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Nov 18, 2007

Cognitive Fitness, The Future of Work, and Concept Maps

By: Alvaro Fernandez

Some weeks ago we explained how use­ful Con­cept Maps can be to quickly visu­al­ize the key ideas in a field, and their relationships.

Let me show you this fan­tas­tic exam­ple. A few weeks ago I was inter­viewed by David Pescovitz of the Insti­tute for the Future (blog) to dis­cuss The Future of Work and Cog­ni­tive Fit­ness trends. They had an artist who drew the graph below IN REAL TIME, AS WE SPOKE. Very impressive.

Please open the full image by click­ing on it, and spend a few min­utes read­ing around, top-down, left-to right.

You will learn much about what the future may bring (will Human Resources staff become “Cog­ni­tive Resources Man­agers”?), and also how to dis­play com­plex infor­ma­tion in beau­ti­ful visual form.

 

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Kudos to the Insti­tute for the Future, an inde­pen­dent non­profit research group,  for a fas­ci­nat­ing event on The Future of Work.

Credit for the Map: Anthony Weeks, from Grove Con­sul­tants.

(Dear RSS read­ers: I’d really appre­ci­ate if you could Digg this post. You can find the Digg but­ton if you visit this post in our blog. Thanks!)

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9 Responses

  1. Andreas Engvig says:
    November 19, 2007 at 10:47

    Great map.. I want to learn to draw that kind of maps also! :)

    Best,
    A

  2. Shafie says:
    November 21, 2007 at 6:13

    Hi Alvaro

    I’ve also sub­scribed to your newslet­ter. So far, I’m really lik­ing what I see.

    Any­way, that is indeed one truly mag­nif­i­cent con­cept map. It truly con­denses the essence of the sub­ject mat­ters in sim­ple, com­pre­hen­sive & infor­ma­tive form. It also really helps that the artist used numer­ous graph­ics, draw­ings, sym­bols and colours to high­light var­i­ous points.

    On the points brought up, I agree with most of them espe­cially the part about resource train­ing and devel­op­ment being web-based.

    Once again, a won­der­ful post. I’ll be check­ing in more often so I sin­cerely hope to see more.

    Best Regards
    Shafi’e

  3. Alvaro says:
    November 21, 2007 at 12:15

    Glad you enjoyed it, Shafi’e. Thanks for your comment.

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    November 27, 2007 at 1:47

    […] Alvaro Fer­nan­dez presents Cog­ni­tive Fit­ness, The Future of Work, and Con­cept Maps posted at Sharp­Brains, say­ing, “What the future may bring to enhance our productivity” […]

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    December 3, 2007 at 12:30

    […] Alvaro Fer­nan­dez presents Cog­ni­tive Fit­ness, The Future of Work, and Con­cept Maps posted at Brain Fit­ness Blog. What the future may bring to enhance our productivity. […]

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    […] Alvaro Fer­nan­dez presents a fun and infor­ma­tive graphic to illus­trate Cog­ni­tive Fit­ness, The Future of Work, and Con­cept Maps, posted at Brain Fit­ness Blog. Will pro­duc­tiv­ity experts have to become graphic artists? […]

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    […] Cog­ni­tive Fit­ness and The Future of Work: an excel­lent con­cept map on how neu­ro­science may influ­ence the work­place of the future, drawn in real time as I spoke at an Insti­tute for the Future event. […]

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