Sorry, think it through. Even those brought up on "twitcher games" aren't giving PowerPoint presentations every day. But they may have to report every day: number of mortgages rejected, orders today, hits today. Nobody wants to go to a PowerPoint presentations to see
Orders taken 12-09: 552
Previous day (12-08) 533
12-09 orders as pct of YTD average: 88%
etcetetcetc....
Just think, a bar graph that has a scale 1-1000, and these lines are all about 1/2 way up. So you're going to drop what you're doing, go to a PowerPoint presentation, to see that?? And do what, as a result?? I think employees of every organization I have been part of in the last ten years have all said, "We have too many meetings that are a waste of time." Where are you??
I think more likely would be an e-mail saying "Orders dropped for the first time below 90% of average YTD for the "Yahoo!" embroidered ballcaps. This may be due to the series of downgrades for Yahoo! stock. I plan to pick up the phone and...."
You have to have =action= as the =result= of information. Otherwise, information is overhead. Haven't you seen the person with a file-drawer full of weekly/daily reports, just waiting to CYA, and nothing else???
Look, people have been making it a practice to ask for graphs every few months, since 1983, starting with the IBM PC intro (in my experience). They inevitably stop asking for them. Even the "gamers" stop, because scale, lines, pies, all hide more than they reveal TO THOSE USING THE INFORMATION DAILY. Annual reports...fine. Otherwise, nope. |
