In a world where we are increasingly challenged to perform more effectively with greater ingenuity, we need the right tools and methods to help us make the most of the resources at hand.

Idon Resources offers you a wide range of creative and visual thinking tools long recognised by entrepreneurs world wide. After many years of successful action in the field of business and management these tools are now being used by trainers, councils, health workers, designers, artists, writers, universities, students, teachers, families and children to name only a few

Visual Thinking uses colourful and stimulating visual aids to keep ideas easy to see and track at all times. The ideas are summarised verbally onto icons, capturing them in a form in which they can be easily moved around, altered and developed into patterns that reflect our thinking (IDea + icON = IDON). This provides the space for thinking where we can explore a far greater range of material in depth without losing sense of the whole or our direction.

The introduction of flexible modelling methods then help us to work with our ideas creatively, activating new perspectives and achieving pre-determined goals. This process of ideas diagramming attains better thinking through synthesising 'left brain' logical and sequential thinking with 'right brain' intuition and pattern recognition in a form that enables our mental models to be questioned and restructured.

This simple hands-on and transparent way of working with ideas rests on many years of research and testing in action.


Everyday Tasks: organise information, creative writing, study for exams, write a report, thesis or essay, planning to move house, mapping a career change
Thinking Skills: generate new ideas, combine creative and logical thinking, model new priorities and identify new options, develop new thinking skills, accelerate learning
Life: ideal tool for self-development, counselling or even getting to know someone better

Everyday Tasks: conducting meetings, decision making, problem solving, business innovation, product innovation, planning, project planning and tracking, team development, interactive conferences and presentations
Organisational Approach: strategy, creative breakthrough, risk management, change management, quality improvement, knowledge management
Thinking Skills: brainstorming, creative thinking, hexagon modelling, strategic thinking, scenario planning, lateral thinking, cognitive mapping, dilemma modelling, systems thinking, viable systems