Vivek Kundra, Federal CIO, wrote in his blog “Evidence-based decisions” that within a few weeks of launching the Federal IT Dashboard the Department of Veteran Affairs announced halting of 45 IT projects worth approximately $200 million which were either behind schedule or over budget. Mr. Kundra writes, “We were able to catch these contracts, in [...]

Storyboarding, a term borrowed from the animation world, involves the design of a “sequence of scenes or events” by drawing out snapshots in time. In the case of animation, the animated movie is the sequence of scenes. In the case of dashboards, the many different ways in which a user can interact with the dashboard [...]

There seems to be a lot of confusion in the market about dashboards and the different vendors. A couple general thoughts on how I see the space. There are three general categories in the dashboard space: • The stack provider – this would encompass companies that sell the entire Business Intelligence (BI) Stack including, in [...]

Pay for Performance is more than just a buzz word in healthcare. With the resolve of Obama Administration to bring cost savings and quality improvement initiatives to healthcare, it is imperative that healthcare organizations see the direct bottom-line impact based on their performance. The President has stressed that healthcare is about quality, not quantity. “Replicating [...]