MDP on Enhancing Organizational Efficiency using Mind Maps
MDP was organized at BMA on 5th August’14 on the topic “Enhancing Organizational Efficiency using Mind Maps” The program highlighted the importance and potential of introducing the technique of mind mapping while managing an organisation and Projects to improve efficiency by Mr. Maneesh Dutt, a well known faculty having 20 years experience in Mind Maps and Project Management. The speaker suggested organizational management to be both an art and science, requiring the use of both left and right cortical skills. He pointed out that the multitude of organisational management tools available in the market, focus strongly on the logic, measurement and have in-effect, a left-rain dominance. Thus mind-maps are the perfect approach to fill in the missing gap and take organisational management to a next level of maturity where work becomes more engaging and fun resulting in more successful projects. The speaker also shared that Mind maps are flexible and natural which mimics the functioning of our brains, hence the perfect companion t o t he discipline of or organisational management for creativity and effectiveness. Mr . Maneesh Dutt highlighted the usual practices adopted by managers to manage an organisation, implying it to be more technical and logical. He stressed upon an idea of bringing forth creativity and fun while carrying out work and projects to enhance efficiency. He clarified the participant the ‘why ’ of Mind – Mapping as a concept . He summed up by discussing the areas in which mind mapping could be effective like : Time Management, Scope Management , Cost Management , Quality Management , Human Resource Management , Communications Management and Risk Management.