Mind Maps

Mind Mapping is an important technique that improves the way you take notes, and supports and enhances your creative problem solving. By using Mind Maps, you can quickly identify and understand the structure of a subject and the way that pieces of information fit together, as well as recording the raw facts contained in normal notes. More than this, Mind Maps provide a structure which encourages creative problem solving, and they hold information in a format that your mind will find easy to remember and quick to review.

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The case:

Jack Emmons, CEO of Voici Brands, is visiting a Chinese factory that produces clothes for Marquise, one of Voici’s competitors. Marquise shrunk the time from fashion design to products arrivals in stores from 50 weeks to 60 days, boosting the bottom line by 20%. Marquise gained some profits by using cheaper Chinese labor, but the main source of higher profits was coming from the faster time to market. Voici is suffering from a too decentralized supply chain; each business inside the company has its own legacy, its own suppliers, and its own management. Jack Emmons is thinking about changing the supply chain. Margie Rosen is Voici’s director (more…)