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How Can I Provide More Detailed Tracking of Revenue by Channel and Product?
In my last post, I presented a 100% stacked bar chart that can be used to track sales of multiple product lines through multiple channels. I also mentioned that a four chart deck or a four chart slide...
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How Can I Include Percentage Detail in a Revenue by Channel and Product Chart?
I promise this is my last post on the subject. I shared my charts with the Mekko Graphics user who asked me for advice. She liked what I did, but wanted some changes. She wanted to show the value of...
View ArticleMekko Graphics Available Free for Universities
Many undergraduate and MBA students have expressed an interest in using Mekko Graphics to generate charts for their case study presentations and research projects. KMA is pleased to offer Mekko...
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How Do I Display Current Revenue and Revenue Growth in a Bar Mekko Chart?
A marketing analyst and Mekko Graphics user at a high tech company sent me a data set recently. It contained projected 2012-2016 revenue for 24 of his organization’s business segments. He asked me...
View ArticleHave a Charting Question? Ask Me (‘The Expert’).
I’m excited to start an ‘Ask the Expert’ feature on our web site. Any Mekko Graphics customer can send me a charting question and I will do my best to answer it. I find it challenging and fun to dive...
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Strategic Sourcing Charts
I noticed that we’ve had several trial downloads and purchases from sourcing managers at automotive, computer and other large manufacturers. Supplier purchases can make up a large portion of costs for...
View ArticleMekko Graphics 6.0.3.1802 Release Notes
Release Date November 26, 2012 Overview—this release introduces a new streamlined installation process and fixes several bugs identified since the 6.02 release. New Capabilities Installation procedure...
View ArticleAnnouncing Our New Webinar–Building Effective Strategic Charts
I’m excited to deliver a webinar on December 11 and 10:30 (EST). My goal is to show you how to create charts like those used by top strategy professionals. I’ve noticed that the charting experts at...
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Show IT Spend by Vertical Market in a 100% Stacked Bar Chart
I found some Gartner data on IT Spend in 2010. I’ll use it to illustrate how to use our charts to map a market. My first example is categorizing IT spend by vertical market. The Gartner data list 10...
View ArticleWebinar Video and Slides–Building Effective Strategic Charts
I did my first strategic charting webinar this week. I showed a group of 80 Mekko Graphics users how to build the types of charts used by strategy professionals. My focus was on revenue analysis. I...
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Why Use a Marimekko Chart?
I had lunch with a former colleague from Harvard Business School last week. He asked me about Mekko Graphics and specifically about Marimekko charts. I think I did a good job explaining to him why you...
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Using a Horizontal Stacked Bar Chart to Track the Growth in Partisanship in...
I’m a big fan of Nate Silver and his 538 blog. In a recent post, he highlighted the increase in partisanship in the House of Representatives. Silver used this horizontal stacked bar chart to drive...
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What is the best chart for measuring the success of a segmented email campaign?
A Mekko Graphics user sent me some data on emails sent and emails delivered for an email campaign that had four market segments. He asked how to best display the data. I produced a 100% stacked bar...
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Charting Calories at Dunkin Donuts
I’m a big Dunkin Donuts fan and have been known to have a bacon, egg, and cheese to start my day. I received an email from Dunkin introducing their DDSmart campaign and pointing to me to a web site...
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Supporting Sales Management with Mekko Graphics Charts
I received the following “Ask The Expert” question: “I am VP Sales + Marketing at a company engaged in manufacturing & sales of machine tools. What type of charts will be useful in managing and...
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Charting Utilization in a Professional Services Firm
Utilization is critical to the profitability of a professional services. firm. At our IT consulting firm, we set a utilization target of 80% and shared the target and results with all of our...
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Displaying Billable Hours by Client
Professional services firms track billable hours by client and project. They are a leading indicator of revenue and profit. In my professional services weekly dashboard, I use three charts to present...
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Using a Marimekko Chart to Show Billable Hours by Client and Project
Where did we spend our billable time last week? Answering this question lets you know if you’re servicing too many or too few clients or if your dependent on a few large projects or are spreading...
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Tracking Project Backlog in a 100% Stacked Bar Chart
How much work do I have in the backlog? Is it concentrated in a few large projects or divided among too many smaller ones? In a professional services firm, the billable hours in projects that are...
View Article5 Tips for Displaying the Sales Pipeline
Last week I did a webinar that described how to use Mekko Graphics charts to build a sales pipeline dashboard. The first few charts were Marimmeko charts that displayed the current deals in the...
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