NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia, 10/04/2006 - What is Brainstorming?. Answers an age old question of how to take your ideas and build them into simple blue print plans and how MindMapper software can achieve this for you.

Brainstorming has in the past been given negative press!. All that paper stuck over walls, PC’s Fridges and any where else we can think of to “jog our memories” or to plan those simple or complex tasks from grocery shopping to increasing sales by 10% all with illegible notes with no structure or direction to them.

You spend many hours of planning something individually or in those dreaded business meetings of which most never gets achieved no matter how good the suggestions or ideas.

To some degree we all know brainstorming and what it is but nearly 95% of people or businesses do not know how to document it or the best way to use and place those ideas into plans or business.

However effective brainstorming can increase productivity by making valuable breakthroughs from all involved.

When you have people bouncing ideas around that can be captured and filtered in an easy visual format you will guarantee higher productivity and ultimately profits.

With simple techniques and goal planning that create a feeling the whole team is involved and can see in plain visual format exactly what needs doing to achieve those results.

The Usual approach to Brainstorming:
We have all used them! post it notes, flip charts and huge white boards that look like road kill once we have poured our ideas out all over them.
Very cumbersome that requires hours afterward to be properly understood and concluded with this many brainstorming sessions fail!.

Despite all those “power ideas” being discussed there is rarely the follow up done and the key actions never ceased on. The result ideas get forgotten with time and other “brainstorms”.

With MindMapper Brainstorming has been completely resolved and you will never lose another idea or thought that could be the next breakthrough to leapfrogging your competitors.

Using MindMapper to Brainstorm:
When you have a simple yet powerful software in place like MindMapper you have a process that not only captures those ideas, information and processes.

MindMapper does so in a simple visual format that ensures you will succeed in your objectives.

MindMapper is the ultimate Brainstorming tool, it allows you to progress your Brainstorming into crystal clear information that is easy to see and read making it child proof to understand.

Your ideas and information is gathered and structured automatically in a visual map. This visual map is easy to collect and collate information.

Try this! In your next Brainstorming session (business meeting, project planning session or even your shopping list) use MindMapper encourage all involved to contribute all ideas no matter how small, irrelevant or grand they may seem encourage feedback applaud ideas from all involved and place this all into your Map.

When you have MindMapper open create the ultimate objective of your Brainstorming session in the centre heading and then bounce ideas and add new branches with each aspect needed to achieve this (Tip- use Keywords for your main headings in these branches).

Then create sub branches to break down each idea further needed to achieve those creating branches and sub branches is a snitch just click on a branch type and hit enter and so on with each sub branch.

Add notes to each idea! Click on the branch or Sub Branch and add your note in the text box at the bottom of your map. (TIP- only use bullet points of the idea in your notes to keep the flow of the idea or information coming)

You will notice before long that there are many branches and sections with sub sections making your map look larger than needed to be working on all sections.

Break these down, collapse some of the branches of the map so only the “key objectives” are showing that are needed to complete the main objective. You can always go back to each individual section to “storm” some more at another point. The key factor here is that you will have all your ideas and information to your main objective within a couple of clicks.

This also makes it simple for you to go back to an idea that was discussed earlier no more scrolling through notes and interrupting the brainstorming process.

During your “Brainstorming” if you decide a certain idea would be better in another section or you want to use that idea in all areas to achieve the main objective simply “drag and drop” your idea into that branch.

Enhancing your Brainstorming session:
Typically this is where other Brainstorming methods and software begins to fall short of MindMapper.

Information overload with traditional MindMapping methods your map gets messy the information is all over the place and cannot be accessed easily creating a bottle neck in the brainstorming process.

Not with MindMapper. MindMapper can analyse and break down all those ideas and information into branches and then quickly click on the branch (objectives) and decide which are the critical or most significant which ideas are most relevant and which is the background information required.

By doing this you already have saved hours in time and probably money (staff time, resources). Without hardly any effort on your part to gain there input.

The nearly finished Map!
When you have completed your brainstorming session your map can then be broken down to a crystal clear set of blue prints, you can then begin to allocate tasks and information to people who will be working to achieve to complete the main objective. You will find that all the ideas and information discussed can be sent to all involved allowing them to remember each specific task of piece of the map they need to complete. Each person can then access the map with MindMapper on there workstations and begin the process of achieving the main objective. (here is where sub maps are encouraged to them to keep the brainstorming process going)

Wow you have just saved countless hours and increased your productivity can you remember doing all this without MindMapper! Gathering all information and allocating the “branches” to be completed for your success in the key objective. None of this is possible with out MindMapper. Well it is but why waste a few weeks and half a rain forest in printing.

Once the map is complete- then comes the action and communication planning:
To ensure that Maximum results from MindMapper and ensure that all those ideas and information gathered in the brainstorming session are not just shop talk, you need to decide on a plan of action.

You can achieve this using the legend in MindMapper. You will notice on the right hand side of MindMapper there are symbols (legends) and color codes that can be used to break the map down to Action each part of the brainstorming session.

You can allocate people to each objective (or task that it has now become) by color or by priority. (1-10) Add resources that may be needed to achieve this. You can also add documents for reference or hyperlinks to information sources.

MindMapper allows you to then act on your brainstorming session in a number of ways. You can export your save your map on the network so it can be accessed and action taken and update the map after each component has been completed.

Once you have completed your Brainstorming session you may want to create this in a presentation or report. With MindMapper you have a variety of options to do this. including exporting to MS word (report writing) MS PowerPoint.

So MindMapper can not only take your brainstorming sessions to real life goals it can make those things happen today!.

So why waste more time and money on planning non starting ideas use MindMapper today and get ahead and Explode your productivity and ultimately your profits! Visit our website to learn more or download a full 30 day evaluation.

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