Idea Management
With Mind Maps
Tap into the collective intelligence of your team to capture winning ideas and fuel your innovation pipeline.
1.2 Billion Ideas Mapped so Far
From lean startups to large enterprises — thousands of businesses around the world use MindMeister to improve their innovation process through crowdsourcing. More than 1.2 billion ideas have been generated with our idea management app to date.
Grupo JHR
Project Management
Grupo JHR use MindMeister, MeisterTask and Google Workspace apps to manage projects collaboratively across their four different businesses and offices.
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LiveBy
Product Development
LiveBy manage their product development, from design to implementation, using MindMeister, MeisterTask and Google Workspace.
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SAP
Computer Software
“We first started out using MindMeister through casual means, but it quickly became an indispensable tool for our projects.”
Read full storyMindMeister: Free Online Idea Management Software
With MindMeister, your team members not only generate more high-quality ideas but also see them through to implementation.
Ideation
Capture, group, evaluate and prioritize ideas with ease. The popular mind map format fosters creativity and inspires you to come up with new ideas by association.
Real-time Collaboration
Brainstorm and collaborate in real-time, no matter which device you’re using. MindMeister lets you invite an unlimited number of participants to your idea maps.
Comment and Vote
Discuss ideas right inside MindMeister by leaving comments. Vote on ideas to quickly identify which projects will receive the most support from team members.
Multimedia Support
Add images, videos, mockups and feature specs to the ideas in your mind maps. Use icons, colors and different topic formats to highlight and group ideas.
History View
Retrace the entire change history of your mind maps to see who contributed which ideas and how ideas developed over time. Revert to previous versions any time.
Agile Task Management
Connect MindMeister with our online task manager <a href="https://www.meistertask.com">MeisterTask</a> to turn ideas into fully-featured tasks and insert them into your innovation pipeline at the click of a button.
The Idea Management Workflow with MindMeister
MindMeister is an effective idea management tool that fosters creativity, facilitates collaboration and keeps team members engaged long-term. This is what sustainable innovation with MindMeister looks like:
Brainstorm and Collaborate
Invite your front-line employees and other stakeholders to brainstorm ideas in a mind map. Being fully web-based, MindMeister maps can be accessed via the browser as well as <a href="https://www.mindmeister.com/pages/mind-map-app">mobile devices</a>, enabling even remote team members to join your <a href="/brainstorming">online brainstorming</a> sessions and provide input.
Manage Knowledge and Ideas
Knowledge and ideas are most valuable to your organization when they are shared openly. Using collaborative <a href="/knowledge-management">knowledge maps</a>, you manage knowledge assets, ideas and information in an intuitive format that’s easy to update and supports real-time collaboration among an unlimited number of participants.
Mind mapping at its core is a graphic representation of thoughts and ideas. Based on the nature of its use and positive output, mind mapping is a method ideally suited for today’s innovation management process.
Read full case studyOutline Project Plans and Strategies
Guide innovation by creating <a href="/project-planning">visual project plans</a> and outlining your entire innovation strategy. Mind maps offer a highly engaging format that shows goals, milestones and other project-related information at a glance. Using MindMeister’s <a href="/presentations">built-in presentation mode</a>, you can also turn plans into dynamic slideshows to present them to stakeholders.
Create an Innovation Pipeline
Use MindMeister’s integrated task manager <a href="https://www.meistertask.com">MeisterTask</a> to visualize your innovation pipeline in a Kanban board. Simply drag and drop winning ideas into the board to turn them into fully-featured tasks. With a transparent innovation process like this, employees can track the progress of their ideas, keeping them engaged long-term.
