We are excited to introduce the new version of iMindQ for desktop devices running on Windows and Mac OS X. iMindQ 7 offers new features and improvements that aim to improve the user experience and support generating and sharing of knowledge and ideas. The new features include...
Motivated employees can truly make all the difference. It is important for employers and managers to know what exactly their team needs, what their concerns are and what drives them forward in order to make more productive team members. No two employees are the same and good...
After its debut a few months back, the iMindQ Online web mind mapping application has a new and improved version. iMindQ Online version 1.3 offers great collaboration functionalities, which include import from MindManager (.mmap), MindMeister (.mind), XMind (.xmind), FreeMind...
Not everything is about money. People have other sound reasons for going to work and doing their jobs than earning a pay-check. To name a few, there’s self-fulfilment, personal and career growth, social interaction, and satisfaction. Employers and managers know...
After the 2008 financial crisis, productivity went down. People became extremely busy, chasing shadows and praying for a change. ‘Busy’ is a term that has been overused to the extent that it has lost its meaning. People normally have the notion that so long...
A SWOT analysis is a way to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats inherent in your business, project or team. It’s a good way to start a strategy session as it opens up plenty of discussion and prompts you and your team to think creatively about...
“Most individuals want to make a difference, especially top technical talent,” said Tim Wasserman from IPS Learning during his presentation at the PMI Global Congress EMEA in London last month.
As a leader, you want to project your best self and you want to get the best from the interactions you have with others. You don’t want to walk a labyrinth to get from point A to B, but instead, you want to take the easy path, which isn’t always straight, but...
Just as mentioned before, when we talked about how mind mapping can help you stay more competitive, а mind mapping software provides business executives and top managers with a unique set of visual modeling tools; thus enabling them to easily manipulate information,...
What if you could save yourself lots of time researching topics and creating mind maps? It doesn’t take long to pull a mind map together but when you are busy, every moment matters and automating some of the research tasks can give you a head start on creating your...
Last, but not least is the part where we can elaborate more about Visual Tools. These are intended to aid you to view in real-time the status of decisions and give a global panorama to the team on the impact that their decisions will have on the whole project.
To make a successful business decision you need to clarify your processes and the collective tools that you will use to support the decision making process. The installation of these tools and processes takes a bit of time, but only the first time. Then you will become much...
“I’m sure you can come up with something – think outside the box.” How many times have you heard that? It’s great advice, but what does it mean and how do you actually do it?
When we think about creativity, we often come back to the idea of...
Let’s talk about decision making. In my hometown, Delft (The Netherlands), a beautiful new railway station has just opened (station hall and municipal offices are located above a new underground train station). Designed by the renowned architects of Mecanoo, it may be...
Being successful today in any organization requires you to differentiate yourself, to separate yourself from the pack of people with similar backgrounds and career experience. To paraphrase the late Steve Jobs, you need to “think different.”