Reflection – Mind Mapping

Challenge

I am a member of a small company made up of 13 people, so our tasks are varied,  we are in charge of marketing, management, finance and other things.

We will use the mind mapping tool to bring together as a team and connect ideas  that will lead us to more creative solutions in the development of our product design.

Selection

The mind mapping tool is a diagram used to represent ideas, words, tasks and  concepts together, represented radially around a central idea or keyword that  consists of looking for patterns and insights in the large amount of data collected.

Application

For the application of this tool, first we decided where we were going to do it, it had  to be a place where there were no interruptions, spacious and comfortable, since we  found a suitable place, we have to capture the ideas (once the necessary information  was collected and reasoning the information) equipping our participants with pen,  sticky notes, among others. All this process dialoguing with the other members,  asking them to write down any element they think is necessary, then we analyze  what would be useful and what is not, after the participants have made observations,  the next step was to ask the participants what is next, until new valuable ideas arise  and we write the personal statements on bigger sticky notes and place them on the  corresponding groups of sticky notes, then we made the participants observe the  connections between the groups to achieve a better representation of "what is".

Insight

Applying the mind map tool exceeded our expectations and were much better than  we thought, since having new ideas, discussing them and capturing them using this  tool would have good results, but these were better since they helped us to highlight  those main ideas that we all thought about, but did not know how to capture them.

Approach

Since my team and I have used this tool a lot and it is very familiar, it worked very  well, however we had several mishaps with the issue of organization, since everyone  had to participate and in order, but then we achieved a good organization with the  participants.

In future occasions that we use this tool we will have practice and we will know how  to use it in a more efficient way.

