How important is visual information in your business?

How important is visual information in your business? What do you think of as visual anyway – a chart on Excel or some other reporting system?The most recent funding round for Pinterest boosted its valuation to around $3.8bn, which sounds like a lot of money for something that just looks like a visual scrapbook on the web. When Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook bought Instagram in 2012 for $1bn many commentators thought that it was outrageous – Facebook had overpaid for a phone based photo-sharing service that didn’t even have a website. Facebook eclipsed that deal recently when they