Eye-catching images for business presentations

Make better presentations with professional pictures

Eye-catching images for business presentations

19 original photos from the Agence France Presse (AFP) photo collection and how to use these in a business presentationBy Sieuwert van Otterloo from Slideshots

Make better presentations with professional picturesMake better presentations with professional pictures

Situations and complications

A common pattern for management presentations is situation, complication, resolution. A mature or even shrinking market is a common situation for many European or US companies. A sudden drop is sales would also be a situation.


Complication: being stranded

A complication is a sudden event that forces one to take action. For instance if the company runs out of cash as a result of a sales drop. Or is stranded at second place rather than being first


Uphill struggle

Changing a business can seem to be an uphill struggle. Try to enjoy the view from the top.


Threats

• Some companies have legacy, such as old computer systems that can no longer evolve.

• Other companies are portrayed as dinosaurs themselves, and in need to renew themselves


Blue Sky thinking: try to find new markets

‘Blue sky’ thinking: open minded thinking, not limited to your current position or market. As investors say: you earn the money back in a different way than you lost it.


Internationalization: the consequence of acting in global markets

• Serving international markets is a challenge for many organisations. Despite modern technology such as skype, personal meeting remain important. Luckily many young professionals enjoy travelling internationally

• The picture shows the new boarding hall of Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport


The wisdom of crowds

A large flock of starlings fly over a park at sunset seaking an area to land for the evening, in Algiers 15 January 2006. Millions of birds migrate every year, arriving from Europe and crossing into Africa.

The Internet allows large groups of individuals to interact with each other. These large people can be used for gathering information (crowdsourcing) or even to raise money (crowdfunding)


Motivation and aspiration are needed in a new product development team

‘If you want to build a ship,don’t herd people together to collect woodand don’t assign them tasks and workbut rather, teach them to long for theendless immensity of the sea.”Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Unique selling points

• It is easier to sell products that are perceived as unique. Avoid being a commodity and you can set the price of your product.

• The tortoise pictured here is Lonesome George, the last of his species. He died on June 24 2012 at the age of 100.


Additional revenue

• “Cash is king” for many businesses: profitable companies can go bankrupt if they do not manage their cash flow. The picture shows Swiss Francs.


Cost savings

• Reducing costs is a good way to improve short time profitability.


Customer contact

• “Elephants dance with elephants”: large organizations prefer to do business with larger suppliers since large providers are believed to be more likely to perform at scale


Making new types of alliances

• Many organizations need their partners to do business. • Meeting new partners, especially when they are different from

your own organization, can bring new ideas


Standardization

Standardization of processes is often a first step in an improvement program. You cannot improve a standard process if there is no standard process.


Firing the starting gun

• Visible support from top leadership is important. One way to show support is by having an official launching moment.


Measuring cost per transaction

• User centric metrics have proven useful for many businesses. Examples of such metrics are revenue per transaction or revenue per user per month.


Fuel your own presentations with photos

• This document was created by Slideshots to inspire you to use photos in presentations. This presentation may be sent to other people but cannot be edited.

• The pictures were presented in a more or less random order: It is an example presentation. There is no overall storyline.

• The photos are all selected from the AFP photo collection, and were licensed for use in presentations: you can buy these and many other photos at www.slideshots.com

• Remember to respect the copyright of photographers and protect your company from copyright claims: always use photos from a legitimate source.


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