cause analysis (RCA), Theory of Constraints, TRIZ and futures studies. 'Grids' provide management consultant style overlays, including labelled boxes, pools, swimlanes and window pane models, e.g. SWOT, 9Boxes.
An ideal research tool. Keep notes with models and annotate or tag any visual element. Invoke web searches from relationships within the model. Drag and drop links from web pages. Copy and paste from a web browser to create new elements. Associate model elements to Web resources, related models and documents.
Share models with your colleagues. They receive all your notes, links, creativity and reports. File size is small and transfers easily in email or on the Web.
Feedback
Found a bug? Need a new feature? Let us know. Click Feedback button while using Modeller or write to feedback@southbeachinc.com.
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