Compendium and Issue Mapping

Today I became aware that one of my lecturers, Soumitri, and a few of my classmates, all use Compendium quite a lot which makes me really happy. I think it is a great tool but more over it offers a good alternative to thoughtless mind mapping. It it a tool that has been designed around a more structured work flow for more complex problems. Issue mapping is one example

Issue mapping, in short, is the process of engaging and understanding something in a whole sense and to the degree that a solution evolves naturally from the options that have been made visible during the process. The reason this is so important is because when a problem becomes too complicated to look at from any one point of view this tool steps in to help hold the points of view and contending actins in place and allow their interaction via the structure created by the user define their use.

The details, however, are not something I am too familiar with. How a discourse turns into a map to solve complex problems and how that is then broken down into useful chunks for reporting and delegating I am not sure. This is something that I would like to learn and may well do so at a seminar with this aim at some point in my life. In the mean time I will read some stuff to work it all out.