visual thinking: empowering people & organizations through collaboration

If your business hasn't already embraced visual thinking, why not? Visual thinking and drawing are both becoming increasingly important in today's business settings. A picture really can tell a thousand words. Visualization is a crucial part of the journey for companies seeking to boost enterprise agility, break down silos and increase employee and customer engagement. Visualizing thought processes can help break down complex problems. It empowers teams and staff to build on one another's ideas, fosters collaboration, jump-starts co-creation and boosts innovation. This book will help brush aside misconceptions that may have prevented you using these techniques in your workplace. You don't need Van Gogh's artistic talent or Einstein's intelligence to harnass the power of visual thinking and make your company more successful. With the right mindset and the simple skills this book provides you the skills to develop your own signature and style and start gene¬rating change by integrating visual communi¬cation into your business setting. Willemien Brand has turned her passion for drawing and design into her life's work. She graduated with distinction from the prestigious Design Academy Eindhoven and enjoyed an awardwinning career as an industrial designer with ATAG Keukentechniek before setting up the successful design studios BuroBRAND and BRANDbusiness. To be able to help other people unleash their creativity and use it to achieve better results in their work gives her joy and renews her passion for drawing. Now she shares this passion with companies throughout the world as one of the leading figures in the visual communication revolution.

If your business hasn\'t already embraced visual thinking, why not? Visual thinking and drawing are both becoming increasingly important in today\'s business settings. A picture really can tell a thousand words. Visualisation is a crucial part of the journey for companies seeking to boost enterprise agility, break down silos and increase employee and customer engage¬ment. Visualising thought processes can help break down complex problems. It empowers teams and staff to build on one another\'s ideas, fosters collaboration, jump-starts co-creation and boosts innovation. This book will help brush aside misconcepti¬ons that may have prevented you using these techniques in your workplace. You don\'t need Van Gogh\'s artistic talent or Einstein\'s intelli¬gence to harnass the power of visual thinking and make your company more successful. With the right mindset and the simple skills this book provides you the skills to develop your own signature and style and start gene¬rating change by integrating visual communi¬cation into your business setting. Willemien Brand is a founder and one of the managing partners of BuroBRAND. After graduating with distinction from the prestigious Design Academy Eindhoven, she began a successful career as an industrial designer with Atag Keukentech¬niek, where her work won several Red Dot design awards. Willemien is now one of the leading figures driving the growth of visual communication in the Netherlands.