Is PowerPoint Killing Corporate America?
by David W. Richardson, CSP PowerPoint™, computer-generated visual aids, is technology at its very best. It adds an entirely new dimension to presentations. Used properly, it can turn a good presentation into a great presentation, but it can’t turn a mediocre presentation into even a good one. PowerPoint™ is great, but it is so misused and abused that major initiatives in everything from large Fortune 500 companies to even the smallest of businesses are experiencing retardation in the growth of new initiatives. This is not the fault of incompetent people; quite the opposite. Bright, intelligent engineers, accountants, managers, executives, etc. are totally misusing this great technology to their ultimate detriment. Is PowerPoint™ inhibiting the ability of your company to achieve its objectives? If you said, “Gee, I don’t really know; I never thought about it” then it probably is. Take a quick check and see how your company measures up . . . here is how PowerPoint™ is killing corporate
