Visible Thinking (PDF)

About the Authors. Preface: Creating the Future You Want - Causal Mapping for Individuals and Groups. Part I: What Mapping Is and Why and How It Works. 1. What to Do When Thinking Matters. 2. How and Why Mapping Works. Part II: What Do I Think? A Guide to Cognitive Mapping. 3. How not to Miss the Boat. 4. House of the Rising Fun. 5. It's a Bummer to Be JB. Part III: What Do We Think? A Guide to Oval Mapping. 6. To Merge or not to Merge - That Is the Question! 7. Small College Hoping not to Get Smaller! 8. Making the Most of our Assets. 9. A Question of Turning Around. Part IV: Summary and Conclusions. 10. Learning from the Chapters, or How Does This all Fit together and How Can I Make Use of It? 11. Benefits, Limitations and the Future of Mapping. Resource A: Glossary of Terms not Defined in the Text. Resource B: Analysing Causal Maps. Resource C: A Brief and Selective History of Causal Mapping for Facilitating Thinking and Other Commonly Used Mapping Techniques. Resource D: Additional Resources. Resource E: Listing of Process Guidelines. Index.

John M. Bryson is a professor of planning and public affairs
at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN (USA), and has
held visiting appointments at the London Business School,
University of Strathclyde, University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes
University. His research, teaching and consulting interests focus
on leadership, strategic management and the design of participation
processes. He uses causal mapping in much of this work. Professor
Bryson has published ten books and over 80 scholarly articles and
book chapters. He consults widely in the US and UK.

Fran Ackermann is a professor of strategy and information
systems at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (UK). She is
interested in working with groups (public or private,
multinationals, or small and medium-sized enterprises) on messy,
complex, strategic problems and sees causal mapping as a
fundamental aspect of this work. She has consulted widely both
within the UK and in Europe, Australia and the USA. She is
co-developer (with Colin Eden) of causal mapping software -
both for individual use and for groups - and continues to
explore means of supporting group working through IT. She has
written extensively in the area, having published three books and
over 70 scholarly articles.

Colin Eden is a professor of strategic management and
management science at the University of Strathclyde. His major
interests are in: (1) the processes of strategy making in senior
management teams, and (2) the success and failure of large
projects. He has consulted with the senior management teams of a
wide range of public and private organizations in Europe and North
America. In all of these activities he uses causal mapping as a
part of the process. He is the author of seven books and over 150
scholarly articles in management science and strategic
management.

Charles B. Finn is a management professor at the College
of Saint Rose, Albany, New York (USA). He has held teaching

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