International Business Communication Standards

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The International Business Communication Standards ( IBCS ) are practical suggestions for the design of business communication that are offered for free use under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA). As a rule, the IBCS are used to correctly design diagrams and tables with regard to their content conception, their visual perceptibility and their semantic notation.

conditions

Business communication is sufficient for IBCS if it meets the rules of the three pillars of IBCS:

  1. Conceptual rules help to convey content clearly by providing a suitable storyline. These rules go back to the work of authors such as Barbara Minto . They are widely recognized on the basis of scientific, experimental or practical experience.
    At the IBCS, they are divided into the SAY and STRUCTURE subject areas from the SUCCESS concept .
  2. Perceptual rules help to convey content clearly by ensuring a suitable visual design. These rules go back to the work of authors such as William Playfair , Willard Cope Brinton , Gene Zelazny , Edward Tufte and Stephen Few . These rules are also widely recognized on the basis of scientific, experimental or practical experience.
    At IBCS they are divided into the subject areas EXPRESS, CHECK, CONDENSE and SIMPLIFY from the SUCCESS concept.
  3. Semantic rules help to convey content clearly by ensuring a uniform notation (IBCS notation). These rules go back to the work of Rolf Hichert and other contributors to the IBCS Association. Since semantic rules are pure conventions, they must first be generally recognized in order to become a standard.
    At IBCS this is the UNIFY topic of the SUCCESS concept.

IBCS notation

IBCS notation is the name for the semantic rules of IBCS. IBCS notation regulates the standardization of terminology (e.g. terms, abbreviations and number formats), descriptive texts (e.g. messages, titles, legends and labels), dimensions (e.g. key figures , scenarios and time periods), analyzes (e.g. E.g. deviation analyzes and time series analyzes ) and indicators (e.g. symbols for highlighting or scaling).

IBCS Association

The IBCS Association is committed to the ongoing review and further development of the International Business Communication Standards. As a non-profit organization, it publishes the standards for free use and ensures detailed advice and discussion in advance of the publication of new versions. This includes the global effort to express public opinion. The IBC standards, version 1, were unanimously adopted by the active members at the general assembly on June 18, 2015 in Amsterdam . The further development of the standards was discussed at the annual conference on June 3, 2016 in Warsaw . However, no extensions have yet been adopted. At the general assembly on June 1, 2017 in Barcelona , version 1.1 was adopted by the active members. Over 80 professionals from 12 countries took part in the annual conference. The 2018 annual conference took place in London on June 8th. As a key speaker, Klaus Kornwachs gave a lecture on the subject of "From Roman speakers to IBCS pragmatics". The 2019 annual conference took place in Vienna on June 28th. As a key speaker, Yuri Engelhardt spoke on the subject of "The language of graphics and visual notations".

literature

  • William Playfair: The Commercial and Political Atlas. 1786.
  • Willard Cope Brinton: Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts. 1914.
  • Gene Zelazny: How numbers become pictures. Gabler, 2002.
  • Edward Tufte: The Visual Design of Quantitative Information. 2nd Edition. 2011.
  • Stephen Few: Show Me the Numbers. 2nd Edition. 2012.
  • B. Shneiderman: The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages. Pp. 336-343, Washington
  • Hichert, Faisst et al: International Business Communication Standards. IBCS version 1.1, 2017.
  • Hichert, Rolf and Faisst, Jürgen: Filled, framed, hatched - How visual uniformity improves communication with reports, presentations and dashboards. Publisher Franz Vahlen GmbH, 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Minto: The principle of the pyramid. Pearson Studies, 2005.
  2. ↑ SUCCESS concept
  3. ^ Willard Cope Brinton: Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts. 1914.
  4. ^ Gene Zelazny: How numbers become pictures. Gabler, 2002.
  5. ↑ Stephen Few: Show Me the Numbers. 2nd Edition. 2012.
  6. ↑ R. Hichert: Language of Controllers, Interview. In: Controller Magazin. September / October 2014.
  7. ^ IBCS Association
  8. ↑ Engelhardt, Yuri; Richards, Clive. / A Framework for Analyzing and Designing Diagrams and Graphics. Diagrams 2018: Diagramatic Representation and Inference: International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams. editor