Month: December 2010
Three questions to tell if your strategy is broken
Imagine going into a map shop and saying “You know a lot about maps, I’d like you to recommend some good ones?”. It sounds pretty silly, and it’s pretty clear that the response will be “Well, where do you want to go?”. Strangely enough, many people and organisations don’t get beyond the first question when…
Too many measures, not enough space?
A really common problem I see is that at some point, no matter how small you make the graphs and tables, you run out of space to show everything you want to show in a report or dashboard. What do you do? You can leave stuff out, but that can often unbalance the view you…
Let’s stop kidding ourselves
New research shows that we can be tricked into assuming there’s a link between activity and outcomes. Is blind optimism leading your business down a dead end?