Q: Can argument mapping be used in strategic planning? A: Of course! – because strategic planning involves complex arguments, and argument mapping can help whenever you have to deal with complex arguments. However to move beyond that sort of trite proclamation, it is useful to have concrete examples of how argument mapping can enhance a [...]
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Argument mapping in strategic planning
Posted in Argument, Argument Mapping, Austhink, bCisive, Mapping, Planning, Strategy on July 11, 2011 | 4 Comments »
What is visual deliberation?
Posted in Argument Mapping, Deliberation, IBIS, Mapping, Visual Deliberation on September 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Recently I’ve started to use “visual deliberation” as a catch-all term for the various mapping techniques and activities we use in our activities at Austhink (argument mapping, IBIS-based issue mapping, etc.). Happily, the more I use it, the more apt it seems. What we’re typically doing is helping people to deliberate more effectively, and [...]
Interview in “The Reasoner”
Posted in Argument Mapping, Intelligence Augmentation, Mapping, Rationale, Reasoning on February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The free online magazine The Reasoner has recently published an interview with me in their February 2010 issue. Much of it is discussing argument mapping and its uses. However the first third or so of the interview covers my earlier work in the foundations of cognitive science (distributed representation, dynamical systems and such topics). Thanks [...]
Simple but not easy
Posted in Argument Mapping, Decision mapping, Hypothesis mapping, Mapping, Thinking on May 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“As I have said many times, it is simple, but not easy.” – Warren Buffett. Buffett is of course talking about investment, but the same seems to me to be true of mapping (whether of the decision, argument or hypothesis variants). The principles are simple enough. What for example could be simpler to state and [...]
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