The recent article by McKinsey addresses the challenges the Chief Information Officers face in managing corporate information and knowledge.

The ability to transform data into insights to help manage a company is the domain of corporate business intelligence, which consists of the processes, applications, and practices that support executive decision making.

It’s a challenging mission because for all the data flowing through companies, executives often struggle to find the information they need to make sound decisions.

At the heart of these difficulties are inadequate executive information systems, supposedly designed to help top management easily access pertinent internal and external data for managing a company.

We can all relate to the magnitude of this problem. The sheer volume of information itself has become a challenge and managing this vast pool of information is another challenge. And then is the crucial issue of dynamic and contextual access to information across corporate systems.

  * This mind map was produced using Comapping online collaborative mapping software with Context Organizer automatic summarization.

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Brian Friedlander from Assistive Technology writes:

I guess the real "aha" moment is the creation of a knowledge map with a couple of clicks of the mouse.

Brian relates the "aha" moment to the fact that a web page or a document can be instantly converted into a mind map. The automatic map generation is driven by a powerful text mining product from Context Discovery.

Keywords and summaries are accurately extracted and the mind mapping software renders them into a map.

The automatic map generation frees the user from time-consuming map charting while providing more opportunity to focus on shaping and editing the visually mapped information.

Providing accurate and concise presentation of the original text’s most important points speeds up the mind mapping process.

Summarization is a powerful add-in to the knowledge worker’s toolbox. 

 Here is the automated mind map of Brian’s post: Context Organizer is now Integrated with Comapping

  * This mind map was produced using Comapping online collaborative mapping software with Context Organizer automatic summarization.

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In his new book - Linchpin - Seth Godin asks:

Why are some people easily outsourced, downsized, or freelanced into obscurity, while others have their pick of opportunities?

To answer it Godin argues that it’s more essential than ever to become indispensable - to become a linchpin. Linchpins are the essential building blocks of great organizations: they invent, lead (regardless of title), connect others, make things happen, and create order out of chaos.

The attached mind map of Linchpin was originally authored by fordprefect in Mindjet MindManager Version 8 and published on Biggerplate.  I imported it to Comapping to be able to share it as an interactive mind map.

To navigate the map just click on the + or  - markers to expand or contract the map.

* This mind map was produced using Comapping collaborative mapping software with
Context Organizer automatic summarization.

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The keyword analysis and context generation to the right of those links [after] was generated with a single mouse click. I’ve reviewed the analysis on several documents and I think it’s spot on. What’s the math telling you?

 

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As we all know, the home page is "the most valuable real estate in the world" according to the usability guru Jakob Nielsen.

The homepage is your company’s face to the world. Improving your homepage multiplies the entire website’s business value, so following key guidelines for homepage usability is well worth the investment.

So I took another look at the Context Discovery home page. Certainly you can find there a lot of valuable information and links but reading requires to pay attention. And attention nowadays is at premium.

So I decided to use Comapping, a mind mapping tool, that uses also Context Organizer - the summarization tool that we highly recommend - and present the information visually.

So here is the mind map telling what Context Organizer does together with the links to the demos showing the tremendous value of summarization in the age of information wealth.  

 Any comments are greatly appreciated.

* This mind map was produced using Comapping online collaborative mapping software with Context Organizer automatic summarization.

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Gene Bellinger uses Comapping - a mind mapping application - to manage numerous projects and collaborate with  geographically dispersed  teams.

Comapping recently added a feature that automatically creates mind maps from web pages and documents. The feature is called “Analyze”. Gene decided to give Analyze a spin. Here are his comments in his SystemWiki.org blog: 

While I have been continually amazed by Comapping they just added a new feature that is most amazing and for which I think experience is the only way to grasp the full utility of. The feature is called “Analyze”.

Imagine being able to attach a URL to a node in a mindmap and then telling the software to analyze the content of the node and build you an outline of the content based on an analysis of the relevance of the content.

Hard to grasp? I found it difficult to understand until I tinkered with it for a while. I’m still amazed! And you can attach a text, word or pdf document to a node and have it do the same analysis and build a content outline based on relevance directly into the mindmap.

If anybody is interested in learning how Analyze works with Comapping, here is more information about the Analyze feature in Comapping. And here is more information and examples of the auto-mapping capabilities.

On this day - February 20, 1872 - the New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art opened.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.

Here is a summary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art  article in Wikipedia. The automatic summarization is done by Context Organizer and the mind map is rendered by Comapping. 

You can easily open any of the keywords and read the details.

* This mind map was produced using Comapping online collaborative mapping software with Context Organizer automatic summarization.

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Hypershiter, visual mapper and a blogger Wallace Tait writes about adding context to mind mapping. The point in case is the recent integration of Context Organizer with Comapping. Wallace writes:

The point of extracting context from Web Pages and documents is quite simple; we are overloaded with data, information and knowledge and we need to get to the point of the barrage of data that attacks us daily.

For the academic, the use of Comapping with Contextual Organizer will be invaluable, as the cloud gives you the ideal medium for creating, managing and sharing information and knowledge with your colleagues and students within a protected cloud space.

For the business user Comapping can become a very convenient information carrier and knowledge mapping tool; becoming a standard process and system tool for creating all relevant information associated with your business management system.

The addition of Contextual Organizer now gives you the ability to research Web Pages. With the insertion of a URL you’ll be offered an “Analyze” button and voila, the Contextual engine which uses the Amazon server extracts the contextual relevance for your research purposes.

 * This mind map was produced using Comapping online collaborative mapping software with Context Organizer Analyze auto-mapping add-on.

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