Software Review

When I meet people face to face one of the things that is commented on a lot is the fact that I take all my notes in Mind Maps.  This is something I started when I joined Vodafone in 1997 and after a week have always taken notes this way.  It has, however, taken the software development community a few years to catch up, but I can now say that, in my opinion, they have now provided some exceptionally useful software.

I have recently upgraded to MindManger 8 (I first used v3) and it provides a genuinely new way to present information, mindmaps as dynamic PDF’s or flash.  Previously, if I wanted to send a client a mindmap I had to send the full detail, which as a 1 page PDF was difficult to read and the links and notes were not visible.  This is now fixed, please click on the image to see an example (MS Explorer users may get a “active content” warning).

I met the author of the New Business Road Test, John Mullins, when we were both presenting at a strategy conference in 2006,  He had just launched the book and it has genuinely changed my approach to assessing business opportunities.

I created the mindmap above over a year ago as a summary for a contact and have wanted to put it on the website since, but I could not present an appropriate level of detail without losing the messages.  The key question is can readers of this post get useful information out of the map?