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Over the last decade business intelligence design efforts have primarily focused on technical issues. BI vendors have developed a multitude of different software tools to access and report on the data. Typically those are selling with feature arguments that stress: variety, sophisticated presentation types as well shinier colours and spectacular visual effects.
Notions that are truly obstructive to the objectives of a management report according to specialists for the visual presentation of (in particular quantitative) information like Rolf Hichert, Edward Tufte, Stephen Few.
Their research shows that ignoring quantitative visual design principles can cause substantial cost resulting from managers wasting time struggling to understand the meaning and significance of the information or even worse misinterpret them and end up with expensive erroneous decisions.
Together with international matter specialists INTALIGN has developed a framework that dramatically improves the effectiveness of reports, dashboards, and data analysis tools focusing on:
1. Action orientation
2. Instant understanding and clarity
3. Recognition of interrelationships, dependencies and patterns
Those objective are achieved through the application of quantitative visual design and content quality principles like:
• Message centricity
• Avoidance of “information noise”
• Information density
• Preattentive perceptual attributes and insight
• Design (notation, colour, form, scaling) and content consistency
INTALIGN offers a combination of seminars, workshops and consulting around business information design:
Public seminars (for detailed program please follow link on the right side)
- An interactive way to learn about the application of quantitative visual design and content quality principles: how to structure management reports, effectively analyse data and communicate findings in a concise and action oriented way.
Customised workshops to improve:
- alignment between strategic goals and reporting instruments
- efficiency of current management reporting
Guideline Development
• Corporate reporting and visualisation (charting) guide lines
• Electronic corporate reporting and charting templates
• Management Dashboard design incorporateing latest design principles
• Implementation of one page dash board using SharePoint
• Implementation and Integration of templates in used standard applications (e.g. MS Office)
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"Most data displays are time-consuming, difficult to read and packed with unnecessary information and visual fluff. Numbers in tables or graph that are painfully badly designed – often to the point of misinformation – might as well remain invisible”
Stephen Few
Information Design Seminar Program 2009
Learn the principles of effective management communication:
- Action orientation
- Instant understanding and clarity
- Recognition of interrelationships, dependencies and patterns
and how to create effective dashboards in Excel:
Download Whitepaper
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