Knowledge Maps - Why Maps Work

The Knowledge Map methodology has been proven to be uniquely effective in helping employees transform their thinking, resulting in significant improvement in corporate performance. Listed below, are the reasons why Knowledge Maps are effective.

1. All employees are engaged in a dynamic and energizing process, no one is allowed an opportunity to "check-out". The process really connects with employees.

2. A variety of senses are used in the Knowledge Map process

• seeing complex concepts made simple

• reading the marketplace data and questions for discussion

• touching exercise cards and placing them where they fit into the metaphor

• talking about prior assumptions and new business realities

• hearing what others have to say and reshaping a new understanding.

3. Employees are required to engage their minds.

4. Employees rely on marketplace realities to transform their thinking.

5. Employees reach their own conclusions about the information discussed. The conclusions arrived at are consistent throughout the entire organization.

6. The flow through a Knowledge Map is front-line tested to ensure that employees achieve the desired learning objectives.

7. The process allows each employee to answer the following questions:

"How does this apply to me?"

"What should I be doing different?"

8. The map‘s metaphor becomes the mental model that employees use to process new information.

9. Knowledge Maps are easily used by client subsidiaries around the world.

If you would like to read about how other companies have used Knowledge Maps to address strategic and operational issues, clickhere to go toCase Studies.