Blog | May 3, 2024
In the words of the legendary advertising guru David Ogilvy, "…most people use PowerPoint like a drunk uses a lamppost – for support rather than for illumination."
PowerPoint is a powerful presentation tool that’s widely used to convey complex ideas and data in an accessible manner. However, when it comes to delivering brand tracking data, it often falls short. Insights teams frequently rely on PowerPoint to share data, but this method can be ineffective for several reasons.
The Limitations of PowerPoint for Delivering Brand Tracking Data
Many PowerPoint decks suffer from information overload. Standard templates and predictable formats risk boring your audience. Too many slides containing an overwhelming number of words and poorly designed or overly complex graphics can lead to that now familiar term ‘Death by PowerPoint’ – a phenomenon born from the misuse of presentation software, resulting in a disengaged audience.
For Insights teams, this is particularly problematic in two major ways. Firstly, when brand tracking insights and key metrics are buried deep within PowerPoint presentations, stakeholders will often struggle to discover the data and information they need quickly. This needle in a haystack situation is why Insights teams often find themselves spending too much time in ‘reactive mode’, responding to numerous ad-hoc data requests. Secondly, this reduces the impact of the insights, as stakeholders struggle to find the specific information they need quickly. The significant time and effort invested by insights teams in research and analysis are wasted due to poor visibility and inefficient dissemination.
Up until recently, there simply hasn’t been a better alternative way to deliver this information. Fortunately, a simpler, more engaging way to present this information is now available.
Breathing new life into insights
In order to engage and inform busy stakeholders, Insights teams need to bring data to life, with well-designed, concise and dynamic content that caters for everyone’s differing needs. This allows decision makers within organisations to access key information quickly, helping them to understand the bigger picture of brand and business performance and get the most up to date data, while avoiding the laborious task of having to trawl through elusive disparate and protracted reports.
To achieve this, a far more specialised, interactive and intuitive business intelligence tool is required—one that can transform data into actionable knowledge with speed and simplicity.
Having Enlyta has saved so much time I can’t believe it. Whereas before stakeholders asked for numbers and facts, now they do it themselves. And when they do come to us, they now ask for the WHY, not the WHAT, which is the job we’re supposed to be doing.
Senior Insight Manager
Complementing, rather than competing with other BI tools, Enlyta Insights is a brand intelligence platform that enables Insights professionals to maximise the reach, influence, and value of their work, helping their business make better strategic decisions and compete more effectively.
Elevate Insights. Enlighten Decisions.
Unlike other brand intelligence platforms, Enlyta goes beyond data visualization with Insight Stories, which lets Insights teams pull data from their dashboards and reports and write it into a short narrative explaining why the insight is so important for the business. Insight stories can be enriched with interactive charts, slideshows, quotes, videos, attachments, links, and ‘quick stats’. This capability allows teams to rapidly adapt core report findings to various audience needs.
By extracting crucial narrative threads from comprehensive reports, Enlyta ensures that key takeaways reach stakeholders who might be overwhelmed by detailed reports. This frees up valuable time for Insights teams to concentrate on what they do best – uncovering insights that create new growth opportunities.
More importantly, Enlyta lets Insights professionals reach new audiences within their organization that otherwise wouldn’t have seen the insight, reaching beyond the stakeholders that commissioned the initial research. This increases the value of Enlyta as more people use it while allowing Insights teams to optimise research expenditure.
So, while traditional presentation tools have their uses and are far from dead and buried, let’s discard with ‘Death by PowerPoint’ and begin breathing new life into your data research by allowing Enlyta to revive data and Insights and drive them throughout your business so that it becomes a trusted and strategically essential business function.
