Visualization - the Wow and Aha!

Bill Black made a statement that has stayed with me this entire trip.

Broken systems track the wrong statistics because performance indicators track the wrong variables.

I started asking what are those right statistics and how can we show a more realistic correlation. We've stripped the capacity of spreadsheets to aid in visualizing our complex challenges. The best we can hope for are X/Y axis charts to show inter-related data or statistics.

We will need truly intreactive visualiztion tools that correrlate multiple data points providing dynamic analysis.

So what could this look like?

Here are a few sites to invest some quality time. Take a comfortable seat, get a choice beverage and prepare to get lost in some fascinating statiscits (no this is not an oxymoron). I spent hours on a site called Gapminder (click on the name). This organizations deals with world poverty and development - however - it provides its software to organizations that want similarly map complex inter-related data.

Imagine potential applications for Operation Mindshift: we might collect data like the linear feet of single use drywall, the waste factor, energy use, timeline, cost of change, waste from changes and then plug in AI walls and visually watch the impact on all of these factors. We might create a similar senario with life-cycle cost providing a dynamic look of reaching break even.

One of these charts, properly defined, could tell the whole story of the difference between a collaborative process vs. the current model.

I'm eager to get feedback on this one.