Business justification for updating the report layouts we use as a team as a face to our customers.

1. REPORTING LAYOUT UPDATES
from antiquated to simple

2. Overview
■ Current reporting has been slow & outdated for years
■ Updated reports let customers know we listen to feedback
■ Fast reports with clean, bright, flat colors beg to be used
■ Simple layouts with less items are more clear how to use

3. Reporting: ineffective or useful
(Matillion)

4. Reporting: ineffective or useful
(Qlik Demos)

5. Opportunity
■ Redesign all current metric and operational reporting using simple minimal yet
compelling architecture
■ By using a more user-friendly layout, customers will want to use our reports
■ Designing reports and data around what customers need shows we listen to feedback
and value customers’ opinions

6. User-friendly color schemes
(MacKay, 2009)

7. Disagreeable color schemes
(Color-Palettes, 2014)

8. Benefits and Risks of Strategic Option
■ Report-wide facelift will require less of a learning curve
■ Draw more attention from customers, advertising for us
■ Highlighting our data, shining a spotlight on the work we do
Benefits
Risks
■ Redesign of all reports will take significant time and effort
■ Potential for distract team from current workload
■ Could confuse customers normal routine for using our reports

9. Call to Action
■ Begin by submitting prototype of redesign to pre-determined customers for feedback
■ Incorporate customer feedback into system-wide report redesign
■ Show off our new, updated designs and layout to potential customers, gaining
business
■ Set a standard for reporting for other teams to follow, be successful

10. Highlighted references
■ Big Data dashboards and how to make them work for you | Matillion. (n.d.). Retrieved February 19,
2016, from http://www.matillion.com/insight/big-data-dashboards-and-how-to-make-them-work-
for-you/
■ Qlik Demos. (n.d.). Retrieved February 19, 2016, from http://us-b.demo.qlik.com/
■ MacKay, S. (2009, June 2). Need help coordinating In Colors with existing colors?The chart here also
includes 4 of the 6 NEW In Colors coming out July 1! Retrieved February 19, 2016, from
http://www.stellarstamps.com/stampin_and_scrappin_up/2009/06/need-help-coordinating-in-colors-
with-existing-colors-the-chart-here-also-includes-the-new-in-colors.html
■ Color-Palettes. (2014, May 13). Retrieved February 19, 2016, from
http://www.colourpod.com/post/85642111008/a-compliation-of-ugly-palettes-about-a-year-ago

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