08:30 Check-in and coffee

09:00 Welcome and opening

Executive from Royal Philips

09:15 IBCS® - Where do we stand today?

Rolf Hichert, IBCS Association

09:45 How IBCS® improve the value of CCİ’s management reporting? Recognizing the need to establish a thorough process of standardizing business communication

Ilkay Furmaz, Coca-Cola İçecek, Istanbul

• IBCS standards tailored to our KPIs and business dimensions
• An agile proof-of-concept project resulting in quick wins and top management support
• Equipping Excel users with Zebra BI
• Hands-on training and mentorship
• Future plans: Spreading IBCS® across the enterprise information architecture

10:15 Coffee break

10:45 Implementation of IBCS® at the Otto Group

Ulrich Siegel, Otto Group, Hamburg

• Advantages and benefits
• Implementation procedure
• Live presentation of 5 IBCS compliant reports from condition management
• Challenges and key learnings

11:15 Improving transparency in a public organization of 100.000 employees

Michael Schopf, Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Nürnberg

• Bundesagentur is The Federal Employment Agency with 700 offices nationwide
• The president himself started a three year change project
• The change process to the new IBCS Standards
• Excel solutions in use today, future challenges in the SAP and BI world

11:45 Update on IBCS implementation at Philips: Deployment and continuous improvement

Maurice Verhagen, Royal Philips, Eindhoven

• Project conclusion
• Annual report
• IT solution support

12:00 Elevator pitch of IBCS® Sponsors 2015

What is the USP of every vendor in the market for IBCS compliant software?

12:30 Lunch break

13:30 Sessions 1

A   IBCS charts® in practice - real world examles and dilemmas

Preparation and moderation: Andrej Lapajne, Zebra BI, Ljubljana

• Dilemmas in selecting the most appropriate chart based on the structure of data and intended message
• Time-series analysis: When to use columns, dots/”pins”, lines, areas? Multiple series or small multiples?
• Dilemmas with waterfall charts: multilevel hierarchies and calculations, achieving consistent color codes for “neutral”, “good” and “bad”, notation of scenarios in chart series vs. semantic axis, etc.
• Shape coding details: applying markers, semantic axis and patterns consistently across different chart types and for different KPIs

B   Successful SUCCESS projects - how do we convince top management?

Preparation and moderation: Heinz Steiner, Trivadis, Glattbrugg

• What are necessary pre-requisites for a successful change process?
  These elements must be considered: notation concept, communication, training, quick wins, templates, software tools, …

C   Learn from Designers and Developers when creating business communication products

Preparation and moderation: Jörg Decker, Densio Software, Düsseldorf

• IBCS® Standards have been created to make business communication more understandable. The need to understand information in an easy way is also known in other businesses – it’s the daily business for UX Designers. Let’s take a look what we can learn from them.

15:00 Sessions 2

A   The concept of scaling indicators - a general solution for the comparison of scales?

Preparation and moderation: Rolf Hichert, IBCS Association

B   Table standards - necessary or only nice to have? Discussion of the IBCS table concept version 1.0

Preparation and moderation: Jürgen Faisst, HICHERT+FAISST

• Status quo: Necessity and concept
• Controversial topics
• Conceptual gaps

16:00 Summary of each breakout session

16:40 IBCS® - Where do we want to be next year?

17:00 End of the conference

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