MindMapper Application Guide

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MindMapperApplication Guide
SimTech Systems, Inc. www.mindprocessor.com
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MindMapper

• Innovative tool for improving business
  productivity in the age of knowledge and
  information
• Minimize communication cost between your brain
  and your PC. In other words, between thoughts
  and applications.

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Corporate Examples

• Administration
• Operation planning and Action Plan
• Speech draft preparation
• Six Sigma application
• Marketing plan
• Decision making
• Planning
• Business Plan creation
• Home Page planning
• Work Breakdown structure
• Idea expression
• New Product planning
• Event planning
• Risk Management structure

• Management
• Team management
• Customer management
• Role/Position transfer planning
• Classified organization
• Org chart
• HR management
• RD
• Manual creation
• Help creatin
• BOM
• Sales
• Sales status
• Sales management
• Consultation

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Meetings

• Typical meeting consists of many people and many
  thoughts.
• Challenging to quickly organize all ideas in
  traditional linear fashion
• Need to identify core ideas and their respective
  sub-ideas.

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Meetings (contd)

• Use the title of the meeting as the title of the
  MindMap
• Use each core idea as the top-level branch
• Sub-divide each top-level branch into more
  detailed suggestions and ideas
• Final map can be imported into Microsoft
  Word/PowerPoint/Project, and/or can be emailed to
  each participant.
• Hardcopy of the map becomes the minutes of the
  meeting.

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Open Discussion

• Moderator needs to quickly organize new ideas
  being floated around.
• Start with meeting agenda as the map title.
• Moderator can create sub headings with each new
  idea.
• People by nature have tendency to fill in
  voids. So seeing voids in the map will let
  people focus more in those sub areas.

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Brainstorming

• MindMapper is also a great tool for moderating
  and organizing a brainstorming session.
• MindMapper can also be used remotely by many
  users, via Microsofts Netmeeting or Lotus
  Sametime.
• Remote users can view the MindMap in real time as
  the session progresses.

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Project Planning

• Not many useful project planning software is in
  the market today.
• Key to starting a project is a brainstorming
  session.
• MindMapper can keep track of an entire project,
  down to each detail.
• MindMapper supports Gantt Chart for project
  planning.
• Project map can easily be imported into Microsoft
  Project.

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Presentation

• Traditional presentation tools are good as
  standalone tools, but its difficult to bind
  together PPT slides, Excel charts, CAD drawings,
  etc. into one presentation.
• MindMapper allows a presentation to include all
  those components and more.
• MindMapper can hyperlink to other MindMaps, or to
  most industry-standard files.

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Presentation (contd)

• You can choose to show the entire presentation,
  or focus in just one specific branch of the
  MindMap.
• Each branch of the MindMap can be arranged to fit
  with the flow of the presentation.

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Business Document Creation and Management

• Use MindMapper to reduce cost in creating
  business documents.
• Each department can own a branch of the map.
• Collection of maps can be collaborated into one
  master map document.
• Easily import the map into Word document.

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Business Document Creation and Management (contd)

• Advantages of using MindMapper
• Each department can own their separate branch of
  the main map for easier support and maintenance.
• Each person can customize their own map to
  increase productivity.
• Can easily combine all the maps into one core
  map, and easily import the map into a Word
  document.
• Can view the entire document in one meaningful
  page.

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Business Planning Administration

• Start each day by automatically reviewing and
  adding notes into MyPlanner map when you start
  Windows.
• Select Start-gtSettings-gtTaskbar Start Menu
• Select Advanced tab, then Add
• Input c\program files\mindmapper3.0\mm.exe
  myplanner.map
• Choose Startup folder
• Choose Next, then Finish

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Project Management

• 1. Team leader owns the main map.
• 2. Each team member owns each branch of the
  main map and enters project status.
• 3. Team leader can link all the members sub
  maps to the main map for complete project
  overview and status.

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Document Management

• Techniques/Skills propagation
• Foreign Language
• Test Preparation
• Lesson Plan Creation
• Multimedia Teaching Materials

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Exporting to Microsoft Word

• Easily export MindMap into Word document.
• Format document automatically using styles in the
  Word template.

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Exporting to Microsoft PowerPoint

• PowerPoints natural structure of a presentation
  tool allows easy conversion from MindMap
• Each main idea of the MindMap is converted to
  each PowerPoint slides title
• Each second tier branch of the MindMap becomes a
  bullet item in the slide
• Apply appropriate PPT template to polish the
  conversion

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Using PowerPoint Templates

• PPT includes many templates, which can be
  imported into MindMapper for automated content
  generation.
• Start AutoContent Wizard in PowerPoint.
• Create a template to fit your needs using the
  wizard.
• Save the PPT file when done.
• Open the saved PPT file from MindMapper.
• Add content and export back to PPT format.

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Thesis

• Great for consolidating ideas.
• Build Map skeleton with the main ideas of the
  thesis.
• Concentrate first on ideas that are already fresh
  in your mind.
• Keep adding key ideas and content.
• Use Hyperlinks and URLs to identify and connect
  relevant materials.
• Convert to Word or PowerPoint to view finished
  document.

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Knowledge Management

• Knowledge Map
• Knowledge map is the first step to constructing a
  useful KMS.
• Allows people most familiar with the companys
  knowledge (employees) to start building a KMS
  system by building knowledge maps from their
  documents.
• Reduce cost of building extensive KMS system.

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Knowledge Management (contd)

• Preliminary preparation for KMS and improvement
  of thought constitution
• MindMapper is a product based on the concept of
  Mind Map.
• People familiar with MindMapper start all of
  their documents by drawing a Mind Map.
• Easy process to represent your thoughts in a
  MindMap