Do this. Use whole words or at least standard abbreviations. Learn the key words or jargon at the place you are consulting. People love this. A client said, "I didn't know you could do that. It's great."

"They they ask for bread and water, answer them with a feast."

and teach them how to use the metrics they didn't ask for. Why bother? You learn and add to your skill set for next / better job. People love it and they ask you to do more work for them.

Thought provoking as always.

I have to agree that Kristen's slide is every effective, we have lots of complex tools yet everything happens in Excel and these are great tips. The feast idea from Tim is great, though I have been in organizations that don't appreciate the feast and after a while it gets really hard.

Keep up the great work, am a avid reader.

I would like to add an example from Pharma field here. While comparing usefulness of two drugs on patients of a particular disease, it is important to analyze for what additional diseases those drugs work. Specially in Asia and Africa where there are many contagious diseases, most of the patients suffer from more than one. From an analysis it is seen that seventy percent of people suffering from Typhoid in Indian Subcontinent is also suffering from one or other form of Pneumonia. So even if drug A performs better for Typhoid, if it performs very poor in Pneumonia the usefulness of that antibiotic is questionable (considering all above mentioned facts).

The analysis is always incomplete if it is not 360 degree. This is one of the most important point he has forwarded. Thank you Jodi.

It is impossible not to admire the great and simple graph by Tim. I am excited to this analysis. I am going to perform this for my site.

Thanks for providing this information, Avinash. Once again an excellent blog entry.

Bhupendra

good posting this week…