Idea Mapping

This idea map sure looks different from the original one created by hand! On January 28, 2011 I shared the story about how Siri Zimmerman and I used idea mapping to plan the content of a 2-hour session I will deliver for around 150 people at a conference in March sponsored by the Diabetes Association […]

I met Siri Zimmerman when she was 8 years old. She was the daughter of one of my co-workers at EDS, Marty Zimmerman, who is now the author of three books. Siri (now 25) and I met for coffee this past weekend to discuss the possibility of me speaking at the upcoming conference she is […]

Teiji Nakano is the author of a book titled How to Increase Business Productivity with MindManager and it is available at Amazon.jp.  He is an expert in the use of MindManager and created this branding Idea Map as a gift to me. You gotta love the Mt. Fuji background. In the MindManager version he has […]

This standard activity in my Idea Mapping Workshops takes a different twist during my annual workshop in Poland. Normally each participant reads an article summarizing Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and then draws an idea map showing the key ideas from the document. The purpose of this activity is two-fold: 1. To […]

This is the third year in a row that I was invited to come to Warsaw by Dr. Karol Olejniczak who is an Assistant Professor at the  University of Warsaw. He runs a program called EUROREG — an Academy of Evaluation which is financed and sponsored by Polish Ministry of Regional Development and the European […]

Planning for a new baby can be overwhelming, but this Idea Map has helped Wayne Chan get his arms around the many things he and his wife will need to prepare for. Last week I taught a 2-day public Idea Mapping Workshop at the Mindjet Offices in San Francisco. During one of the activities participants […]

In the October 23, 2009 posting I first introduced readers of this blog to Dr. Tim Schweizer from Luther College in Decorah, IA. He attended one of my public Idea Mapping workshops in August of 2009 and has been experimenting using Idea Mapping with his college students in a variety of ways ever since. Search […]

Idea Mapping has been helping Luther College students since the fall 2009 semester. This is the first example from the fall 2010 classes. You can search on this blog for “Luther College” to find over 25 other examples from last school years’ students. Again Dr. Tim Schweizer spent one 60-minute class teaching them the concepts […]

This Corporate Vision Map was created by CIMI (Certified Idea Mapping Instructor) Debbie Showler as an Idea Map to visually represent the core values, behaviors, and business of this organization within a large IT Company. At the time Debbie was working for a division of this US-based company in Oshawa, Ontario. Debbie has created thousands […]

Idea Mapping helps three final Luther College students. The first posting for this Spring’s Idea Mapping Experiment at Luther College was May 19 where there is more background. Now get ready for Part 7! This will wrap up all of the examples from Dr. Schweizer’s students. Next examples will be from the Fall 2010 class. […]