Mind Manager: The Tool for Pragmatic Strategists (2) and other matters

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Recently met Mike and Bettina Jetter, the founders of Mindjet. This Cardinal can honestly say they're superby nice people. Mike and Bettina (also their friend Mr. Swan) recently wrote a book titled the Cancer Code that brings inspiration and hope to leukemia victims.

Please purchase their book. It supports patients, families, medical teams and researchers in the fight against leukemia. A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to non-profit organizations in the United States and Germany that fund and support leukemia research.

Thank you ... Mike and Bettina for creating such an extraordinary product. Heaven knows the many wonders that'll come from your product.

Also many thanks to H. Swan of Mindjet.

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Developed a mindmap based on my interpretation of the Chinese "Nine Strategy Classics" last year. It's a technical outline of what makes a comprehensive strategy from a "top level, big picture" view.

Through my reading of the Nine Strategy Classics, the exploits of Zhang Liang and the Romance of the Three Kingdom novel, I was inspired to develop the "Next Big" Team Management Tool with some help from Mindjet's Mind Manager. It greatly assisted me in optimizing the conceptual foundation of my product.

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In the future, this Cardinal 'll present a mind map that demonstrates the basic premise of ["the product"]. It displays our concept of a "top level, big picture" view that strategically connects the small pictures to the big picture.

Many implemented projects fails due to the inability of many project teams to define and understand how their specific objectives connect to their planned outcome.

Our key concept originates from an set of ancient Chinese strategic concepts that most ppl (including the Chinese) fails to comprehend in their reading of the Chinese strategy classics.

@ the same time, not having the proper project culture and plan that allows them to collaborate as a team interdependently is the current challenge for a global company.

Thomas Friedman's New York Times bestseller "The World is Flat" points out that much of the global business world is technologically connected due to the constant state of telecommunication advancement. Not only does this increases the competitive level of labor between companies and countries, it also propels those corporations to search for the lowest cost and highest productivity.

Some of the Global 2000 believes that establishing project teams at different geographical points allows them to compete equally. The challenge is synchronizing these people to collabrate in the following activities:
* properly defining and implementing the "big picture" view; and
* the incremental sequence of "small picture" views that leads to it.

When that can be accomplished, the stage of "completing the big picture" in real time becomes quite easy.

Is that challenge a crisis or an opportunity!?

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By practicing my company's process of "connecting the small pictures to the big picture", remote collaboration teams of project implementers can operate interdependently within their project team schema and complete their mission regardless of the time zone, the technology and culture.

If Global 2000 companies knew that they can effectively outsource their work to project teams that'll operate effectively regardless of the time zone, the technology and culture, would they do it?

On the long run, the implementation of this process might lead to a potential shift within the global scheme of outsourcing. ...

Note: Mindjet's Mind Manager enabled us to optimize the tactical process of our methodology.


Thanks again to Mike and Bettina for creating such a wonderful tool.

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"... Where there's a crisis, there's an opportunity. ..." --- A humorous western interpretation of a Chinese two character phrase.

@ this moment, securing "complete advantage" of this opportunity is our dominant goal.

Concurrently, our other tangible goal is to subjugate the dominant paradigm that ["collaboration between remotely located teams is impossible".]

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"There is nothing more ... powerful as an idea whose time has come. ... " --- Victor Hugo

My team and I believes that ["our approach of strategic collaboration that operates regardless of technology, time zones and project culture"] is a powerful idea whose time has come.

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Have a good weekend!

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