Enhancing your role as a standards professional

A mindmap can help standards professionals communicate the complex connections of standards development, business benefits and the details of both. Promoted by Tony Bu.zan beginning in the early 1990s, mindmapping is a spider diagram that lays out, often in a hierarchical fashion branching of a central topic complex facets of a system and how they interrelate. A key benefit of a mindmap is visually detailing and communicating relevant issues and their interaction. A user can zoom in on one part of the map that may be most relevant to a needed source of input without losing the broader picture. he mindmap itself can stimulate shared understanding and collaboration and can be further reined in discussion with stakeholders. Standards negotiations can take significant time during which needs and priorities may change.