Idea Mapping

I’ve been reporting on an unusual workshop I taught in February for the Larimer county Government in Fort Collins, CO.  Up to this point I’ve shared the results of the normal 2-day Idea Mapping Workshop. Today I’ll get to the 3rd day of advanced training, leadership, and planning for Larimer’s “Idea Mapping Creativity Group.”
On Day [...]

On March 9 & March 11, 2009 I began a series featuring the participants of a 3-day workshop at Larimer County Government in Fort Collins, Colorado. The uniqueness of this event will be explained in further detail in A later post, but for now I’ll continue to work through the second day.
One of the best [...]

On January 22, 2009 I did a webinar with Mindjet titled, “Increasing Productivity with Idea Mapping”. Lisa Fait was the MC and Michael Deutch was the interviewer. Learn more about Idea Mapping and see some really cool examples from mappers around the globe! Listen to the recorded version.

The number of images in this posting got a little long because of teaching two 2-day Idea Mapping Workshops back-to-back in Toronto at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. I’ll briefly summarize the photos from top down. The first part of the day starts out by testing participants’ belief systems around learning a new skill — in [...]

This idea map (#120 within this blog) is featured in today’s Mindjet Monthly Newsletter with a little twist. Mindjet added a video clip of my description of this application to their newsletter. We filmed this in January when I was in San Francisco for the VizThink conference. Below is the linear description of [...]

These two group maps were created last week by the participants of the Idea Mapping Certification Workshop. The topic was “Uses of Idea Maps.”
Each person started with an individual 4-minute brainstorm of all the uses they could think of for Idea Mapping. Then I broke everyone into two groups. The groups then merged all [...]

In my previous posting Philippe Boukobza shared an idea map summarizing the contents of my Idea Mapping book. Today’s map is also from Philippe and details chapter 9 of my book which covers the “Team Idea Mapping Method”. I have used this process successfully with many clients. It helps to gather a multitude of ideas [...]

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Congratulations to the 23 new idea-mappers, jugglers, learners, memorizers, visionaries, and drawers! Last week 23 ACH employees attended the 2-day Idea Mapping Workshop. Attached are a few photos from the class.

We were all entertained by Glenn’s dynamic “Make a Map” presentation.
I’ll share their portraits, idea maps, and stories in future blogs.