One person stands at a flipchart. Everyone else passes around a simple freeform diagram. The person at the chart asks questions about the unseen diagram and attempts to draw it. They don’t come close: you can’t get there from here. It’s hard to envision what you cannot see.
Imagine a more complex situation. You heard Verna Allee talking about the magic of value networks. It’s a great revision of how organizations create value. It’s also a topic you can get lost in. Let’s say you want to explain the main points to a colleague.
Take a look at Visual Insight’s journal of this month’s Mesh Forum in San Francisco. Here is a one-sheet view of Verna Allee’s talk on value networks. If you wanted to share what Verna had to say, imagine the power of being able to point to the graphic for relationships, reminders, and soliciting questions.
In the knowledge era, we are all learners; we are all teachers. Shouldn’t most of us be taking notes like this?
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