Relatórios e powerpoints

A propósito deste powerpoint do ministério da justiça ocorre-me perguntar, será que existe um relatório escrito que suporte o powerpoint? Ou o relatório é o powerpoint?

Aliás, o assunto não é novo, deste blog retiro:

"In the Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, Edward Tufte, citing the 1998 Harvard Business Review article ("Strategic Stories: How 3M is Reviewing Business Planning"), suggests that bulleted lists "can make us stupid" because bullet lists

• (1) are too generic,
• (2) they leave important relationships unspecified, and
• (3) key assumptions are left vague at best.

These briefing slides seem like pretty good examples of the kind of "documents" we should avoid subjecting our audiences to.Bullet outlines dilute thought, says, Tufte. Certainly if we are going to make a document to be left behind as a handout we have to do better than printing out slides of bulleted outlines. Says Tufte:

"Instead of showing a long sequence of tiny information fragments on slides, and instead of dumping those slides onto paper, report writers should have the courtesy to write a real report (which might also be handed out at a meeting) and address audiences as serious people. PP templates are a lazy and ridiculous way to format printed reports." – Edward Tufte, The Conitive Style of PowerPoint