Business Performance Management - Commentary in less than 140 Characters?

Management reporting can be figures, graphics and gauges. But to bring these figures into perspective, commentary helps. Why? Where? How? to go with the When? and What? of the figures.

It helps to keep the commentary short and succinct for busy readers. One great technique is to write "tweets" no longer than 140 characters.


The paragraph above is exactly 140 characters. Not on Twitter itself obviously, but 140C is a good length for a cell in Excel, a line on a dashboard, or a line in some other form of report. This doesn't have to be an absolute limit as with Twitter, but it's a useful target.

Expressing an idea in 140C or less is a skill to cultivate. Practice makes perfect!

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