Mind Pad

[belliott]

In this Forum Experience with discuss the posible applications of Mind Pad.

[belliott]

Article topic: Students organise ideas as a mind map

[belliott]

Peter D. Moore, Managing Partner, Inferential Focus uses mind maps to work with information and it helps him to report his findings to 35 institutional investors and 15 corporations, from GE Capital to IBM to Philip Morris.
His business bases on finding anomalous events in information flow and making a resumes.

If you want to get to know about his techniques, you can read it here.

[belliott]

If you would examine great company’s reports, you could see that quality management is an increasingly important discipline to achieve great results. It concerns of many successful companies of all sizes, such as 3M, for example. 3M uses Six Sigma technology and they have also achieved record financial results during using this.

Many of this companies somehow or other use mind mapping to manage quality initiatives. With its simple, relational structure, mind maps are used to brainstorm ideas, map out processes, identify root causes, and chart steps for quality improvement.
The main advantage is that mind mapping provides a simple way for everyone to make sense of the complex quality dynamics. When you see the big picture of complex organizational processes, it’s easier to evaluate the steps for improvement and optimize the details. This results in the overall quality of a business becoming greater than just the sum of its parts. Also, you can use mind mapping to support Six Sigma and other documenting processes.

[belliott]

EXpertSystem/eXpertLingo software suite takes 15 minutes to tap over 100 great minds, 144,000 word associations and 250,000+ images.
This software can be useful for coaches, consultants, executives and creatives.
Probably, using tis software, you will accelerate your creative problem solving and develop dozens of ideas.
In general, this softwre is a suite of creativity, brainstorming and expert learning and presentation programs to accelerate business, coaching, consulting and learning.
This suite consist of two main programs - eXpertSystem and eXpertLingo, with nearly 1,000 expert topic questions and comments, 144,000 word and phrase association engine and a 250,000 keyword-tagged image database, for visual brainstorming and assembling presentations.
You can download a free full function 15-day trial version from http://store.richcontent.com/exfrtr.html.

Read more -
Be the Genius in Your Next Meeting

[belliott]

Process mapping is a well-known technique, however, this technique hasn't been widely adopted by sales and marketing departments.
Here you can find some advices on doing this.

[belliott]

As different researches show, 38% companies use Six Sigma process.
The fundamental objective of Six Sigma is the implementation of measurement-based strategies focused on reducing flaws, thus improving customer satisfaction.

Achieving Six Sigma requires mastering several stages: defining the process in question, measuring its performance, analyzing its effectiveness, implementing improvements, and controlling improvements over the long term.

You can use mind map to support Six Sigma processes.

For example, if we want to create a map of Six Sigma, we will get something like this:

Central topic - Six Sigma. Then:

Define

Determine customer expectations of the process

Measure

How often to defects occur?

Analyze

Why, when, and where do they occur?

Improve

How can we fix the process?

Control

How can we make it stay fixed?

And so on

To get some statistic:
Search For Improvement With Complex Six Sigma