Mind map templates

Strategy & Business

Frameworks for stepping back and looking at the whole picture: where you stand, how the pieces fit together, and what to do next.

SWOT Analysis

Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, side by side. A quick shared read on where you stand.

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Business Model Canvas

Nine blocks covering customers, offer, channels and costs. How the whole business fits together on one page.

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7S Framework

Strategy, structure, systems, staff, skills, style and shared values. Checks whether the parts align.

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Prioritization Matrix

Sort work by impact against effort. Useful when there are more good ideas than there is capacity.

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Project Management

Ways to break work into pieces, agree who owns what, and keep everybody looking at the same plan.

Work Breakdown Structure

Split a project into deliverables, then into tasks. Surfaces the work nobody had accounted for.

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RACI Chart

Who is responsible, accountable, consulted and informed, agreed before it becomes a problem.

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Kanban Board

Cards moving across columns. Shows what is actually progressing and what has quietly stalled.

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Now, Next, Later

A roadmap in three horizons, communicating sequence without inventing dates you cannot commit to.

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Meeting Agenda

Timeboxed sections everyone can see, so a status meeting stays a status meeting.

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Project Roadmap

Phases and milestones laid out over time, for work measured in months rather than days.

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Process

Steps in order, with the branches and handoffs that people keep getting wrong.

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People & Org

Maps of who does what, who reports to whom, and who you need to keep in the loop.

Matrix Org Chart

For people who report into a function and a project at once. Draws both lines instead of pretending.

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Inverted Org Chart

Customer-facing staff on top, leadership supporting underneath. A deliberate statement about how a team works.

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Organization Chart

Reporting lines, top down, one box per person. The fastest way to orient somebody new.

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Stakeholder Map

Who can block this, who must be consulted, and who only needs to hear the outcome.

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Product & UX

Tools for understanding the people you are building for, and turning what you learn into something you can actually build.

User Persona

A specific person with goals and frustrations, so design arguments stay concrete.

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Empathy Map

Separates what someone says and does from what they think and feel. The gap is where the problems are.

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User Story Map

Stories arranged along the user journey, so you can slice a release and still ship something coherent.

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Customer Journey Map

Stages, actions and friction from end to end, including the parts outside your product.

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Design Thinking

Empathise, define, ideate, prototype, test. The full five stages, visible during a workshop.

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Sitemap

Pages and hierarchy mapped out before anybody opens a design tool.

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Thinking & Analysis

For the messy part: getting everything out of your head first, then finding the shape in it.

Concept Map

Ideas plus labelled links, so you have to say how things relate rather than just placing them nearby.

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Cause and Effect

Works backwards from a problem through its contributing causes, past the obvious symptom.

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Decision Tree

Branching choices and where each one leads. Worth building when a decision keeps being reopened.

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Lotus Diagram

Eight themes, each pushed to eight ideas. The later cells are where the unobvious ones appear.

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Retrospective

Start, stop and continue, ending in actions that somebody actually owns.

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Brainwriting

Everyone writes before anyone speaks, so the first confident voice does not anchor the room.

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Layouts & Diagrams

For when you already know what you want to say, and just need the right shape to say it in.

Flow Chart

Steps and decision points in sequence, where the branching is the whole point.

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Tree View

A clear top-down hierarchy, for classifications and anything with parents and children.

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Circle Layout

One topic in the middle, everything radiating outward. The classic mind map shape.

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Grid Layout

Everything parallel and equally weighted, for content with no natural hierarchy.

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Life Cycle

A repeating loop, for when the end feeds back into the beginning.

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Outline Right Align

Indented and linear, reading much like a document. Suits notes and chapter plans.

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Templates

Strategy & Business

Project Management

People & Org

Product & UX

Thinking & Analysis

Layouts & Diagrams