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With iMindMap 11 released this week, things have been really exciting here at our HQ’s. Click below to hear why our CEO, Chris Griffiths, is so pleased to now share iMindMap 11, our most powerful version yet, with you.
Click below to get your hands on iMindMap 11, our most powerful version yet.
OpenGenius, the creators of iMindMap and DropTask, achieved a Welsh first this week when we joined the London Stock Exchange’s Elite UK. The Elite UK community includes over 520 businesses, from across 26 countries and 36 sectors, so we’re thrilled to be the first Welsh firm on this special accelerator programme. OpenGenius has already seen excellent growth globally, and we can’t wait to drive that forward with ELITE. We’re so excited to see what the future holds for us – watch this space!
OpenGenius, the company behind ThinkBuzan and DropTask, presents their Licensed Instructor Course in Applied Innovation
Our 4 day Applied Innovation course provides hands on, interactive training in effective decision making for innovation. Learn a practical process for making clear, creative and risk-proof decisions, with the tools to apply it straight away.
Founder and CEO of OpenGenius, bestselling author and international speaker, Chris Griffiths, has helped thousands of teams and individuals with his innovation tools and strategies. Now, he brings you the OpenGenius Licensed Instructor Course in Applied Innovation to get you well on your way to applying powerful innovation techniques.
The course is accredited, which means that you will be certified to deliver your own, official OpenGenius Applied Innovation training after attending. We will send you the exclusive Applied Innovation Facilitator Pack of resources which will include everything you need to begin holding your own training courses right away. Plus, you will receive your own profile on our website to showcase your skills and experience. An OpenGenius accreditation can help you to increase your professional status, become recognised as an expert in this field and boost your income.
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ThinkBuzan CEO, Chris Griffiths was recently interviewed by Marek Miler, from Studio Zet in the Czech Republic about how Mind Mapping can change the way you think in everyday life and in business.
1. Brainstorm the right way
Contrary to popular belief, a team brainstorming session is often the death of big ideas.
The problem is, we are all very impressionable creatures and can’t help but react to those around us. This means that a group of people sitting down to fire out ideas will essentially only be reacting to the first idea voiced out loud. The following conversation will merely be a combination of people supporting or negating that first idea, and other ideas based on associations with the first. It becomes more of an analytical session rather than one of free-flowing ideas.
There has been a definite buzz surrounding the recent Biggerplate Unplugged Conference in London. Everyone who’s anyone in the Mind Mapping world was in attendance last week; bloggers, developers, practitioners. This event even provided a rare opportunity for industry leaders to come together to discuss their predictions for the future of Mind Mapping.
Generate genius ideas that work this year with tips from GRASP The Solution by ThinkBuzan CEO, Chris Griffiths1. Brainstorm the right way
Contrary to popular belief, a team brainstorming session is often the death of big ideas.
The problem is, we are all very impressionable creatures and can’t help but react to those around us. This means that a group of people sitting down to fire out ideas will essentially only be reacting to the first idea voiced out loud. The following conversation will merely be a combination of people supporting or negating that first idea, and other ideas based on associations with the first. It becomes more of an analytical session rather than one of free-flowing ideas.
We had some fantastic news come in this week. Our CEO Chris Griffiths’ latest book GRASP The Solution: How to find the best answers to everyday challenges has been nominated for an award in the management category of the 2012 Small Business Book Awards.
Since its release in October 2011, the book’s had some amazingly positive reviews but this is definitely 
the icing on the cake! Chris is absolutely thrilled and considers it a great honour to be nominated.
The Small Business Book Awards were created to recognise and celebrate books that make a difference to small business owners, managers and start-up entrepreneurs. This is now the fourth year for these awards and the competition is getting fierce!
Chris would love to do well in this competition – but in order to do that he needs your votes! If you’ve read GRASP The Solution and benefited from it – or simply enjoyed it – then we’d be extremely grateful if you could put in your vote for it.
As the New Year approaches, the mental list of New Year’s resolutions starts to form; usually a lengthy list with the aim of dispelling annoying personal habits, or reaching professional goals – and always with a few of the usual suspects making a repeat performance from the year before.
Many New Year’s resolutions emanate from the downfalls, disasters and misjudgements of the previous year, as a last-ditch attempt to avoid repetition in the New Year. We think that by avoiding the same failures, we might somehow pave a path to a more positive outcome at the end of the next year.
CEO of ThinkBuzan and co-author of Mind Maps for Business, Chris Griffiths, argues that this reactive mode of thinking simply doesn’t cut it in the modern world. “What worked in the past no longer fits the bill so we’re being forced to ‘up our game’”.
Rather than simply avoiding making the same mistakes again, we need to be more creative and more innovative. We need to look forwards, for new opportunities and anticipating future bumps in the road. In other words, we need to be proactive.