Organizational communication across cultures with visual mapping: benefits and perils

Communicating across cultures is often a challenge: it is easy to imagine that visualization can help us overcome linguistic barriers, but it can actually do much more! The benefits of visual mapping for cross-cultural communication can be summarized in five main factors: 1. Overcoming linguistic barriers. 2. Providing double cues: When the verbal or textualContinue reading “Organizational communication across cultures with visual mapping: benefits and perils”

Knowledge mapping to save lives: happy 200th birthday Dr. Snow

March 15th 2013 was the 200th anniversary of Dr. Snow’s birth, the doctor who used visual mapping and discovered the causes of cholera! As noted by the TED blog, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is celebrating the anniversary with a series of events. What is so special about this map? Visualization expertContinue reading “Knowledge mapping to save lives: happy 200th birthday Dr. Snow”