Information Design – seminar
Your information is too valuable to be disregarded. How to present it to the end users most efficiently?
Learn all about charts, tables, management reports, dashboards, visual business anayses, reporting standards, fonts, colors, pictograms and communication. Get acquainted with the latest findings from the field of information design and study numerous case studies of best practice from most advanced Slovenian and European companies.
Acquire the skills to create professional business reports, regardless of whether you are using Excel, Navision, SAP R/3, SAP BW, Reporting Services, SharePoint, Business Objects, ProClarity, Cognos, Microstrategy or any other software.
Who is the seminar for?
HAVE YOU RECEIVED ANY FORMAL TRAINING ON MANAGEMENT REPORTING?
Business reports are often unclear and without focus. The charts used have low information value and do not manage to get the message across to recipients.
The reason for this lies in the fact that most people never acquired skills for professional management reporting. Instead, they base their design decisions on »gut feeling« and personal taste.
The seminar provides knowledge required by:
- controllers,
- business analysts and planners,
- financial managers,
- IT managers and BI professionals,
- project managers,
- product managers,
- HRM departments,
- PR departments,
- consultants
- and anyone else that creates reports, business analyses or dashboards,
to create successful financial, controlling, sales, personnel, PR, weekly, monthly, semi-annual, annual and other reports for the management, department management, profit centers or franchises, company owners and other shareholders, the public, the customers, the suppliers, and other recipients.
Program
Goran Kristan, Member of the board, Sportina Group:
“Information Design” is one of the rare workshops that makes it possible to use the presented examples in practice immediately.
The workshop offers concrete examples on how to present the key indicators of the company’s success, how to make them clear and useful, and how to get the information for further business decisions across. By all means useful and recommendable!
- DATA-INK THEORY
The first step in report design is to make it legible. Your goal is not an artistic impression, but solely the clarity of your report. We will systematically present the basic elements of professional visualization. - METHODS FOR EFFICIENT COMMUNICATION
With reports, analyses, charts or tables, you want to deliver a message to someone. What is your message? We will explain the meaning of a message and present the methods that make efficient messaging possible. - BE HONEST
We will get familiar with the Lie Factor and analyze examples of reports that intentionally or unintentionally deceive the recipients into making the wrong conclusions.. - INCREASE INFORMATION DENSITY
In reports you need to visualize more information, not just add color and special effects to simple statistics. How to achieve a better information density without the report clarity suffering? We will learn how to get more information across in a shorter report. - IMPLEMENT REPORTING STANDARDS
Using consistent notation makes the reports as readable as traffic signs. It is important to unify the appearance of all reports within a company, therefore a reporting standard is required to make rules about the use of colors, shapes, terms, pictograms and other elements. - CHOOSE APPROPRIATE CHARTS
Different charts are suitable for different reports. Which chart to use in which case? Numerous tips and examples of how to present plan divergence, price movement, timelines, profitability analysis, margin analysis, contribution analysis, portfolio analysis… - TABLE DESIGN
Tables can be very suitable for displaying quantitative information. But if we design them inappropriately, all we create is an illegible mass of numbers, making it hard for readers to make sense of it. Using some simple rules, we will be able to create exceptionally clear tables. We will also show how to enhance tables with visualizations thus creating some of the most useful management reports. - BUILDING DASHBOARDS
Dashboards are becoming an increasingly popular tool for communicating business information. A dashboard is an interactive system of reports, but will only be efficient when built in a well thought-out manner, designed efficiently and when having a good interaction basis.
The program lasts for 4 (short version) or 6 training hours (full version).