The Emoji Scorecard

Red, yellow, green. A down arrow. An up arrow. That pretty much sums up the business-as-usual list of ways in which we visually describe metrics, KPIs, targets, etc on our business scorecards.

We have all seen these charts. These scorecards that look like a traffic light convention. The issue with these arrows and these colors is that they do still require an enormous amount of context.

What does yellow mean? If an arrow is up but, the color is red, is that good or bad? So...what if we try something new?

In our personal lives, it is now common and acceptable for us to use all sorts of emojis that span the incredible spectrum of human facial expressions, emotions, etc. A quick emoji response is all we need to know and, in many cases, says a 1,000 words.  It adds the appropriate context to any statement. I don't see why we can't use these in our professional lives now too. Instead of "yellow", we might see a kind of worried but not worried furrowed brown face.

Go head, give it a try, if only for fun. The emoji dashboard is surprisingly informative. Yes, I know this blog post isn't too serious. Therefore, I think I will score it as.......