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This articles very nicely supports the new concept of my latest course I will be offering in Design Management this fall: Business Modell Visualization.
In my role as a Professor for Design Management I carefully monitor the development of skills design students show when they leave our faculty. Beside usually excellent hands-on skills in graphic, product, and communication design very often the graduates lack appropriate skills to integrate their thinking particularly into business contexts. However one of the most powerful skills design graduates (shal) have is to visualize their thinking and accordingly frame their ideas into powerful charts and illustrations that are easy to comprehend.
This NYTimes article concisely explains what kind of new approaches, tools, and web applications are out there only to be discovered and used.