Management Reports,
in particular

+ Texts

+ Tables

+ Charts

+ Graphs

+ Organizational

Elements

Charts are widely used to visually compare numbers. These charts should help to understand relationships by being seen. Tables, on the other hand, can only be understood by being read. At this point, we should discuss the approaches to the systematization of business charts.

Poorly chosen chart types and incorrectly designed charts are the most common weaknesses found in reports and presentations – please refer to the various examples from the Chamber of Horrors on the left.

An important step in the standardization of the layout of charts as well as tables in HICHERT®SUCCESS is the recommendation that all dimensions be oriented on the font size (fs). The example below demonstrates that the layout of a chart can be clearly defined using just a few measures: 0.1 fs for the line width, 0.3 fs for the text spacing to the left/right and above/below. The axes are also 0.3 fs thick; the height of the numbers is approximately 0.7 fs.

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this picture in greater resolution (1600 x

1200 px).

Here the conversions:

1 pt = 1/72 in

1 pt = 0.353 mm

1 pt = 1.333 px (with a resolution of 96 dpi)

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resolution (1600 x

1200 px).

The following overview is from 2007 and does not take the above current dimensioning concept into account.

The above 6x6 tableau is one of our attempts to classify the basic chart types typically used in management reports. 

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Please also note the example exhibits: an exhibit is more than a chart – it always has a message, an understandable title and, whenever possible, the message is highlighted.

The following is an even older version of the above tableau (from 2005):