Idea Mapping

These Idea Maps are the 13th and 14th examples in this year’s experiment following students at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. The October 23, 2008 posting first introduced this series and the October 28, 2009 post puts this experiment in context. Read those postings for background. Today’s idea mapping examples come from students Abby Switzer […]

These Idea Maps are the 11th and 12th examples in this year’s experiment following students at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. The October 23, 2008 posting first introduced this series and the October 28, 2009 post puts this experiment in context. Read those postings for background. Today’s idea mapping examples come from students Katie Campbell […]

Last night on the Rachel Maddow show, Rachel stated people will see this example of the Afghanistan battle plan (known as the “Planistan”) as genius because the entire plan is shown visually on one piece of paper. So Idea Mapping and visual thinking have made it to the White House! This Joint Chiefs of Staff […]

Tammy Sookthis has participated in both the 2-day Idea Mapping Workshop and the 1-day Memory/Speed Reading Workshop offered through ACH (subsidiary of Ford). Last year she sent me this series of idea maps which she created to get organized for her Black Friday shopping spree. The original copy has everything you see on 1 sheet […]

These Idea Maps are the 9th and 10th examples in this year’s experiment following students at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. The October 23, 2008 posting first introduced this series and the October 28, 2009 post put this experiment in context. Read those postings for background. Today’s idea mapping examples come from students Caroline Feeney […]

This Idea Map is the eighth example and the fourth posting in this year’s experiment we are following with students at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. The October 23, 2008 posting first introduced this series and the October 28, 2009 post put this experiment in context. Read those postings for background. Today’s idea mapping example […]

This is the third posting and the sixth and seventh Idea Mapping examples in this year’s experiment with students at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Last week’s posting first introduced this series and Wednesday’s post put this experiment in context. Read those postings for background. Today’s idea mapping examples come from Abby Switzer (top) and […]

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 […]