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, 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, May 29th, 2009
Controlling guerillas aren’t being turned away at palace gates anymore. Discover why that is as well as other lessons learned at our Executive Forum last Monday in Berlin.
Friday, May 15th, 2009
There is an exception to every rule. Even circles, which we usually blame, are sometimes worthy of acclaim – especially in combination with graphical tables.
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.