Reﬂection - Mind Mapping

Challenge & Selection

I am part of the Research and Credit Group of the SAFRIC, and most of the time  we speak and present to people, clients and sales persons within the company in order to  communicate with them our views and opinions. However, due to increasing demand on  research presentations we are having trouble juggling the data analysis, admin requests and  creating high value recommendations for our strategy. And to highlight we use most of our time  to analyze our data to create new ideas and provide feedback and give recommendations. And  mind mapping is very eﬀective to take notes and easily brainstorm ideas. This can generate  ideas to help broaden our concepts and identify the ideas between the available data and  information.

Application

Since our team has a pool of ideas we now then use the mind mapping to brainstorm on the  possible future events that might occur and aﬀect the volatility of the market that we are  looking at. Using the mind mapping we will then simplify the ideas and turn it into solution fo  future use. Since we also present to our clients and sales people within the company, this tool  will also help us to achieve organizing ideas and aid us to memorize the spiel that we need to  give.

Since we also encounter problems in the present time, by means of mind mapping we can  easily organize our ideas in order to solve the problems as we can go back to it to remind us on  the thoughts that we have gathered.

For example, the GDP has a lot of components to consider and we will receive a lot of data in  order to forecast it. So every data is interconnected to each other like inﬂation and employment  data and these will all ﬂow to GDP back. And when the data is interconnected with each other  it is easy to comprehend and add other data which can signify the topic further.

Insight and Approach

By the use of mind mapping we can help strengthen the ideas and can easily go back to the  main thing that we need to ﬁnd solution to. Our team has lessened the time on comprehending  the data provided since mind mapping helped on the organization of our ideas and help us  solve the dilemma that we are facing. Provided that the team have already tries the other  learning tool, we think that using the mind mapping is the best way for us to make our work  eﬃcient and eﬀective. The coming problems and data analysis would now be easier to solve  and understand by using this design thinking tool.

