Welcome

Southbeach Modeller is software for modeling, innovation and problem solving. It is based on Southbeach Notation, a visual analysis and diagramming style that appeals to creative consultants, analysts, business people, engineers and scientists working in many different industries.

The notation fosters joined up thinking - systems or situations that can only be fully understood by embracing multiple perspectives and disciplines. Southbeach helps to clarify a problem, untangling conflicting causes and effects so as to generate innovative outcomes and suggested solution directions.

A universal visual language. Use Southbeach to model any complex system, process, situation, scenario or trend in fields such as business, technology, the law, global issues, education, marketing, the service economy, health care, the green agenda and politics. Add perspectives to your models. What is useful? What is harmful? From which viewpoint?

Southbeach is both a personal thinking tool and a collaborative consulting tool. The approach is oriented towards counseling, mentoring, team work and group facilitation. The software is designed for efficient use in a workshop setting or when working intensively face-to-face with an expert.

Unique license

You may include a copy of the free Southbeach Modeller within any other commercial product or service that you provide to your own customers. For example, a consulting firm working with its clients.

Powerful

Visually eloquent for 'wicked' problems. Southbeach helps resolve complex organizational tensions and social dilemmas. Map out contradictory requirements in any technical or human system. Draw conceptual, functional or process maps. The applications are endless: productivity improvement, quality, corporate sustainability, service design, value stream mapping or resource utilization.

The technique keeps you moving forward. Whether working through a personal life goal, a new business idea, studying societal trends, a complex technical challenge, or coping with a difficult change management project at work, Southbeach diagrams provide the visual elements you need to pinpoint root causes of inertia, unlock innovation and work towards actionable solutions.

Use Southbeach to draw cause-effect diagrams, concept maps, causal loop diagrams, sign diagrams, cognitive maps, polarity charts, force-field diagrams, influence diagrams, flows, affinity diagrams, SIPOC, argument maps, dialogue maps, SWOT charts, TRIZ 9-boxes and numerous ad-hoc window-pane diagrams.

Flexible grid, pool and swim lane overlays provide management consultant style overlays. Unlike Visio or PowerPoint diagrams, every Southbeach model is consistent in approach and meaning and so can be used to derive creative insights.

Using one tool and drawing style you can substitute for many other commonly needed diagrams in methods such as six sigma, lean, DfSS, theory of constraints and TRIZ.

An ideal research tool. Keep notes with models and annotate any visual element. Invoke web searches from the names of elements of the diagram. Copy and paste from the web browser to create model elements. Link elements to web pages. The in-built web-browser is convenient, keeping everything together in one place.

Share a model or model set with your colleagues. They get all your notes and links. Model file size is small and transfers easily in email or on the Web. New collaborative features are planned for future release.

Interested in TRIZ?

Southbeach Modeller builds on typical TRIZ notations. It has been developed to support a variety of applications where TRIZ or similar methods are effective.

What do you need?

Found a bug? Need a new feature? Let us know. Click on the Feedback button in the tool or write to feedback@southbeachinc.com.

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