Category: Creativity

We’re so excited to announce that our highly anticipated Mind Mapping app for children, iMindMap Kids, is out now! Available now on the iPad App Store, iMindMap Kids is a fun and unique Mind Mapping tool, aimed specifically towards children in early school education.

iMindMap Kids welcomes children into the creative world of Mind Mapping, with a child-friendly and colourful design. Features within the app include branch art, draw tool, fun sound effects, snapshot camera, image gallery and a free-hand wiggle branch.

Here’s what CEO of OpenGenius, Chris Griffiths, had to say about the launch of iMindMap Kids: ‘Children are naturally creative, and this app allows them to use this creativity to support their learning and development. We’ve worked hard to make iMindMap Kids a fun place for kids to spend time exploring their own ideas, in school or at home. Children have no limitations to their creativity, something that we adults lose overtime. Give them the right tools and let’s see what they can teach us. I can’t wait to see the awesome Mind Maps that they create with the app!’

Mind Mapping has been proven to develop literacy, creativity and problem-solving skills in children. Stemming from our original tool, iMindMap, iMindMap Kids introduces children of the digital age to Mind Mapping in an easily accessible, fun and engaging app.

iMindMap Kids has already been tried and tested on Key Stage 2 children in a primary school, and the response was awesome from both teachers and students. Hannah Abbott, a year 6 teacher said: ‘My class love to use iMindMap Kids. Mind Mapping is a fantastic way for the children to organise their own thoughts and ideas independently.’

So, what’re you waiting for?

Introduce your child to the wonderful world of Mind Mapping today. Click below to download the iMindMap Kids iPad app now for just £1.99. 

It may seem that only the likes of Stephen Hawking, Arianna Huffington and Richard Branson ever generate ground-breaking ideas, and that they go through some secret, complicated process to produce them. Well first of all, you don’t have to be a millionaire CEO to be a creative genius. And secondly, there are simple, everyday techniques you can perform to tap into your creative powers and draw out your own brilliant ideas. These techniques are designed to allow your mind to wander. This means that you will come up with ideas without working your brain too hard. So let’s take a look at them…

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Looking to spark creative ideas? Our best advice is to take a break and play.

One of the key factors to any successful business is being able to come up with new ideas to keep processes, products and services fresh and to stay ahead of the competition. A very serious attitude can be harmful in the workplace; it can prevent you and your team from discovering the new idea that may lead to success. In this article, we will discuss the impact of play on creativity using four playful methods that will help you reach better creative solutions.

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Article by Chris Griffiths
 
Over the years I’ve worked with businesses from around the world, from start-ups to FTSE 100 companies, whose rules and bureaucracies have held them back from adapting to the changing dynamics of their marketplaces.
 
Despite spending time and money on implementing change, whether it’s improving customer relations or adding new products and services, they experience little or no improvement. These failed attempts at implementing innovative strategies can have a more damaging effect than not being innovative at all. If rules are never open to investigation or challenge, how can you ever break new ground? How can you see the merits of other approaches when you’re not free to look for them?
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Retired Chairman of Microsoft Europe, Jan Mühlfeit, is now the Chairman of OpenGenius’ sister company, Think Productivity. They are the creators of DropTask, the productivity enhancing application with a game-changing visual approach to task management. The company’s announcement came during their recent showcase at this year’s UK flagship digital event, ‘Digital 2015‘.

CEO of OpenGenius and Think Productivity, Chris Griffiths, said:

“Jan Mühlfeit has experienced great success during his career, and spent many years side by side with Bill Gates as they travelled all over the world. With a wealth of knowledge obtained throughout his career – as well as during his time as Chairman of Microsoft Europe, we’re lucky to have such a high profile and successful figure interested in getting involved with a start-up here in Wales. It’s absolutely fantastic for the Welsh community and in particular, our flourishing digital economy which is being showcased at this year’s Digital 2015 event – which we’re honoured to be a part of. I very much look forward to the road ahead. We’re in for an exciting journey.”
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Kick-start your creative thinking this week with these three quick and easy tips…

1. Don’t open that inbox

What’s the first thing you do once you get to work on a Monday morning? You open your email and immediately start typing out responses no doubt. While this might seem like the most productive thing to do, this kind of reactive thinking has a negative impact on your creativity and your productivity.
  
Reacting to your emails like a robot answering commands means that you’re not giving yourself time to think things through, to gather information or think innovatively. Instead, you are allowing outside influences to govern your focus. So, before you open your inbox, map out what you want to achieve this week and plan your time around it, not around your emails.

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Daydreaming at work is unheard of. It has a reputation of being unproductive and a complete waste of time. This simply isn’t true. Focused daydreaming is one of the most effective techniques for tapping into your creative powers and producing original ideas to solve any business problems. For this reason, I’m backing daydreaming in the workplace.

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