The content of the online training session organized by IBSS includes ways to design comprehensible reports using universal IBCS standards for reporting and presenting business analytics.
IBSS used to organize IBCS seminars every year to address issues on reporting standards; however, it suspended the seminar organization this year due to Covid-19 restrictions and organized an online training instead, in collaboration with IBCS Institute. The content of the subject training had an emphasis on ways to design comprehensible reports and dashboards using International Business Communication Standards (IBCS) and the instructor of the training was Ms. Esin Özkan, Head of Front-End and Advanced Analytical Applications at IBSS.
90 people from 80 companies participated in the online training program. Participants came from numerous departments including IT, Reporting, Sales, Marketing, Strategic Planning, Budget&Consolidation, HR, Financial Affairs&Finance, Purchasing, Production, Audit and different hierarchy levels such as recent graduates, interns, managers, directors, general managers and consultants.
The training “Solid, Outlined, Hatched: Visual Consistency in Reports and Dashboards” covered ways to design comprehensible reports and dashboards that are easier to understand by using International Business Communication Standards (IBCS). Participants of IBSS‘s training discovered ways to improve reporting using IBCS guidelines.
The training organized on March 16 was based on 4 fundamental questions:
- What can we learn from the rules of disciplines that use a standardized language such as Music/Engineering?
- How can we enhance our speed of perception by using consistent visuals?
- Why does visual consistency require standard design/spelling rules?
- How can you make a difference in your reports even by applying only 5 rules of IBCS?
What is IBCS?
IBCS is a non-profit organization that aims to create a common international language by proposing conceptual and visual standards applicable to business communications. IBCS standards comprise of 7 rule sets under three pillars of rules: Conceptual Rules, Perceptual Rules, Semantic Rules. The standards are referred to as SUCCESS rules which correspond to the initials of each rule set. The reporting process according to IBCS standards roughly consists of these step: conveying a message, organizing the content by forming a storyline, choosing proper visualization, simplifying the design, increasing the information density, ensuring visual integrity to avoid possible misleading visuals and applying the principle of visualization of similar content in a similar manner.
