Archive for October, 2011

Driving Under the Influence…of Your Data!

For a long time now businesses have been grading themselves using KPIs and metrics. This is all fine and well, but what good is a grade if it’s not effecting change within the organization? We spend countless hours and thousands of dollars identifying targets and goals for our organization as a means for targeting organizational [...]

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Holistic View of the Organization

Dashboards are a great way to keep track of important metrics and are a useful tool to help executive teams see where the organization is heading. The executives can maneuver the plans based on the latest trends on the dashboards. The key performance indicators (KPIs) tracked on the dashboards support decision-making and operations. However, it [...]

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Dashboard Design For Mobile Devices

When I am asked to develop a proof-of-concept for a client, one of the questions I always ask is, “Do you plan on displaying these dashboards on a mobile device?” If the answer is in the affirmative, I will construct my dashboard with a few things in mind. First, there are several features that are [...]

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Dashboards: Public or Private?

Dashboards can provide wonderful insight into performance at an organization. Dashboards help manage goals, measure performance, and monitor key areas of operation. But the question remains, should your next dashboard be made public or limited to internal use only? Once upon a time, companies kept their data private, fearing that doing anything else meant giving [...]

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