Mind Pad

[Carol Lindsey]

It's very impressive, how many different applications for corporate using mind mapping has. Usually, small team use of mind maps in a corporate context is the optimal.

For example you can use it to begin a project with client.
You can incorporate mind maps into instructional design process.
1. Give client a 1/2 day course on mind mapping.
This keeps the review meetings on track and enables everyone to participate in identifying objects and topics to be covered.
Also it helps keep everyone involved in the project regardless of their level of time commitment.
This has a big impact on the quality of the course as well as the sense of ownership by all members of the client's team.
2. Show them how they will be using it and give them examples of previous instructional design projects to make it real.
3. Start to develop the instructional design of their project while showing them the mechanics of mind maps.
It takes about 1/2 day to get them to a point where they can read a map comfortably during a meeting while focusing on the underlying problem and make additions to it to document their input into the process.


Also, different companies use mind mapping for:
- Business strategy development: process definition, strategy workshops and documentation;
- Business risk management: process definition, identification workshops, mitigation action tracking and management of the risk register;
- Business process improvement: AS-IS analysis, gap analysis, options analysis, TO-BE process definitions, walkthroughs, implementation and documentation;
- IT strategy and architecture development: process-information mapping, system-process mapping;
- Internet & Intranet site design, initial development;
- Big content management: visually tracking content development action;
- Contract & SLA development;
- Consultancy assignments: Scoping, research, workshop facilitation, documentation and reporting and so on.

If you know this technique, it can help you in many corporate activities.
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Carol Lindsey, AKS-Labs Representative
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