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The frameworks

Presentations

Data presentation

Turn data into understanding and then into a next step.

Presenting numbers to people who have to act on them.

Message · Application framework · No. 112

The shape

  1. Key finding
  2. Evidence
  3. Meaning
  4. Implication
  5. Action

Why that order

Numbers presented without the meaning make the audience do the analysis live, and they will do it worse and disagree with each other.

A worked example

Key finding
Customer complaints have risen sharply.
Evidence
Up 18 per cent over three months.
Meaning
Most relate to delivery delays.
Implication
The issue is concentrated in the delivery process.
Action
We should look at the dispatch bottleneck first.

Mostly serves Message, and reaches into Connection.

A framework tells you what shape the answer takes. It cannot tell you whether shape is what you are short of, and for most people it is not. Which one is yours, and whether a framework is the right instrument at all, is what a Discovery Call is for.

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