Are you still measuring performance results annually? And do you wonder why people aren't really getting much value from measuring performance? (more…)

Author of "Show Me the Numbers" and "Information Dashboard Design".

Overview:

When I found Stephen Few's book "Information Dashboard Design" I was really impressed, and wanted to share this gem with you. Stephen speaks of dashboard design in our language - the language of people that use dashboards. And armed with his insights and examples, we can help our ...

Are you accidentally adopting these 8 ways to make your survey useless? Find out how to create successful surveys. (more…)

The report design working group sat around the table, sifting through the draft strategic performance report to suggest how to make it more useful. Measure by measure, they chatted and suggested and critiqued and debated:

• “this one would look better if it was a bar chart”
• “yeah, I like the three-dimensional bar charts”
• “we should add another line to this ...

We all love a chart or graphs that tells us how things are trending. And while there are lots of ways explore trends (or changes over time) in performance results, one of the most commonly used is the moving or rolling average. Are you using these? If so, you might want to find out why your interpre...

Make quantitative information useful for decision making

I have heard this book described as a really good coffee-table book. It's content, while often technical and very much focused on the theory of graphs and diagrams and data and information, very practically demonstrates the impact of how quantitative information is visually presented, and shows many alternatives...