Bill gates recently claimed that Mind Mappers were the “Road Ahead” and are “leading the way into the next stage of our new information democracy.” Testament to such a statement, it has now been confirmed that virtually all Fortune 500 companies use Mind Mapping, including: IBM, British Petroleum, UBS, General Motors, Walt Disney and Microsoft. So what makes mind maps so successful and will mind maps develop in the future?
Mind Maps, described by some as the “Swiss Army Knife of the Brain,” allow individuals, and any group with whom that individual is associated with, to illustrate their natural form of thinking.It is predominantly applied to the improvement of every form of thinking; and the forms of thinking are themselves infinite.
Tony Buzan, the inventor of the Mind Map, has attempted to further the development of the mind map into a software that would explore human thinking. A feat, if it were to be achieved, he deems as difficult as the Manhattan Project.
My experience with Mind Maps has led to firm belief that they are a simple as well as insightful way in deducing an individual’s thought process and in terms of group work, it would allow for disagreements to be solved much more efficiently as team members would be able to point out in which points they disagreed.
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