Idea Mapping

Larisa Brigevich is the Director of the Global Research Library at Franklin Templeton. In April 2008 she completed the 5-day Idea Mapping Certification workshop. Her first contribution to this blog was January 7, 2008. I’ll let her explain this idea map in her own words. I know her map is quite large, so if you […]

This week I taught two Idea Mapping Workshops at a large automotive company in southeastern Michigan. There are now 44 new idea mappers. Thought you might enjoy a few of the photos. I especially like Coleen’s name tent. See if you can find it in these pictures.

Thum sent this example to many of us mappers and I was intrigued because it was a joint effort between father and son. Thum worked together with his 12-year old son for his Social Studies assignment using iMindMap and incorporating a graph. It may help you if you are trying to find your way around […]

Ben Clarke is the exploration manager for a small oil and gas exploration company in Norway called Excel Expro. It’s a start-up company, just over a year old, and they’ve had to build their strategy from scratch. I met Ben as a result of his desire to receive a copy of Bill Miller’s idea map […]

These two group maps were created last week by the participants of the Idea Mapping Certification Workshop. The topic was “Uses of Idea Maps.” Each person started with an individual 4-minute brainstorm of all the uses they could think of for Idea Mapping. Then I broke everyone into two groups. The groups then merged all […]

I was introduced to Bill Miller in the fall of 2007 by Denny Sikkila – Mindjet’s Central Regional Manager. Bill is the Associate Vice President & Controller for Nationwide Services Company at Nationwide Insurance. He is a visionary and champion for personal productivity and process automation. Bill is leading the way in introducing MindManager throughout […]

Welcome to the posting that celebrates the 100th idea mapping contribution. This is Luciano Passuello’s 5th book summary that he has shared with us. (Search on “Luciano” in this blog to see his other 4 summaries.) As usual his maps can get very large so this is the folded version. This version as well as […]

In 1997 Billy Waters, founder of Waters Consulting, read a book titled Maverick by Ricardo Semler. The top map shows his original hand-drawn book summary map. He has revisited this map and tweaked it over the years. In 1999, he moved it to MindManager, and here you see his most recent 2008 update using the […]

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind is a book written by T. Harv Aker. This idea map was created by Debbie Edwards Miller after she attended the 2-day workshop “Idea Mapping: A Learning Workshop” that was held at ACH (Automotive Components Holding, LLC). It summarizes the content of the book. The photo I took of her […]

One of my clients from a large automotive company in southeastern Michigan gave me these idea maps she created around de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats. The top map is a description of the Six Thinking Hats and what each hat represents in terms of its focus as well as the benefits to using this method. […]