The PowerPoint* horror-slides
For a while we have been giving an award for the “horror slides of the month". Due to the suffocating amount of mail received we cancelled this competition. The slides were more or less the same. One can practically put 90 percent of the billions of slides shown throughout the world every month in that collection. Below you find a few specimens from that horror cabinet.
Attention!
The fact, that you laugh about these horror slides, should not lead to the conclusion that it would be enough to fight the excesses and that THEN PowerPoint* would be OK … . No, far from it, It can be proven that EACH slide containing text, a diagram or a schematic illustration has a drastically reduced effect compared to a real human creating something on a flip-chart. This is due to the fact that the effect of an illustration is not generated by the result but by THE ACT OF CREATING the result. It is the latter that provides the effect and not the result itself. That is the reason why PowerPoint* can not work.
While smiling do not forget that we take our cause seriously!
- Value Drivers
Attached you find my absolute horror presentation, that is being presented to us at irregular intervals every now and then. Of course these slides are of a confidential nature. Therefore, I covered some parts of them. At our company, we are particularly proud about certain abbreviations that allow us to put a lot of information on one slide; for example: ECV = Expected commercial Value or VDT = Value Driver Tree. That is great isn't it?? Otherwise, my company is of course first class.
- Strategic and operational command through management information systems based on balanced-Score-Card
If I know, that I am going to be invited to such a presentation I take an extra day off. The preliminary joy may be rated as high as a date with Angelina Jolie. No disappointment will follow.
This is an official slide of regional government of Münster. Normally we do not disclose the names of companies that present slides prepared in that manner. But this PowerPoint presentation is accessible to everyone on the Internet. Do you want to do this to yourself?
- Grouping of the access structure
Unfortunately, the misuse of PowerPoint* is practically a solid part of everyday life at our university. I attached a part of this craziness. For your information: this lecture was held at the lecture hall in front of about 350 students at the beginning of the semester. For the projection of the slides, the lecturer did not use the big projector but only a little table-projector projecting at the wall, so that just the first two rows could read with effort. At the end of the semester, there were a meager 50 students left. The person, who says that this situation may have been connected to PowerPoint* may be silenced forever.
- Central high school graduation exam
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Using this battle of PowerPoint* slides the students of our graduating class are informed about the nationwide high school graduation exam. Small wonder, that Germany has a poor ranking in the PISA.
- Horror slides
A team of 5 people have gathered around me; they are busy all day preparing PowerPoint* slides for acquisitions within the framework of the company's asset management. As we are producing about 700 PowerPoint slides per year, there are a lot passing by my desk, and some of them are fit to compete with your horror cabinet.
