CIO Dashboard

Metrics and Measurement

Device, Desktop or Dead Tree?

June 22, 2009

Catch up on the Building a CIO Dashboard Series: Part 1, Part 2 Now that we have a few questions answered – do I really need a dashboard, what questions will it answer and what type of dashboard we need, we can discuss how to deliver it. This post will cover the 3 channels through which a dashboard is presented: Devices – Blackberries, iPhones and other mobile devices Desktops – browser based dashboards and other ...

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The 4 Types of CIO Dashboards

June 15, 2009

Read Part I of the Building a CIO Dashboard Series I think the biggest challenge in building a meaningful CIO dashboard lies in the question of what to measure.  As my partner Jim Quick says it’s either feast or famine when it comes to measuring IT.  You either have so much data you don’t know where to focus or you are paralyzed by the idea of figuring this out. In keeping with the best iterative ...

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5 Characteristics of a CIO Dashboard

June 11, 2009

I figured it was about time for me to tackle the CIO dashboard topic since you’ve been good enough to read along so far and were probably wondering if I would ever get around to it. I think this is a pretty substantial topic, so I plan to use a series of posts to cover it over the next few weeks. Part 1 (this post) explores the rationale for and attributes of a CIO dashboard.  ...

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