The Cost of Bad PowerPoint® Presentations (from David Paradi)

"When looking at the impact of poor presentations on an organization, the responses from those who indicated they see 100 or more presentations per year were investigated further. This segment of the group sees a greater percentage of presentations that suffer from the annoying elements than do the other respondents (54.5% suffer compared to the overall 41.5%). It seems reasonable to assume that this segment is more senior in organizations since they would see more presentations than a junior level individual. This gives even greater cause for concern as their time is more valuable to the organization and the cost of wasting that time is even greater."

Calculation for Potential Lost Revenue:
 


 10
40%
10
1
    200
--------
 8,000

50%
        4
--------
16,000

 presentations per day (quite a reasonable number for any organization of 250 or more professionals)
 suffered from annoying elements impacting the ability of the audience to understand the message
 professionals attending each meeting (average salary $60,000 per year)
 hour time wasted for each of the professionals attending
 days per year (conservative number given there are closer to 250 work days in a year)
 
 man hours of unproductive time = 4 man years = $240,000

 
of the professionals attending the presentations result in additional work due to the bad presentation
 hours of time wasted for each of the professionals attending in these follow up activites
 
 man hours of additional fullowup unproductive time = 8 man years =
$480,000


$720,000 Total Unproductive Time (not including benefits, lost revenue or additional productivity impact on the company)
Home | Who Is The Wiz | Who Uses The Wiz | The Wiz Portfolio | PowerPoint® Help | Contact The Wiz

© Copyright 2008 Presentation Wiz, All rights reserved
Sandra Johnson | 7521 Canyon Curve | Chanhassen, MN 55317 | 612.220.7156 | fax 952.474.1408 | sjohnson@presentationwiz.biz

[ Legal Notice | Privacy Statement ]

PowerPoint® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation
Created and Maintained by
WSI