History has shown that mankind has been informing visually since days of cave paintings. Fast forward few years, in modern world, we are engulfed in visual messaging. Existing examples of these are in our workplace, though called differently.
Strengths
This sense of ours allow us to stretch our imagination & understand, beyond what knowledge/comprehension we bank on. Psychologist love this stuff, as it allows us to concoct higher level of representations.
What makes it so handy? It amplifies our comprehension, make it easy to be purposeful. Doesn’t say it’s easy to do. Ask the cavemen. It definitely improving our chance to make that jump and grasp that new subject or connect that dot. In an enterprise setting, it reduces our domain knowledge barrier.
Connecting Efforts
To extend this value, a concept map of sales pitch, connected to a mind map of functionality being proposed, having lineage to the efforts of technology would stand to provide insights across board. This kind of map would provide clarity of demands being raised upstream, and increased transparency of performance & accountability. Furthermore its lineage to downstream visual maps would provide substantial enterprise knowledge growth, greater capabilities of effective future designs.
Connecting Perspectives
Roles in organization have different perspectives of value chain. Their visual maps open cross learning — both vertical and horizontally, and empowers resources to cross train, as it reduces barriers of expected domain knowledge.
In all, I would say, we are going to see more of these interconnected maps, as we start to expand our comfort of managing complexities with advent of new visual tools. Beyond that, empowering all to learn faster and be productive is a good idea.
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