Quad chart

A quad chart is a form of technical documentation used to briefly describe an invention or other innovation through writing, illustration and/or photographs.[1] Such documents are described as "quad" charts because they are divided into four quadrants laid out on a landscape perspective.[2][3][4] They are typically one-page only; their succinctness facilitates rapid decision-making.[5] Though shorter, quad charts often serve in a similar capacity to white papers and the two documents are often requested alongside one another.

  1. ^ Quad Charts Archived March 30, 2013, at the Wayback Machine at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory official website. British Ministry of Defence. Accessed February 19, 2013.
  2. ^ NASA Technical Memorandum, Issues 4192-4200, pg. 3. Ames Research Center, 1990.
  3. ^ Bob Paladino, Innovative Corporate Performance Management: Five Key Principles to Accelerate Results, pg. 300. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2011. ISBN 9780470627730
  4. ^ James E. Driskell and Jennifer King, "Conducting Applied Experimental Research." Taken from Laboratory Experiments in the Social Sciences, part three, pg. 341. Eds. Murray Webster and Jane Sell. Waltham: Academic Press, 2007. ISBN 9780123694898
  5. ^ Government Accountability Office report to the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Managing for results enhancing agency use of performance information for management decision making[permanent dead link‍], pg. 28. GAO-05-927, September 2005.