Gilligan on Data by Tim Wilson

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately working on dashboards — different dashboards for different purposes for different clients, with a heavy emphasis on making dashboards that can be efficiently updated. I’m finding that I keep coming back to two key principles:

A dashboard, by definition, fits on a single page — this is straight [...]

On Monday, we covered the first chapter of this bedtime tale of dashboard creation: a cutesy approach that made the dashboard into a straight-up reflection of our sales funnel. Last night, we followed that up with the next performance management tracking beast — a scorecard that had lots (too much) detail and too much equality [...]

Yesterday, I described my first shot at developing a weekly corporate dashboard for my current company. It was based on the concept of the sales funnel and, while a lot of good came out of the exercise…it was of no use as a corporate performance management tool.
Tonight’s bedtime story will be chapter 2, where the [...]

One of my responsibilities when I joined my current company was to institute some level of corporate performance management through the use of KPIs and a scorecard or dashboard. It’s a small company, and it was a fun task. In the end, it took me over a year to get to something that really seems [...]

Avinash Kaushik has a great post today titled The “Action Dashboard” (An Alternative to Crappy Dashboards. As usual, Avinash is spot-on with his observations about how to make data truly useful. He provides a pretty interesting 4-quadrant dashboard framework (as a transitional step to an even more powerful dashboard). I’ve gotten red in the face [...]