Business Guide to Mind Mapping

Who is this book for?

This book is designed for business owners, managers, employees, business consultants, sales people, independent contractors, and anyone else who has any involvement in business planning, problem solving, presentations, pitching ideas, selling, or anyone who needs to be more organized and efficient at work.

Where did the information come from?

This book draws on the collective experience of Gideon King, founder and owner of NovaMind Software and more than 10 other Mind Mapping experts, as well as a number of research papers, multiple web sites and an online survey.

What is in the book?

Well you're going to need to buy the book to find out the full information, and see all the example Mind Maps etc, but here are the chapter titles and the sections of the book, which should give you a clear picture of what is in the book. Also when you purchase the book, you receive access to an exclusive book owner's forum with links to resources, example Mind Maps for you to download and use, and a place for you to share your thoughts with other book owners and the author.

Chapter 1 - Introduction to Mind Mapping

  • Acknowledgements
  • How To Use This Book
  • What is Mind Mapping?
  • The Different Learning Styles
  • Where does Mind Mapping come from?
  • How does it work?
  • Who uses Mind Mapping?
  • How do Different Industries use Mind Mapping?
  • Mind Mapping Vs Concept Mapping

Chapter 2: Business Applications of Mind Mapping

  • Learning Intelligences
  • Applications for different industries
  • Introducing Mind Mapping into your Company

Chapter 3: Constructing Mind Maps

  • How do I create a Mind Map?
  • Mind Mapping by Hand
  • Group Mind Mapping
  • Mind Mapping with Software
  • Hand-Drawn Mind Maps versus Mind Mapping Software
  • How to choose the right Mind Mapping software for you

Chapter 4: Mind Mapping as a Business Planning Tool

  • Business Plans
  • How to create a Mind Mapped Business Plan
  • How to create a Mind Mapped Marketing Plan
  • Growth Strategies
  • How to create a Mind Mapped Website Plan

Chapter 5: Mind Maps as Sales Tools

  • Mind Mapping as a Sales Tool
  • Mind Mapping to Pitch your Ideas
  • Presentations

Chapter 6: Mind Mapping as a Project Management Tool

  • Mind Mapping as a Project Management Tool
  • Using Mind Mapping to plan a project
  • Using Mind Mapping during the course of a project
  • Using Mind Mapping at the conclusion of a project
  • Case study from a Lawyer

Chapter 7: Mind Mapping as a Management Tool

  • Mind Mapping as a Management Tool
  • Process Management: Six Sigma
  • People Management:
  • Organisation Management: The Learning Organisation
  • The Brainstorming Process

Chapter 8: Mind Mapping in the Office

  • Mind Mapping your Task Lists
  • Mind Mapping and Knowledge Management
  • Research
  • Create a desktop dashboard: PC
  • Summarising books and articles
  • Mind Mapping for Meeting, Conference and Event Management
  • Agendas and Minutes

Chapter 9: Personal and Professional Development

  • Mind Mapping for Goal Setting
  • Mind Mapping and Study
  • Publishing Books and Articles
  • Taking Notes during Presentations & Seminars

Chapter 10: Resources

  • Common Mind Mapping Terms
  • About the Author
  • Mind Mapping Online Resources
  • Mind Mapping Freeware
  • Exclusive Book Owner's Forum and Extra Resources

Where Can I Buy the Book?

You can purchase your copy today from our Online Store for US$39.95.

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Testimonials

"This is a must have"

Well - I do not want to duplicate the - true - statements in the other testimonials, just one thing should tell it all: NovaMind set a personal record for me. That is: first shareware ever purchased within 1 hour after downloading the trial version.

After moving from Win XP back to Mac OS (after moving in the opposite direction 5 years ago) the only application I was really missing was Mind Manager and for a while I was afraid I would have to live with outlining tools such as OmniOutliner or Notebook (which are both very good products I do recommend if outlining is what you want to do). But outlining tools do not offer the amount of assistance and visual clarity in developing complex concepts, while being an enormous time saver in being a development, presentation and marketing tool at the same time.

Honestly, I have been involved in several large-scale international consulting projects and the difference between showing decision makers an outline (or presentation) and allowing them to actually "feel" how much effort and thought went into creating "their" solution by presenting a Mind Map is enormous and priceless.

NovaMind offers exactly that while even being easier to use than the Windows counter part. Add to that the reasonable pricing and (compared to many other current Mac OS X apps) broad import/export capabilities... (cannot even think of words to describe my happiness finding out how well the Mind Manager import works having more than 1700 of them at hand) this is a must have. Love it.

Uwe Rueckeshaeuser : Frankfurt, Germany/Bangkok, Thailand


"Today NovaMind is one of my favorite applications"

After a learning session about mind maps, I was so enthousiastic that I bought NovaMind the next day !.. Today it's one of my favorite applications, always open on my desk. Amazing presentations are a great tool to transmit ideas to my colleagues... they like it !

Christophe Mongrédien : Paris, France


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