PowerPoint: When bullets miss their targets

Boston Globe Editorial:

The issue:

• Ubiquitous Microsoft presentation software now a fixture of high-level military planning efforts. Junior officers spend hours distilling complex issues into PowerPoint. Top commanders skeptical, NYT reports.
• Pentagon = tip of iceberg. Military's use of PowerPoint pales next to corporate America's.

The case for PowerPoint:

• Radically simplifies decision-making.
• Offers ready alternative when elegant prose, hard numbers, clear thinking are in short supply.
• Ideal format for identifying "paradigm shifts,'' "synergies,'' "value-adds.'

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 7, 2010 1:23 AM
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