The PowerPoint Killer

Yes, I know. I win at buzzword bingo, but please hear me out. I’ve recently witnessed a project that was able to ditch PowerPoint presentations for reporting and replace them with a visualization tool. That itself is pretty cool and admirable  but not my biggest takeaway. <h1>Why you might want to ditch PowerPoint for reporting</h1> PowerPoint is too flexible. It’s a blank canvas that can display anything you might want. While that sounds like a great feature, it’s a disadvantage in this case. PowerPoint reporting allows its users to define the story they want to tell, decide which details and numbers to include and which ones to hide or even change. That can be a powerful approach but it isn’t if you want to be data-driven. If you want to be data-driven, you need to see the data and not an interpretation of it that suits someone’s agenda. <blockquote> Show it to me like I’m 5? No! Show it to me like I have a university degree in the field and several years of work experience </blockquote> The example I saw was a company where even the CEO used the visualization tool to present updates on the state of the company and the actions moving forward that were derived from predictions based on the data. <a href="https://medium.com/@jonas.a.neumann/the-powerpoint-killer-8a69bbc7c50">Learn More</a>