Friday, June 17th, 2011
I can’t stop thinking about Berlin. Let’s head once again into the ballroom and look up at what was once a gallery. Bank managers used to stand up there many years ago. Do we need to observe something to supervise it? What is the right perspective for viewing data?
Monday, May 30th, 2011
To find the right way in an emergency, Reinhold Messner would follow yak manure. We shouldn’t believe, however, that ‘maps’ in management reports are much clearer. We learned that and much more at the grandest ballroom in Berlin.
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Sick and tired of deceitful charts? We have developed a rule of thumb to help you test the validity of line charts. Just type in four values and you’ll probably know more than the numskull who, in most cases, unintentionally botched it up.
Friday, April 15th, 2011
Machines can travel to Mars, play soccer, and even win at Jeopardy. At our upcoming event in Berlin, we will be making a plea for more intuition and automation in management reporting – both driven by computers. Are robot controllers inevitable? Do we even want them?
Friday, March 25th, 2011
On May 27th, we will discuss the topic ‘Management between Intuition and Automation’ at Hotel de Rome in Berlin. Human intuition filters and summarizes details into signals. Business Intelligence wants to do that as well. Does management need more intuition? Does intuition need more numbers?
Friday, March 4th, 2011
Last time we talked about cause and effect in texts – without charts. This time, the effect is in the chart and the cause is in the text. And the proportions work as well: many words, some numbers, and few charts.
Friday, February 11th, 2011
Few things present effects better than a good chart. Effects – not causes. Once again, we will explore the possibilities and limitations of our favorite subject by taking a closer look at its polar opposite: a good text.
Friday, January 21st, 2011
We didn’t get around to this last year but are now delivering as promised. The second part of our year in review shows the things that annoyed us the most in 2010.
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
Business Intelligence is colorful. Our list of tops and flops for 2010 is just as colorful. In this first, upbeat part, we will show best practices that range from the backdrop of a shooting scene to the most modern business control center today.
Friday, December 10th, 2010
Engineers and architects express their requirements in technical jargon and in numbers. They use different scales to visualize different scenarios for different tasks. We’d like that as well. Here are our first steps towards creating a scale ruler for management control.
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.
