Use Visuals to Improve Collaboration Effectiveness

I have been inspired recently by reading the book: The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures.  It describes how to present and sell ideas using pictures.  I am struck by how important this is for collaboration, where virtual teams span geographies, time zones, and languages.  The following brief video lays out my case.

For further references and inspiration on the use of graphics, I recommend:

• The video in the blog post Innovation Through Collaboration
• Say It With Charts: The Executive's Guide to Visual Communication, by Gene Zelazny
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward Tufte   

Update on 25 December 2010 by Lokesh Datta

See Related Posts:

• Furthering the Case for Using Graphics
• The 4Ps of Effective Collaboration - Redux
• Does Your Team Collaborate Like It's 1990?
• Innovation Through Collaboration

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[Lokesh Datta]

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By P Le Rudulier

I often realized that a good drawing could get a message across more efficiently in many occasions than a dry though slick poster. We are bombarded all day long with the latter.