IBCS® Certified Analyst (inhouse)

Compose compelling reports using ISO 24896 notation

What makes reports, presentations, and dashboards faster and better understandable? Learn the difference between reporting designed to support analysis and reporting intended to communicate messages. Both require consistent notation and compelling composition, which can be achieved by applying the IBCS standards. With numerous examples and hands-on exercises, we prepare you for practical application. Optional final online-test and IBCS® Certified Analyst certificate.

Objectives

Learn and apply the International Business Communication Standards (IBCS) that help creators of reports, presentations, and dashboards communicate more effectively and their consumers understand faster and better. With numerous before-and-after examples and hands-on exercises.

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IBCS® Certified Software

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PROGRAM

Introduction: The basics of business communication

  • Reports and dashboards: Analysis or message conveyance?
  • Decision support by Artificial Intelligence
  • Notation, composition and the SUCCESS formula of IBCS

Use a standard notation

  • ISO 24896 notation for business reporting

SIMPLIFY: Avoid clutter

  • Avoid noise and redundancies
  • Exercise: Simplify a table

UNIFY: Apply semantic notation

  • Unify terminology and visualization
  • Exercise: Create a chart in semantic notation

CHECK: Ensure visual integrity

  • Check proper scaling
  • Exercise: Scale an indexed line chart

Apply ISO 24896 notation for business reporting

  • Create Mindmaps for SIMPLIFY, UNIFY and CHECK
  • Group exercise: Create a chart in ISO 24896 notation
  • Why you need a notation manual and what it should include
  • Support from ISO 24896-compliant software and templates

Compose compelling reporting

  • Storytelling based on a consistent notation

SAY: Convey a message

  • Detect, explain, or suggest

STRUCTURE: Organize content

  • Use homogeneous, non-overlapping and exhaustive elements

EXPRESS: Choose proper visualization

  • Use correct chart type

CONDENSE: Increase information density

  • Add data, components, and visuals

Group exercise: Compose a compelling report

  • Mindmaps for SAY, STRUCTURE, EXPRESS, and CONDENSE
  • Case studies in financial and human resources reporting
  • Presentation of the results

Closing discussion and next steps

  • Company-wide improvement in composition and storytelling
  • Data Governance and Artificial Intelligence in reporting
  • Preview of IBCS® Certified Analyst exam

Breaks

With classroom courses there is a lunch break of one hour at 12:30 and two coffee breaks in the morning and in the afternoon.

In the case of online courses, break times can be arranged individually.