In 2016, while Hughes was doing consulting for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one CDC member realized that the agency’s framework for evaluating completed programs - a smoking cessation initiative or opioid intervention measure, for instance - might be easier to engage with if it were filtered through a mind-mapping lens. PART II: 14 Mind-Mapping Software and Tools to Try in 2021Ī mind map for the first step in a program evaluation process - engage stakeholders - created by Biggerplate for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This story is part of a series about mind mapping.

So we asked him to choose a few examples from the archives that illustrate the technique’s power in business contexts and to lend a bit of advice for how the uninitiated can get the most out of each.

“SWOT analysis, PESTLE analysis, the seven Ps of marketing, any kind of brainstorming processes - all absolutely belong, in my view, in any kind of mind-mapping software,” said Liam Hughes, founder of Biggerplate, a community and library of mind-mapping examples and templates.Īs a longtime mind-mapping consultant and proprietor of the site, which was founded in 2007, Hughes has seen more mind maps than even most of his fellow enthusiasts.

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