Resource CSoftware Support

There are a variety of software packages available that can help with mapping. Most of these packages are designed to deal with “mind maps” that are not created with strategic management in mind. However, one software package—Decision Explorer—has been used extensively with teams of senior and middle managers for strategy making. Decision Explorer captures means-ends relationships, enables the visual representation (picture) of a causal map to be continuously adapted to reflect the changes in thinking, and supports a variety of analyses of the structure of the maps created. All of the computer-generated maps reproduced in this book have been created using Decision Explorer.

Decision Explorer is a visual interactive ...

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