Tuesday, January 13, 2009

A Million Words

If a picture is worth a thousand words, imagine the power of a visual mapping argumentation methodology. The result: cheaper, better and faster outcomes.

While evaluating tools and methodologies, (I will write about Austhink's Rationale in a future post), I came across this visual map from Robert Horn at Stanford on whether to deploy a National Missile Defense system: http://www.stanford.edu/~rhorn/a/policy/NMD/NMD.v7.pdf

Content quality aside, imagine the comparing the effectiveness of this diagram with the traditional essay format, in communicating the arguments, scope and completeness of what exists in a single page.

Q.E.D.

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