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Idea Maps #79-85 – VizThink Breakout Session
11 Feb 2008 Author: Jamie Nast In: Idea Mapping Conference Events, Idea Mapping Example, Mind Mapping Examples
On Friday February 1, 2008 I blogged about the VizThink Conference in San Francisco for which I was fortunate to be a speaker. This posting is solely dedicated to the breakout session that Susi Watson and I did together on January 28, 2008.
I’ll describe these maps from top to bottom. The first map is the agenda for the 90-minute session. Susi pre-drew the central image, and the rest she created live while participants also created their agenda maps.
After several activities which taught how idea maps are created, we shared a number of uses for idea maps from corparations and individuals around the globe. This “Uses” map housed all of our examples.
Next we did a group activity around the question, “What Would Make Your 2008 Great”? In groups of 4-5, participants individually brainstormed around that question and then merged all of their ideas onto a large map. Maps from 3 groups are included here. Finally while looking for commonality across all of the maps, Susi (along with input from the group) created a high-level MindManager template for anyone to begin thinking about what would make 2008 GREAT!
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It’s Not About the Coffee – Podcast 1 of 4
9 Feb 2008 Author: Jamie Nast In: Idea Mapping Example, Mind Mapping Examples, Note-Taking
I met Jim Canterucci (author of Personal Brilliance) back in July of 2007. See my August 22, 2007 posting for Jim’s idea map and more info on him. Each Sunday he puts up a podcast. For this month he’s doing a series of 4 interviews with Howard Behar, the former CEO of Starbucks and author of It’s Not About the Coffee. This idea map is one that I created as a summary of the February 3, 2008 interview.
Listen to this podcast or others by clicking here or you can check out Jim’s blog.
You can see a clearer pdf version of this map on my website under “Additional Maps”. If you click on any column it will sort alphabetically and you can then search by author or title of the map.
The article that Scott was referring to yesterday is in the February 11, 2008 edition of the U.S. News and World Report…sorry. But the January 31 article was still good!
Keeping Your Brain Fit
6 Feb 2008 Author: Jamie Nast In: ArticlesIn the January 31, 2008 edition of U.S. News and World Report there is an excellent article titled Keeping Your Brain Fit. Thank you Scott Hagwood (Four Time USA Memory Champion and the First Grand Master of Memory) for making me aware of this!
Idea Map #77 – Getting to Yes
5 Feb 2008 Author: Jamie Nast In: Idea Mapping Example, Mind Mapping Examples
Luciano Passuello has created an idea map of the book Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton. This is Luciano’s 4th contribution to this blog. You can see a clearer pdf version of this map on my website. If you click on any column it will sort alphabetically and you can then search by author or title.
To see his idea map of the book The Now Habit see the December 21, 2007 posting. For One Small Step Can Change Your Life see the December 11, 2007 posting, and for the book Never Eat Alone see the November 19, 2007 posting.
Idea Map #76 – VizThink Breakout Sessions
1 Feb 2008 Author: Jamie Nast In: Idea Mapping Conference Events, Idea Mapping Example, Mind Mapping Examples, MindManager
I was fortunate to be one of the facilitators at the VizThink ’08 Conference this week in San Francisco, CA. On Saturday I began to study the various session descriptions to see which ones I wanted to attend. I looked at a list of session titles which showed the time, location, and last name of the presenter. Then I would go to another page on their wiki to see the facilitators’ photos (because we were meeting as a group Sunday night and I wanted to remember names), and then I would click through to their profile and session description.
This map (created in MindManager) put all that information into one place. Each main branch represents the time slot. Each sub-branch has the facilitator name, an image that represented their work or session, their photo, the session title & location, and a link to their web page or blog. If you want to see the LARGER and clearer pdf version click here. If you click on any column it will sort alphabetically and you can then search by author or title. Unfortunately the links were lost in the jpeg and pdf files, but you can see the live links here.
Idea Map #75 – Clouds
30 Jan 2008 Author: Jamie Nast In: Idea Mapping Example, Mind Mapping Examples
Steve Rothwell is a previous contributor to this blog and today he shares an idea map he created purely for his own enjoyment. His map about Clouds was inspired by Roberto Vidales’s map on Trees. Above you will see both the full view and the folded view — both created in MindManager. You can see a clearer pdf version of the FULL map on my website. If you click on any column it will sort the maps alphabetically and you can then search by author or title.
Steve’s other two maps are from the April 19, 2007 postings: Idea Map #10 and Idea Map #11.
