visual-literacy.org: Business

General

• This Demo-Module gives you a brief overview on the fascinating world of visualization for Business and Communication. First, you will learn about the VizHall, a key application in this tutorial. VizHall allows you to share your visual solutions with your peers and give each other feedback. Second, you will see how we perceive and process visual information in the brain. Third, an easy and entertaining way to improve your (passive) visualization skills is by assessing visualizations from others. Good Advertisement should be entertaining and insightful so we thought assessing ads might be a good starting point. Fourth, we will explore the differences between Information Visualization and Knowledge Visualization. We will look at means by which the difficult and complex content related to knowledge-intensive issues can be made clearer through visualization methods. Fifth, Meeting Facilitation is an important, but still under explored application area of visualization. You will see how visualization methods can improve the quality of meetings. Sixth, you will get an introduction to why there is trend to more visualization in business contexts. Seventh, we will investigate the benefits of visualization in the context of strategic management. Eighth, we will look at real life cases, where visualization was instrumental in facilitating the strategic management process. Ninth, we ask you to reinvent the org-chart. Tenth, we will give you an interactive challenge: can you classify and label typical conceptual diagrams correctly?

• Introduction Page
• Seven Visualization Types Page
• BREEZE-Presentation: Overview on Visualization Fields URL