Visualisation

Often, presentations and documents make complex points. It’s useful to convey these as a simple visual. It’s worthwhile to make the effort and do a simple visual for every slide or paragraph. Once, a retail bank asked us if they should centralise their operations. They had operations distributed across branches, regional hubs, and a central hub. After 2 months of work, this was our story: Centralising smoothens demand Centralising improves productivity Your activities are decentralised (so you should consolidate) To do that effectively, you need a few more regional hubs Centralising smoothens demand ...

I have managed to fill hard disks of all capacities within a few months. My first PC had 10MB of disk space, while I work on 140GB today (remember: that's 14 thousand times more capacity in 14 years). Both were filled within 2 months. (An aside: the number of files / folders hasn't growth by 14,000. The files themselves have grown in size. I have roughly the same number of files/folders today on my machine as I had 14 years ago.) ...

Data visualization. Examples of charts that convey a lot of information in a visually obvious way.

The Megapenny Project helps you visualise how big ‘big money’ is, by stacking pennies up. Our highly paid friends at IIM-B would earn a 6’ block of metal each year.