Five Ways to Use Knowledge Visualization in Your Work Right Now

We all want to work better, simpler, more effectively, right? If you are a knowledge worker (such as a specialist, freelancer, or manager) and have not considered knowledge visualization to get there, you should really give it a try. Here are five proven ways to immediately boost your planning, decision, innovation, and collaboration capacity with five powerful visualization techniques for business:

1. Draw a synergy map?of your goals or tasks to become more productive and effective. (From our book: Sketching at Work, see the link below).

2. Devise a?visual variation?to gain or share insights on an important skill (i.e., project management, decision making, feedback, strategy) or concept (i.e. blockchain, quantum computing, the metaverse). For example use the decision check visual variation to assess your own decision style and compare it with typical decision traps.

3. Sketch a?sweet spot dynagram?to identify ways to strengthen your competitive position and leverage your unique resources.

4. Visually complete a?10-10-10 dynagram?for your next decision to gain clarity on its implications in the next ten minutes, ten days, and ten months.

5. Use the?paths to success?ideation method to harvest your team‘s and your own full creative potential for unconventional problem solving and opportunity creation. (For a youtube tutorial on this in German, click here).

?Why do knowledge visualizations like these work so well as personal or team thinking and doing tools??RITA has the answer on the key?benefits?of knowledge visualization:

R ecall: a visual is remembered better than text.

I nsight: it leads to clearer understanding and new discoveries.

T ime saving: it communicates quicker.

A ttention: it gets more attention and raises awareness.?

In addition, knowledge visualization is a great catalyst for fluid and focused?collaboration.

Here are a few?pointers?to guides (in English, German, Chinese, and Portuguese) from us to get you further faster when you want to show what you know:

Visual Variation (in English)

Sketching at Work (available in English, German, Portugues, and Chinese)

Dynagrams (in German)

Creability (in German)

Management Atlas (in German)