Cook Your Reports and Dashboards as a Chef and Cure Business Problems as a Doctor

👨‍⚕️ Healthcare professional (doctor): “I diagnose illnesses and choose treatments based on statistically verified protocols. A client chooses a hospital but does not tell the surgeon how to perform an operation.”

👨‍🍳 Cooking professional (chef): “I carefully select high-quality raw ingredients and prepare meals following the best recipes I know and have practiced. A client chooses a restaurant and a meal but not the recipe.”

🧑‍💼 Data visualization professional: “I do what a client wants. The client says: ‘Add a pie chart here, add more colors to the chart, add a large logo on top of the rainbow-colored pie chart.'”

Well, the reality is a bit more complicated. And, surely, in data visualization, the audience is important, and communication is crucial. Similarly, a patient and communication with the patient are important, and a restaurant guest and communication with the restaurant guest are important.

But it’s important to understand what exactly a professional should be discussing with a client.

🎯 Be a true professional. Communicate with clients to understand their real needs (not a pie, bar, or line chart, but a solution to a business problem). Ask the correct questions—questions that help diagnose and cure the issue and questions that help suggest the best solution.

🎯 Then follow verified protocols, recipes, and best practices, and communicate the efficiency of this approach back to the client. Propose and implement the best solutions that will ensure the health of their business.

🎯 Cook your reports and dashboards as a chef and cure business problems as a doctor.