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An elevator pitch, elevator speech, or elevator statement is a short summary used to quickly and simply define a person, profession, product, service, organization or event and its value proposition. (Wikipedia)
In order to become a more fluent speaker and successful person, I'm studying this stuff. So, this is the attempt to give the elevator speech. Basic idea is in the picture below:
Elevator speech content
Guys, what do you usually do during these brainstorms with your creative team? Sure, you draw something on a white board or on a piece of paper. Often the result looks like a mind-map. Suppose, you've finished. What are the further actions? What will happen to this art?You can throw it out, memorize, take a photo and save as a file, erase it from the board and forget... An alternative thing you can do: launch the project management application on your PC and create a list of tasks and so on. So, where is a modern approach and time saving techniques?
Instead of drawing on a board or a paper, you can launch one of this popular mind-mapping tools (such as MindJet Mind-Map). It allows you to create mind-map, convert it to outline or even to Gant diagram.
Looks pretty good, supports export to Microsoft Project and so on.
BUT WHY DON'T YOU USE IT DURING THE MEETING?!
Because it is inconvenient to create this thing if you're a speaker right now: you have to deal with all these menus, toolbars, keyboards and not with your team members and ideas. Sure, you can use an interactive board or tablet PC, but the problem is still here: all available software on
The hell of menus and toolbars:
OUR GOAL IS TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM.
Let's create a software for tablets and interactive boards which will allow to create mind-maps in really convenient natural way, just by drawing all shapes and connections, write hand-written text. You should draw the shape which is close to a circle shape or ellipse, square, rectangle, star, trapezoid, and it immediately becomes the shape object (smoothly drawn and pretty). You add a hand written text with a stylus - and it is recognized in one second, it is already computer understandable text. You draw a connection like a line - and result is the real connection object from the topic to the subtopic. It is easy to draw during the real life brainstorming. You communicate with people. Not with software. You're thinking of ideas. Not of menus and tools in toolbars.
Once brainstorming is done, you'll be able to export this data to any available idea representation format:
- save as a picture
- export to a simple text-based outline,
- generate a Gant diagram,
- save to Microsoft Project format
- export to MindJet MindMap file format
- etc...
This is a real productivity enhancement, saving your time.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So, I have the first set of corrections. This model works!
ОтветитьУдалитьSome tips:
ОтветитьУдалитьAlso I misused the pr. cont. tense:
Your're launchING the project management application on your PC and creatING a list of tasks and so on.
- it is incorrect to use cont. here (because of context)