Friday, November 19th, 2010
Wouldn’t it be great if there were signals for managers, investors, savers and for politicians that would be as clear as a red light is for drivers and pedestrians? Clear correlations between signal and action, however, are rare. The discussion about rating indicators has recently added fuel to the fire instead of squelching this wishful thinking once and for all.
Friday, October 29th, 2010
Some charts need more than 1,000 words. Yet, sometimes, seven words can be more effective than a chart. Today, we will put an end to the myth that all charts are pictures – and chatterboxes as well.
Friday, October 8th, 2010
The trilogy is complete: We have published sparklines in three different ways on newspaper. That’s reason enough to take a breather – and take stock of our efforts. We now understand why newspapers have to gather up their courage before they follow in our footsteps.
Friday, September 17th, 2010
Good design breaks rules, from time to time. Two such rules are: Avoid symbols in most cases and circles in all. Today two exceptions provide surprising facets of detail.
Friday, August 27th, 2010
People who expect secure forecasts are usually wrong – and those who expect an unsecure future are usually right. That applies in both games and life.
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.
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.
