Mind Mapping Tool

As an employee of a team member, it was always difficult to express our thoughts and ideas

easily and being understood by the rest of the team. To make our ideas more organized in our

brainstorming meetings and problem-solving sessions, Mind Mapping was used as it is an

efficient method that organized all the ideas in a formation and in a visually brain-friendly

method. Mind Mapping is one of the most powerful design thinking tools that leads to a more

creative solution.

As am working in a university in the Institutional Excellence Department, we always seek to

improve our processes and performance to maintain excellence. Therefore, we were trying to

find the best tools for improving our processes and analyzing all the possible outcomes. To start

the process, me and my team had a brain-storming meeting to collect all our ideas from an

extensive research and benchmarking studies that we have done earlier. We gathered large

quantity of data and information, but with using the mind mapping tool, it helped us to look for

the patterns and insights and helped us to generate the what-if analysis to test it in our university

processes and how this improvement may affect the everyday work.

We started in a big white board and drawing each idea and its consequences with different colors,

and the branches becomes bigger and bigger while we dig deep in analyzing the situation. We

tried to capture and represent the minds of the other departments which are our customers, so

we as a team developed a common mind among us regarding the current reality of a design

challenge.

After having those many ideas, we tried to find a connection between each other with the main

idea till the shape looked so big.

What I have learned from doing this exercise with my team members for the mind mapping tool

is the importance on using single keywords rather than long text which will help to focus on one

single idea and simplify the topic. Moreover, using visual elements such as colors, shapes, and

icons are vital to represent the ideas. Mind mapping tool helped me to have efficient meeting

time and communicating ideas, increased my productivity through better thinking methods, and

improved the communication and collaboration between the team members.


Mind Mapping Tool As an employee of a team member , it was always difficult to express our thoughts and ideas easily and being understood by the rest of the team . To make our ideas more organized in our brainstorming meetings and problem - solving sessions , Mind Mapping was used as it is an efficient method that organized all the ideas in a formation and in a visually brain - friendly method . Mind Mapping is one of the most powerful design thinking tools that leads to a more creative solution . As am working in a university in the Institutional Excellence Department , we always seek to improve our processes and performance to maintain excellence . Therefore , we were trying to find the best tools for improving our processes and analyzing all the possible outcomes . To start the process , me and my team had a brain - storming meeting to collect all our ideas from an extensive research and benchmarking studies that we have done earlier . We gathered large quantity of data and information , but with using the mind mapping tool , it helped us to look for the patterns and insights and helped us to generate the what - if analysis to test it in our university processes and how this improvement may affect the everyday work . We started in a big white board and drawing each idea and its consequences with different colors , and the branches becomes bigger and bigger while we dig deep in analyzing the situation . We tried to capture and represent the minds of the other departments which are our customers , so we as a team developed a common mind among us regarding the current reality of a design challenge . After having those many ideas , we tried to find a connection between each other with the main idea till the shape looked so big . What I have learned from doing this exercise with my team members for the mind mapping tool is the importance on using single keywords rather than long text which will help to focus on one single idea and simplify the topic . Moreover , using visual elements such as colors , shapes , and icons are vital to represent the ideas . Mind mapping tool helped me to have efficient meeting time and communicating ideas , increased my productivity through better thinking methods , and improved the communication and collaboration between the team members .