Design thinking for innovation                          Coursera assignment                                 MIND MAPPING                                                                             Angelik

Mind mapping is used to represent how ideas or other items are linked to a central  idea and to each other. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and  classify ideas to look for patterns and insights that provide key design criteria.

Challenge :

I was one of the process group  analysts in the team of a total 6 people in the project. The  project was part of a software development and artificial intelligence  programme of a  public authority. There was a limited time of effort to be paid. In few months we  had to  deliver a working data or the process data  to be used by all the authority departments. The  project we  were responsible for was the document management system of the authority.  The knowledge of the domain was not prepared and made properly and unfortunately a  couple of my same group  department employees or followers   were holding this  knowledge in their minds. So the analysis part of the modules the software  was really hard  to define from an analyst's perspective as their internal stakeholders or investors and  company members .

Selection :

Mind mapping makes it easier to learn faster, brainstorm faster, and communicate more  effectively. These are all very nullified  skills to have in the todays business  world: being  able to do all of the above more efficiently saves you time and improves the quality of your  work and also gives us best results choosing this method is suitable for overcoming my  challenge and also  and enhances creative problem solving.

Application :

first I  Identified  the central idea and add it to your mind map. Maybe you've been  told to develop requirements for a new system and  Identify the main areas that  impact the problem. So I have various ways of using mind  mapping  in my challenge  so I have selected mind mapping  There’s no real rules to using mind maps. And You just  enter your central idea, maybe it’s a requirement or a problem, and then start adding  everything that comes to mind.  Mind maps are excellent in interviews and workshops, or as  a personal thinking tool.

Insight :

•  It helps you remember and recall information , Try this little experiment and It  helps you learn new concepts

•  It's a fun way of learning and  It makes complex ideas easier to understand

•  It improves your presenting and It boosts your creativity  and its gives us the   improves productivity and  flexible .

Approach :

Next I might use the visualization as , it gives much more creativity and Visualization  or visualisation is any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a  message. Visualization through visual imagery has been an effective way to communicate both  abstract and concrete ideas since the dawn of humanity.

