Idea Mapping

These Idea Mapping examples are from Dr. Tim Schweizer’s Principles of Management students. I have been blogging about Tim’s work with his students since October 2009 — shortly after he attended one of my Idea Mapping Workshops. Search this blog on “Luther College” for more examples. I will share more in the days that follow. Tim has developed a solid […]

Recently Certified Idea Mapping Instructor Patrizia Pfenninger used Idea Mapping to provide a logo and branding for the Northville financial advisors firm NastGroup Financial. You can see the results of her creativity and expert work at the new NastGroup Financial Advisors Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn pages. The response to the new logo and business cards […]

Kirk Garrett is the Director of Safety for Laurens Electric Cooperative, Inc. He created this idea map using MindManager to visually show others in the organization the process to follow when a safety incident occurs. His creative use of floating topics makes it easy to determine what to do during an accident or safety infraction. […]

Wanting to improve their annual strategic planning process, NIH’s (National Institutes of Health) Office of Extramural Programs in Bethesda, MD decided to learn and also incorporate Idea Mapping skills into planning for 2015. Here are several photos from the December 1st Idea Mapping Workshop I taught for NIH. Following my workshop this team implemented Idea […]

On Oct. 24-25 I was the kick-off presenter for the 7th Academy of Evaluation in Warsaw, Poland. For a video slide show of workshop highlights and more information about this 9-month program see my Nov. 1, 2014 posting. One of the objectives of this workshop is to teach civil servants not only the Idea Mapping […]

Ania Plawinska from Warsaw, Poland was one of over 739 participants on the Idea Mapping Webinar I gave on September 24, 2014 to the Global PMI Consulting Communities of Practice. At the end of the webinar I challenged the attendees to send me an idea map that I could post on my blog and we could […]

My September 4, 2014 posting was my first one about the recipes my husband (Kevin Nast) is grilling on his Big Green Egg. I am going to create an idea map or mind map of each of his recipes and eventually create one master idea map of all of them. This idea map was created […]

This is the first set of Idea Mapping examples from Dr. Tim Schweizer’s Winter 2013 Principles of Management students. I have been blogging about Tim’s work with his students since October 2009 — shortly after he attended one of my Idea Mapping Workshops. Search this blog on “Luther College” for more examples. Tim has developed a solid process to successfully […]

My husband’s new love over the last year has been his Big Green Egg. It is a ceramic cooker that functions as an oven, a smoker and a grill. The forums are adequate for getting ideas on prep, recipes, timing, internal meat temps and some photos. However the posts rarely include all of these. My […]

Meet James White. He uses Idea Mapping to amplify self-help reading. I’ll let him tell you the rest: “I’m a fan of self-help books but I often come across the problem that I can’t remember everything I read. To solve this problem, I started creating mind maps to outline important quotes, key pages that I […]