Week 5 Mind Mapping

Challenge

While doing this course of “Designing Thinking for Innovation” the topic that stood

out to me was Mind Mapping.  Mind Mapping is a new concept for me. I think

that’s one of the reasons that it stood out to me. I currently work for dialysis clinic

as a social worker. I’ve have been doing dialysis social worker for about 3 years

now. I’ve worked for two different companies during that period. In dialysis the

business I’ve noticed that it is hard to get people to think outside of the box. And

things tend not to be very efficient when it comes to completing task.  Concepts

such as Mind Mapping are the type of ideas concepts that my work needs in

place to help grow to its full potential. We talk about growth all the time but

there’s no real innovation to achieve any of our goals.

Selections

As stated before I don’t think my company thinks too much outside of box. I think

is safe to say that have no vision. I believe that mind mapping will help develop

some type of vision for us. Mind Mapping will us a clear visual of what our plan is

to help grow and best possible company. Showing the team a clear visual of the

hierarchical and relationships among pieces of the whole should only benefit the

team. Hopefully this can get individuals out their “that’s not my job” type of

mindset. My main goal is to help other’s see the bigger picture.

Application

Research states that  using mind mapping increased their productivity by 25%. If

that’s not convincing enough, a different study showed that it also increases the

pace of work to 44%. Known for improving collaboration among professionals,

mind mapping platforms can be used as an alternative to traditional presentation

building tools such as PowerPoint.  Which is something that we use often within

my company.  PowerPoint to me is such uninspiring thing to me. So wanted to

get my company to start using different mind mapping apps and soft where.

These tools can help us create engaging and informative mind maps that you

can easily share with employees and colleagues alike.

In practice I wanted to improve our intake and enrollment process. This one of

the biggest issues we have. There have many breakdowns in this process past. It

definitely something I want to correct because correcting this now will make our

lives easier moving forward. So I basically took things into my own hands and

created Mind Map for the intake process.  I spent about 3 days looking at the

currently process and analyzing the flaws.  I then download a mind map program

and outlined the old and new process. I used both processes to compare and

contrast the old breakdowns and new improvements.

Insight/Approach

I was quit surprised of the how the team reposed to the suggestion that pitched. I

think what help the process is having that visual to where they could see

everything I was talking about. I wonder if I different approach how would have

things been. Because I’ve seen thing first hand that most people do like change. I

think having people see that process step by step was major factor has to why it

worked so well. I think the intonation that was used was the key.


Week 5 Mind Mapping Challenge While doing this course of “ Designing Thinking for Innovation ” the topic that stood out to me was Mind Mapping . Mind Mapping is a new concept for me . I think that ’s one of the reasons that it stood out to me . I currently work for dialysis clinic as a social worker . I ’ve have been doing dialysis social worker for about 3 years now . I ’ve worked for two different companies during that period . In dialysis the business I ’ve noticed that it is hard to get people to think outside of the box . And things tend not to be very efficient when it comes to completing task . Concepts such as Mind Mapping are the type of ideas concepts that my work needs in place to help grow to its full potential . We talk about growth all the time but there ’s no real innovation to achieve any of our goals . Selections As stated before I do n’t think my company thinks too much outside of box . I think is safe to say that have no vision . I believe that mind mapping will help develop some type of vision for us . Mind Mapping will us a clear visual of what our plan is to help grow and best possible company . Showing the team a clear visual of the hierarchical and relationships among pieces of the whole should only benefit the team . Hopefully this can get individuals out their “ that ’s not my job ” type of mindset . My main goal is to help other ’s see the bigger picture . Application Research states that using mind mapping increased their productivity by 25 % . If that ’s not convincing enough , a different study showed that it also increases the pace of work to 44 % . Known for improving collaboration among professionals , mind mapping platforms can be used as an alternative to traditional presentation building tools such as PowerPoint . Which is something that we use often within my company . PowerPoint to me is such uninspiring thing to me . So wanted to get my company to start using different mind mapping apps and soft where . These tools can help us create engaging and informative mind maps that you can easily share with employees and colleagues alike . In practice I wanted to improve our intake and enrollment process . This one of the biggest issues we have . There have many breakdowns in this process past . It definitely something I want to correct because correcting this now will make our lives easier moving forward . So I basically took things into my own hands and created Mind Map for the intake process . I spent about 3 days looking at the currently process and analyzing the flaws . I then download a mind map program and outlined the old and new process . I used both processes to compare and contrast the old breakdowns and new improvements . Insight / Approach I was quit surprised of the how the team reposed to the suggestion that pitched . I think what help the process is having that visual to where they could see everything I was talking about . I wonder if I different approach how would have things been . Because I ’ve seen thing first hand that most people do like change . I think having people see that process step by step was major factor has to why it worked so well . I think the intonation that was used was the key .