| Mind Mapping, if you are not aware, | | | | Director of Change Management, he had |
| primarily uses non-linear methods and | | | | resorted to Mind Maps to communicate |
| leans heavily on association and links. | | | | complex ideas, intra-departmental |
| These very features of Mind Mapping lend | | | | brainstorming, Presentations and for |
| the technique a great deal of power and | | | | collating information into integrated |
| simplicity, and the resourcefulness of | | | | units. Sargio Giacoletto, ex-Vice |
| the technique emerges only from the | | | | President of Oracle, Europe, is a great |
| actual application. You will find that | | | | fan of Mind Mapping technique. |
| Mind Mapping greatly facilitates group | | | | There are many more notable users, who |
| activities and hence is ideal for | | | | have applied and continue to advocate |
| Brainstorming, Project Planning, | | | | Mind Map technique in different areas of |
| Presentation and whole lot of other | | | | their professional lives. In the hands |
| applications as you can creatively | | | | of experienced users, Mind Maps find |
| apply. | | | | ready application in great many |
| What is of significance is that Mind | | | | activities that requires clear thinking, |
| Maps are a great boon in large business | | | | exploring ideas at length, helping to |
| corporations, where thousands of | | | | find relationships amongst different |
| executives or employees have to undergo | | | | elements, collating a gamut of |
| training, or managers are involved in | | | | information, planning, analysis, group |
| Meetings, Presentations, Brainstorming, | | | | interactions, and so on. |
| Seminars, and wide range of other | | | | What is indeed a notable feature of Mind |
| activities. When Mind Maps are applied | | | | Map technique is that it makes for quick |
| in these sessions, you will be | | | | reading, easy assimilation and memory, |
| fascinated by how the whole process | | | | and fast review. The non-linear method |
| takes on a new meaning and significance. | | | | of using key words and phrases, apart |
| People who have applied Mind Maps will | | | | from conveying the essence of thoughts, |
| vouch for the value they derived. Not | | | | colors, pictures and symbols have deep |
| surprising then that Boeing, Oracle EDS, | | | | mnemonic value, making reading a facile |
| Nabisco and other big companies that | | | | process. Since ideas are grouped under |
| used the technique drew immense | | | | relevant headings with different levels |
| benefits. Testimonies to this are as | | | | of branches, the progression of thoughts |
| follows: | | | | and ideas can be very easily |
| A Boeing Aircraft Engineering Manual was | | | | assimilated. |
| condensed into a 25-foot long Mind Map | | | | In addition, the relational significance |
| to enable a team of 100 senior | | | | between different elements of the |
| aeronautical engineers to learn in a few | | | | subject matter under study is brought to |
| weeks, what took a few years earlier. | | | | bear instantly. Also, use of succinct |
| This resulted in the company netting an | | | | messages converged and coalesced into a |
| estimated saving of $11 million. | | | | single integrated Mind Maps makes |
| In training courses, EDS Digital | | | | reviewing of the whole range of |
| Computers and British Petroleum found | | | | information double quick than the |
| that using Mind Maps brought in huge | | | | conventional method involving long |
| savings – as much as 80%. EDS and | | | | sentences and logical sequence. |
| Nabisco have implemented group commando | | | | Besides, the ease of arranging ideas, |
| study program using Mind Maps and Mind | | | | capturing running thoughts and ideas, |
| Map Organic Study Technique on a group | | | | the personal involvement evoked and |
| of 120 senior members. Results showed | | | | creativity it triggers makes Mind |
| that they were able to condense and | | | | Mapping a distinct technique worth |
| disseminate information amounting to 4-6 | | | | cultivating. Needless to say, all these |
| books in a day's session. At Oxford and | | | | and more render Mind Mapping not just as |
| Cambridge Universities, students like | | | | a perfect tool, but an indispensable |
| Edward Hughes used group Mind Map to | | | | life tool as well, finding application |
| obtain, with minimal time and effort, | | | | in a vast array of human activities, not |
| high first class grades in examinations. | | | | just for business heads but every |
| Alan Matcham of Oracle Corp., had | | | | individual – from a child to |
| introduced Mind Maps decades ago. As | | | | adult. |