MindMapper Application Guide

1. MindMapper®Application Guide

2. Mindmapper Application Guide 2 MindMapper® Innovative tool for improving business productivity in the age of knowledge and information Minimize communication cost between your brain and your PC. In other words, between thoughts and applications.

3. Mindmapper Application Guide 3 Corporate Examples Administration Operation planning and Action Plan Speech draft preparation Six Sigma application Marketing plan Decision making Planning Business Plan creation Home Page planning Work Breakdown structure Idea expression New Product planning Event planning Risk Management structure

4. Mindmapper Application Guide 4 Meetings Typical meeting consists of many people and many thoughts. Challenging to quickly organize all ideas in traditional linear fashion Need to identify core ideas and their respective sub-ideas.

5. Mindmapper Application Guide 5 Meetings (cont’d) Use the title of the meeting as the title of the MindMap Use each core idea as the top-level branch Sub-divide each top-level branch into more detailed suggestions and ideas Final map can be imported into Microsoft Word/PowerPoint/Project, and/or can be emailed to each participant. Hardcopy of the map becomes the minutes of the meeting.

6. Mindmapper Application Guide 6 Open Discussion Moderator needs to quickly organize new ideas being floated around. Start with meeting agenda as the map title. Moderator can create sub headings with each new idea. People by nature have tendency to “fill in voids”. So seeing voids in the map will let people focus more in those sub areas.

7. Mindmapper Application Guide 7 Brainstorming MindMapper is also a great tool for moderating and organizing a brainstorming session. MindMapper can also be used remotely by many users, via Microsoft’s Netmeeting or Lotus’ Sametime. Remote users can view the MindMap in real time as the session progresses.

8. Mindmapper Application Guide 8 Project Planning Not many useful project planning software is in the market today. Key to starting a project is a brainstorming session. MindMapper® can keep track of an entire project, down to each detail. MindMapper® supports Gantt Chart for project planning. Project map can easily be imported into Microsoft Project.

9. Mindmapper Application Guide 9 Presentation Traditional presentation tools are good as standalone tools, but it’s difficult to bind together PPT slides, Excel charts, CAD drawings, etc. into one presentation. MindMapper allows a presentation to include all those components and more. MindMapper can hyperlink to other MindMaps, or to most industry-standard files.

10. Mindmapper Application Guide 10 Presentation (cont’d) You can choose to show the entire presentation, or focus in just one specific branch of the MindMap. Each branch of the MindMap can be arranged to fit with the flow of the presentation.

11. Mindmapper Application Guide 11 Business Document Creation and Management Use MindMapper to reduce cost in creating business documents. Each department can “own” a branch of the map. Collection of maps can be collaborated into one master map document. Easily import the map into Word document.

12. Mindmapper Application Guide 12 Business Document Creation and Management (cont’d) Advantages of using MindMapper: Each department can own their separate branch of the main map for easier support and maintenance. Each person can customize their own map to increase productivity. Can easily combine all the maps into one core map, and easily import the map into a Word document. Can view the entire document in one meaningful page.

13. Mindmapper Application Guide 13 Business Planning & Administration Start each day by automatically reviewing and adding notes into “MyPlanner” map when you start Windows. Select Start->Settings->Taskbar & Start Menu… Select Advanced tab, then Add Input “c:\program files\mindmapper3.0\mm.exe myplanner.map” Choose Startup folder Choose Next, then Finish

14. Mindmapper Application Guide 14 Project Management 1. Team leader owns the main map. 2. Each team member owns each branch of the main map and enters project status. 3. Team leader can link all the member’s sub maps to the main map for complete project overview and status.

15. Mindmapper Application Guide 15 Document Management Techniques/Skills propagation Foreign Language Test Preparation Lesson Plan Creation Multimedia Teaching Materials

16. Mindmapper Application Guide 16 Exporting to Microsoft Word Easily export MindMap into Word document. Format document automatically using styles in the Word template.

17. Mindmapper Application Guide 17 Exporting to Microsoft PowerPoint PowerPoint’s natural structure of a presentation tool allows easy conversion from MindMap Each main idea of the MindMap is converted to each PowerPoint slide’s title Each second tier branch of the MindMap becomes a bullet item in the slide Apply appropriate PPT template to polish the conversion

18. Mindmapper Application Guide 18 Using PowerPoint Templates PPT includes many templates, which can be imported into MindMapper for automated content generation. Start AutoContent Wizard in PowerPoint. Create a template to fit your needs using the wizard. Save the PPT file when done. Open the saved PPT file from MindMapper. Add content and export back to PPT format.

19. Mindmapper Application Guide 19 Thesis Great for consolidating ideas. Build Map skeleton with the main ideas of the thesis. Concentrate first on ideas that are already fresh in your mind. Keep adding key ideas and content. Use Hyperlinks and URLs to identify and connect relevant materials. Convert to Word or PowerPoint to view finished document.

20. Mindmapper Application Guide 20 Knowledge Management Knowledge Map Knowledge map is the first step to constructing a useful KMS. Allows people most familiar with the company’s knowledge (employees) to start building a KMS system by building knowledge maps from their documents. Reduce cost of building extensive KMS system.

21. Mindmapper Application Guide 21 Knowledge Management (cont’d) Preliminary preparation for KMS and improvement of thought constitution MindMapper® is a product based on the concept of Mind Map. People familiar with MindMapper® start all of their documents by drawing a Mind Map. Easy process to represent your thoughts in a MindMap