How I fixed these data-heavy slides from McKinsey, BCG, and Bain

⬇️ Slides in this video ⬇️

"The Private Equity Market in 2021: The Allure of Growth", Bain 2022.

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In this video Paul takes a critical look at data heavy PowerPoint slides from McKinsey, BCG, and Bain to see what he can do to make them even better.

Designing data heavy slides can be a difficult task because the audience can easily get overloaded with information. That's why it's important to choose the right chart for your message, remove any distractions, and put a focus on the insights.

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[tomthetitan]

this guy is the michael jordan of data visualization

[Zalo]

Hi! This is super useful and I think your videos help both on-the-job consultants and aspiring ones. I would suggest one thing: use more recent presentations as some of the companies you refer to changed their templates and presentation styles quite drastically - I think this would upscale the relevance of your content! Thanks a lot

[arbo]

Imagine how they feel, the poor interns who designed these slides on Friday night at 11 p.m., while they were hitting their 80th weekly hour

[tigertiger]

That first BCG slide tho. AWESOME WORK 👍

[ourchitecture]

For the first example, I wonder if consultants might still argue for the classic bias toward "trending up" chart visuals. While the scatter plot is indeed more technically correct, the emotional bias for at least Western readers like the US might assume a "downward trend" and mistakenly associate it as "negative" or "bad".

The third chart is fantastic, but I wonder here if pro consultants might be dealing with a bias to value complexity that "needs explaining" (by a high value consultant). While I prefer an honest and clear approach as was outlined in your recommendations, I do wonder if some folks out there would still pick the earlier, more complex, version because it might force readers to seek out an explanation from the presenter (the "expert"). Great leaders will see right through this given two options, but might miss it with only the one slide to look at as part of a larger presentation.

Kudos to those of you who can reduce your 10s or even 100s of slides down to crystal clear and, ideally, actionable information! And, kudos to Paul and this channel for advocating for that.

[martu]

It was really good to get introduced to this vision of cleanliness and communication with data!
How were you able to customize the charts so much? Which tool did you use?

[higiniofuentes]

The second case solution is very good indeed!
The first case solution is not as good as we can expect because grouping title can be confusing, you can think is only for the first case. Better to add the two colors with a +. This way no possible confusion.

[aleksandrskaminskis]

Great work there with the Bain slide! Well done and looking forward to new videos from you. Well done!

[escapepeterpan]

Hi Paul, really like how you put glows upon these charts, I totally agree to say that the changes you made makes the slide proves the point better. I have some question if you don't mind, how to decide what type of data visualizations needed to help prove our points. do you have any recommendations on this topic?

[chengwang]

BTW, cannot agree more on putting legends around line chart ends. So much easier to view

[ggasdfdf]

At the final chart there would be an opportunity to put a rectangle in the background with soft color to emphasise that the last couple quarters are important. Or a small rectangle above with a percentage about overall growth in total deal value. Which would it make easier for the reader to deal with the scale on the left hand side since the jumps are in 50B. Thanks for the video!

[costanzadotjpg]

Nice one! What program do you use though? I feel like some of these are limited in Excel

[quocanhnguyen]

Great video! Especially the first chart that you've changed from BCG looks phenomenal.

[EdmanEver]

Hey Paul thanks for the content, may I ask which platforms or tools do you use to edit the charts, thanks in advance.

[НастяХин]

From someone who hates doing decks and struggling to tell stories in PPT, this is very helpful to level up. Challenging though, not going to lie. Thank you, you make this so interesting.

[borstenpinsel]

Color scheme (CI) doesn't mix well with graphs anyhow. Excel for example automatically uses the primary, secondary etc colors. And this what you described with the McKinsey slide.
It doesn't make sense that one option about waste (or any other topic, not related to the company (for example: performance of us vs competitors) is simply the primary color.

I only use the primary color of my company in completion charts (where are we vs the others) and in timeline charts (primary color is this week's revenue and secondary color is the past, for example)

[CalBeMe]

In the original version of the Bain (3rd) slide, the title under "Asia-Pacific" differs from the other two. The additional words "...and growth..." threw me off from the start.

[keegroup]

Thanks Paul. I love what you teach so freely and openly on YouTUbe - it's very helpful. One question: on the mckinsey slide, the heading highlights 'volume' but the graph is about 'percentage'. In other words, Mexico percentages are the highest, but without knowing quantity, there is no way to know volume. To my mind, there is nothing in the slide to confirm that Mexico has the highest volume... it is assumed through percentage and the size of country/population. Thoughts?

[sujiechaow]

Could I suggest reducing the frequency of swapping out the graph while giving comments? It would be better to stay at the visuals so that we can look into it while listening to your explanation. Thank you!