One of the eight thinking maps, a bubble map, is an excellent tool when looking to expand on the description. This map starts from a central idea or main idea and can even be used to brainstorm. It’s a mind map that will help develop critical thinking skills and, at the same time, be a graphic organizer. Really it’s a bubble map graphic organizer. Each bubble can be part of brain dumps or new ideas,…
In today’s world, your greatest asset is your mind. That’s why you’ve got to hone your creative thinking skills and your ability to organize ideas. And one of the most effective ways to do that is by using the mind mapping technique. Creating mind maps allows you to leverage the way your brain works to boost understanding and creativity. It makes it easy to generate ideas. Organizing ideas becomes a snap too. You can even…
The benefits of customer journey mapping help in delivering the right type of product or service. It started back in 1985 as a visual mind map of what the customer experience would look like. Ron Zemeke and Chip Bell are credited with the customer experience mapping, which helped to map out customer expectations. These customer expectations range from the customer’s experience and interaction with the customer touchpoint. It began as a manual process that you…
In your ever-growing list of management and planning tools, we come across the affinity diagram. The origins and the intention of an affinity diagram to organize came from Jiro Kawakita back in the 1960s. He was an anthropologist who needed a better way to organize and consolidate information. This has made affinity diagrams known as the KJ method because of the founder himself. The KJ method is another typical way of brainstorming that can help…
A brace map is actually known by another name called the Warnier Orr diagram, which was created by Kenneth Orr and Jean-Dominique Warnier back in 1976. It was a way of designing programs but from a different perspective. It’s hierarchical, where we start with the output and create the results. Yet we’re working backward here to see what the inputs are to produce them. It’s since been commonly known as a brace map, and it’s…