Taking notes with a mindmap helps to focus on the subject and related subjects rather than the time sequence of the meeting I read about the concept of mind-mapping many years ago and have never looked back; I use mind-mapping now...
Decision making with the Eisenhower method helps reduce the stress of decision-making by placing tasks in a grid by importance and urgency. I find it more appropriate to talk about managing priorities that managing time. I recommend the Eisenhower method to...
Kepner Tregoe Decision Analysis as developed by is a method to evaluate and score available options in an objective manner. The appropriate decision is then the one with the highest score. Clarify the Purpose State the decision What decision do we need to...
You can use your research material in Evernote to drive tasks. But what other management tools can you use to push forward actions in the direction that you wish? You may have a lot of material in Evernote as part of...
Use Evernote as the business memory to store business experience for analysis, and problem-solving. Evernote acts as a central database and business memory for everything. I use it for both work and personal subjects and like to have a landing point...
This site is about documenting management experience, providing guidelines and tips, techniques, and recommendations for using management software. I once had a project called Docbase, published on PBworks which I folded and integrated into other sites. Here I am tempted to...
The brainstorm and structure cycle describes several types of management document: issue lists, to-do lists, process and concept maps which may interact. How do you manage the vast flows of information in your company and capitalise on the creative juices of...
Changes to systems are driven by changing conditions. Such change requires system documentation to keep the business evolving in lines with strategy. The aim here is to summarise some of the issues and challenges in software systems development. The specification process,...