Idea Map #74 – Salesman Joel Series – Part 3
26 Jan 2008 Author: Jamie Nast In: Idea Mapping Example, Mind Mapping Examples
In last Saturday’s blog I introduced you to Joel Landoe, an engineer at Boeing. This idea map is the second in this series and depicts the website design of how he will run his business. For the pdf version of this map go to my website. If you click on any column it will sort alphabetically and you can then search by author or map title, etc.
Idea Map #72 – Salesman Joel Series
19 Jan 2008 Author: Jamie Nast In: Idea Mapping Example, Mind Mapping Examples
This idea map was created by Joel Landoe who is an engineer at Boeing. It represents his personal development plan to get into sales. In order to do this even better than his current engineering career, he needed to have a very solid development plan, and this idea map is designed to do that.
- A reminder of the recurring benefits that best friends bring over a lifetime and that his focus should be on building deep lasting friendships.
- The Dale Carnegie conversation stack/model for interacting with prospects combined with Jeffrey Gitomer’s “25 power questions”. The trunk reminds him that he is rooted in strong values, “Greater love hath no man than he lay down his life for his friends”. Put God and others before self.
- “Family” reminds him that they can be his biggest asset for spreading the word about his business.
- And the last branch reminds him to always be meeting new people.
In the next two postings, he’ll share maps that help with operational plans and website design. Stay tuned. For the pdf version of this map go to my website. If you click on any column it will sort alphabetically and you can then search by author or map title, etc.
Dynamic Dashboard Drastically Improves Productivity – Idea Map #71 Featured in today’s January Mindjet Newsletter
16 Jan 2008 Author: Jamie Nast In: Idea Mapping Example, Idea Maps for Meetings, Mind Mapping Examples, Productivity, Project Management
Overview
In the Spring of 2007, I introduced Denny Sikkila (Mindjet Central Region Manager) to one of my clients at a large automotive company here in Michigan. Denny helped her build a MindManager prototype to develop a Program Dashboard that has transformed their weekly status meetings. Not only has it saved them time in preparing for meetings, it has also resulted in more effective meetings.
Before
Every week a group of 35 IT project leaders would gather to review the status of the most major IT projects happening within the organization. In order to prepare for the meeting, a team of 4 people had to build a document approximately 85 pages in length. Each week they:
- Required that all data was updated with actuals: project work plans, financials, issues, risks, scope control, and metrics reports
- Cut the data out of each source and pasted the data (as a picture) into the document
- Printed the 85-page status document
Because of the time-consuming task of cutting and pasting, the document was out-of-date by the time it was printed. (The weekly cut and paste took 2 days to execute.) The 85-page document was difficult to review and required the 35+ people to set aside two hours each week to report statuses. The team spent more time shuffling back and forth through the 85 pages and debating why the data was out-of-date, than they spent understanding the status and reviewing and resolving issues.
A mandated reduction in their staff forced them to become more efficient. This led to the idea of creating a dashboard and eliminating the cut and paste process. MindManager was the perfect tool. It allowed them to quickly and easily create a dashboard that linked directly to all the data.
The New Process
Today there is only one requirement in this process. The meeting participants need to make sure their data is up-to-date before it’s their turn to discuss any status. This Mindjet-driven dashboard links to over 50 files and 10 weblinks.
All the cutting, pasting, and printing have been eliminated — which saves approximately 20 hours per week. They’ve also reduced status meetings from 2 hours to 1. But more importantly, the meetings have reach a higher level of maturity. All information is reviewed electronically (via a projector). The team members can sit in a meeting and update the data real time. For example, if an issue needs to be reworded, it’s done right there and then. Today the focus of the meeting is on analyzing the data instead of making excuses and debating out-of-date information. With the click of the mouse, tons of data can be accessed quickly and easily. Instead of reviewing a hard copy picture, files are accessed in real time. This allows for the ability to drill down to the specific tasks, hours, predecessors, etc. They can now make informed decisions right on the spot, because they have access to all the correct data. MindManager has transformed the way this project manager runs this program.
Are you wondering how this group of 35 reacted the first time this process went from the static paper version to the electronic dashboard? I happened to be witness to this first debut. The transition was seamless, it was simple to follow, and there wasn’t a person in the room that wasn’t impressed. I’ll bet there is a process in your organization that could use a MindManager dashboard! To see the clearer pdf version of this map, go to my website and click on the column titled map name. It will show titles alphabetically, and you can scroll down to “Program Dashboard”.
To see other maps created by this project manager see: Dare to Dream, Then Do It, and DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats.
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