Example Reflection – Visualization

Challenge

One of my company’s subsidiary has planned an organization which aims to be shared ideas about  common topics between my company and them. Only 10 minutes has been allocated for our  team to tell how we manage our business, so we had a strong challenge with time restriction.

Selection

Vast amount of number have been obliged to tell, since our profession is revenue management. In  order to transfer our knowledge to others, being coherent and persuasive was our main focus, and  visualization method fitted well for that focus

Application

As I mentioned in “Selection” part, a great KPI pool will have been told. We have planned our  presentation flow before and decided to tell our subject in 5 slides: main KPI’s, history of them, what  we did before, what we are planning to do, and KPI projection.

Pie chart was the best way to show all KPI’s and their share in one scheme, so first slide included a  pie chart. In order to tell the history of any KPI, bar chart was suitable. Nevertheless, template graphs  in MS applications like pie chart and bar chart was insufficient to express the action history and new  plans. There are some free presentation templates on web, and 24slides.com is one of them. That  website has helped us to prepare our 3rd and 4th slides with aesthetic visuals. Finally, KPI projection  was similar with KPI history, so bar chart was used for the last slide.

Insight & Approach

In case vast amount of numbers are obliged to tell and time limit is a challenge, visualization tool is  useful for a clear presentation. Even if you tell missing parts about your presentation, visualization  prevents that possibility and help you to leave a perfect perception to the audience.

