Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Dear marketing, we business people don’t need ISO norms or balance sheet guidelines to understand things better. Therefore please leave the color red to us. Because it means something. The same thing that it means everywhere else – namely, danger.
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Sparklines are eloquent, but monosyllabic. Literally. Dealing with line breaks is anything but easy. We explored these and other challenges in writing with sparklines.
Friday, June 25th, 2010
Sparklines are a breathtaking intellectual delight. Especially on paper. Now we have also tried it on newsprint. In Traffic News-to-go.
Friday, June 4th, 2010
There are many reasons why the fans of analog media have nothing to fear in a digital world – aside from the fact that you can’t wrap a fish in an iPad. But the even our digital world will no longer be what it once was. Why? Because the iPad is so analog.
Friday, May 14th, 2010
In BI, we often talk about steering and control. But who is actually steering – and what? Aren’t we just constantly adapting ourselves? Notes from a conversation about our understanding of management information.
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
“Die Welt” recently made a first attempt to use sparklines. Shrunken graphics with dubious references and problematic scales, however, were the result. Too bad! The good news, however, is that the race for the first sparklines in a German newspaper is still on.
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
This is a digital plea for analog media. We don’t just need paper on Fridays. And paper has a long future ahead – and for much more than just wrapping fish.
Friday, March 12th, 2010
“Radical” is a word that has many different connotations – many of which are not exactly gentle. Today, we’ll use it again to describe the next necessary steps for management information. And we can learn what radical really means from the story of an old house.
Friday, February 19th, 2010
Monitors are not made of paper. But since real time and interactivity only exist in digital form, paper is much less tolerant than you might think. Our wish is to combine the advantages of both media forms.
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
No one likes to get lost in a strange place. That’s why we pay extra attention to where we are headed. In fact, I learned a lot from traffic signs on a recent trip abroad.
Death to business charts!
Why business charts must die
Graphic tables
Lay back and control
Industrial reporting
Production-like efficiency for management reporting
Can we drive companies
like we do cars?
Against dashboards, speedometers and traffic lights in Controlling
Business Intelligence 2.0
modest, serious, sincere
Rediscovering slowness
Sparklines make us John Franklins in management information.
Good reporting is boring
Looking for excitement?
Try a night on the town instead.
Are sports fans smarter
than managers?
Management reports need to become more dense and dashboards more rare
The myth of data mining
Why men don't buy beer and diapers at the same time.
Numerical blindness?
I wouldn't see a doctor, if I were you.
Dr. Nicolas Bissantz
is founder and General Manager of Bissantz & Company GmbH
and master of Bella, the info viz expert.
