About Buzan Online

Buzan Online was founded up in 2006 by Chris Griffiths and Tony Buzan based upon a shared vision – to produce a computer based tool that accurately reflected the true nature of Mind Mapping.

Chris first discovered Mind Maps back in the early 1990s and was instantly inspired by their immense capacity to enhance any type of task from planning and organising to learning to writing. Whilst Chris Mind Mapped in both his personal and work life, he felt hindered by paper based Mind Mapping alone and sought a way to combine the freedom and flexibility of technology with the creative nature of hand drawn Mind Mapping.

From that point he set himself the goal of replicating the brain-friendly nature of hand-drawn Mind Mapping on a computer. His aim was to open up Mind Mapping to a whole new computer-literate audience; fuel the integration of Mind Mapping into the workplace and drastically enhance people’s ‘good’ thinking skills, skills that were being dulled by the increase of computers and technology.

Tony shared Chris’ vision and a close relationship was instantly forged based on this common goal. Chris set himself the ambitious challenge of developing iMindMap.

By pulling together a team of software experts from across the world, this dream became a reality in January 2007 with the release of first early-adopter version of the software. Since then Buzan Online has gone from strength to strength with further releases during the summer of 2007, September 2008 and culminating in iMindMap Version 4.0 in April 2009.

Based in Cardiff, UK, the team has grown significantly and the business has diversified, including a range of iMindMap training courses. This has culminated in a global network of dedicated and enthusiastic iMindMap trainers helping to promote the real-life benefits of iMindMap worldwide.