Human Driven Dashboards
posted by Anna Mar, January 17, 2011The most powerful dashboards you will ever build will not be based on a data warehouse — or any data source at all.
Collaborative dashboards are an excellent way to visually communicate human knowledge. Often you can build dashboards today that you are 5-10 years from automating.
Manual Dashboards
Reporting does not need to be a automated process. People in your business have a great deal of knowledge locked up in their heads that is often not effectively communicated.Manual dashboards are an untapped opportunity for most organizations to build powerful decision making tools on the cheap.
Collaborative Dashboards
Building collaborative dashboards is a simple process supported by collaboration tools.
Example — Business Capability Heatmap
Consider a telecom company that is launching 6 new products and needs to track the progress:
The heat map scores the launch-readiness of new products by business capability. It requires input from marketing, sales, operations and IT.
This is a good example of a dashboard that would be expensive to automate but can be built with minimal collaborative effort.
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