Idea Mapping

Larisa Brigevich is a Certified Idea Mapping Instructor and the Director of Franklin Templeton’s Global Research Library. She has proved that her team’s explosion of new ideas has a direct correlation to their participation in the Idea Mapping workshop she taught them through last year. Read her full story. Bookmark us!Close Bookmark and Share This Page […]

Kaizad Irani, Certified Idea Mapping Instructor, is back again with one of his masterpieces.  Kaizad Irani is the Program Director for Horticulture and Landscape Design at Parkland College in Champaign, Illinois. All of his contributions have been outstanding. Search this blog on “kaizad” and see more of his beautiful idea maps. This is one of […]

I first introduced Melinda Dang in a December 2008 posting. Since then Melinda has contributed numerous idea maps to this blog on topics like using Idea Maps to study for AP Physics, Spanish, studying for the SAT’s and other subjects. These examples are the idea maps she created to finish out the year and study […]

Liz Kimura is the only Certified Idea Mapping Instructor in South America. She has three upcoming events that you won’t want to miss if you live in and around Brazil. Liz is one of the best Mind Mapping and Idea Mapping Instructors in the world, and her participants are more successful as a result of […]

Yesterday I returned from teaching an Idea Mapping Workshop at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) in Toronto. One of the participants was Dan Houle who is the VP of Investment Operations. He has been and avid mind mapper and user of MindManager since 2005. He estimates that he has easily created over 650 maps using […]

On September 4, 2007 I first introduced you to Michael Panebianco who is a seasoned airline captain.  His infamous “Fire in the Plane” idea map was one of many emergency procedures he has mapped in order to commit the responses to memory. This is a revised idea map that he created after actually experiencing a […]

Idea Mapping has a rich heritage in mind mapping. However I often get this question, “What is the difference between idea mapping and mind mapping?” I use the term “Idea Mapping” rather than “Mind Mapping” for several reasons. First I use the term idea mapping out of respect for the mappers who map strictly by […]

Yesterday I was privileged to to be a speaker at the Annual PMI (Project Management Institute) Conference for the New Jersey Chapter. The top and second idea maps are ones I created live from the first speaker, Sarah Miller Caldicott, who is the author of a book titled, “Innovate Like Edison”. The next idea map […]

This is the 7th idea map in a series I started back in 2007. As part of the Idea Mapping Workshop participants read an article that summaries Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Each idea map ends up looking quite different which initially concerns people. In fact, their maps should look different […]

I’ve been taking readers through a series about a 3-day workshop I taught at Larimer County Government in Fort Collins, CO last month. The first two days I delivered my Idea Mapping Workshop. Day three was a focus on leadership and the development of an Idea Mapping Users Group. In preparation for a discussion about […]