Before and After Examples

This document demonstrates how the Information Mapping method can be applied to a wide variety of documents in a variety of media.

It provides examples that are written in conventional form ('Before') and then is Information Mapped ('After'). These Before and After examples demonstrate how the method can be applied to various document types, and used to convey each document type's particular kind of communication.

Important warning!

What you can see:

What you can see is the format – how the information appears on the page. While it is tempting to imitate the format, there is more to Information Mapping than meets the eye. The format is just the finished product, the 'tip of the iceberg'.

What you can't see:

What you can't see is the method used to create this format –

• the analysis
• organization, and
• appropriate use of presentation modes.

Without this method, the format cannot be effective. Indeed, cannot even be created.

The Examples

The Before and After examples include

• Memo
• Email
• Procedure
• Policy
• Process, and
• Mapped Process Converted to a Web Page

Please click on this link to open the Before and After Examples Adobe Acrobat format.