Five Links: Visualization - by John Sumser - HRExaminer

This weeks links focus on visualization (2), Innovation, Viral Marketing and Organizational Adoption of Analytics.

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This weeks links focus on visualization (2), Innovation, Viral Marketing and Organizational Adoption of Analytics. The common thread is the future of HR. In order to communicate the onruch of human capital data, HR Departments will have to master visualization. This week’s links look at the graphic side of the question. Coming soon, the narrative visualization toolset.

Over and over again, the trick to next generation visibility and management is a better grasp of how communications flow. Crap detection and reasonable expectations set the stage. Clear thinking about whose ox is being gored, who wins and who loses in any change tells you everything about how well it will be adopted.

Balancing the need to shed assumptions with the need to understand them is central to effective evolution in our industry.

  • Visualizing Data
    Extraordinary resource for people leaning about and staying abreast of visualization trends and examples. Each month, Andy Kirk (the curator) publishes a best of the visualization web for the past month. Here’s January.
  • How Seemingly Irrelevant Ideas Lead To Innovation
    “At Reebok, the cushioning in a best-selling basketball shoe reflects technology borrowed from intravenous fluid bags. Semiconductor firm Qualcomm’s revolutionary color display technology is rooted in the microstructures of the Morpho butterfly’s wings. And at IDEO, developers designed a leak-proof water bottle using the technology from a shampoo bottle top.”
  • Is Viral Marketing a Myth?
    This piece from MIT’s Sloan School suggests that wildly viral behavior is hard to produce bu that 20% growth can be readily achieved.
  • The Real Reason Organizations Resist Analytics
    The more data and analytics, the more managers are held responsible for shortfalls. Where’s the win in that?
  • The Why Axis.
    A colection of pieces about really great visualizations. Follow this project if you want to understand how the discipline is evolving.

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