Idea Mapping

This posting is the second in what is going to be a fascinating experiment this year with students at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Last week’s posting first introduced this series. Now let’s put it into context. Dr. Tim Schweizer teaches “Principles of Management”. He felt like teaching Idea Mapping to his students was such […]

Dr. Tim Schweizer is a Professor of Management at Luther College in Decorah, IA. He is also a Certified Trainer: Six Thinking Hats™, Lateral Thinking™ (Edward de Bono tools), and Former Vice President, Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies. One of the courses he is currently teaching is Principles of Management.  It is required for the […]

Billy Waters from Ireland first contributed to this blog April 3, 2008. Today he is sharing his second idea mapping example which is a summary of the book titled “The 4-Hour Workweek” by Timothy Ferriss.  To see more of Billy’s examples check out his Flickr Photostream and Evernote for more book summaries and Evernote for […]

ABLE Training Systems, LLC (founded by Michael Panebianco) is dedicated to bringing conflict, confidence, and communications training to life. I met Mike when he attended one of my Idea Mapping Workshops in december of 2007. Mike creates training experiences that build strategies and tactics for coping with conflict.  From mental awareness, to emotional conditioning, to […]

Brian Sodl attended last month’s Idea Mapping Workshop. During that session he shared this idea map created using MindManager to tell us many of the different ways he uses the software. This is a collapsed version, so if you would like the original MindManager file, email me at info(at)ideamappingsuccess(dot)com.

Mark Slatin advises corporations, organizations and individuals on how to grow their business by building trusting relationships.  He is the president of True Colors Consulting LLC. Typically clients will go through some or all phases of his service offerings – from consulting, training, coaching and speaking (not necessarily in that order).  He’s built components of […]

On September 16, 2007 I posted the first idea map in this series of which these now make the total of 11 idea maps on this topic.  As part of the Idea Mapping Workshop participants read an article that summaries Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and then create an idea map […]

On September 17, 2009 I provided a 90-minute webinar for the VizThinkU community. This is the longest and most activity-driven webinar I’ve ever done to date. This idea map is the overview of the session. If you listen to this webinar, be prepared with markers or pen and paper so that you can participate in […]

In the previous posting I shared some name tents created by participants in the 2-day public Idea Mapping Workshop I taught two weeks ago. Since no one was able to successfully guess the names I’ll tell you. The first name was Carol Ann. She had a bunch of Christmas carols minus the “s” followed by […]

In the January 26, 2009 posting one of Tim Schweizer’s idea maps was featured along with a mention about the above map being featured in the Mindjet Newsletter. Tim is the Professor of Management at Luther College. This idea map and the story only stayed on the Mindjet Newsletter site for 4 weeks. I am […]