Dashboard

Design a Management Dashboard in 7 Steps

June 14, 2010

Guest post by Mark Vovsi I’d like to walk you through the management dashboard design process my team recently used to build a loyalty rewards program dashboard. It is an iterative approach with prototypes that has 2 benefits. First and most importantly, it will allow the dashboard audience to make sure it answers the right questions. Second, the dashboard team will be able to quickly assess feasibility and translate the business needs into data and ...

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CIO Guide to IT Dashboards

March 30, 2010

You strive to create a transparent IT organization. What is spent on strategic and operational systems should be clearly visible and its value easily measured. Availability of data about spending, productivity, problems and successes should be available to all business leaders in the language they speak. Enter the CIO Dashboard. To address the challenge of increasing awareness of information visualization resources for the CIO and IT leaders, here is the CIO Guide to IT Dashboards. ...

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Does the Federal IT Dashboard Come With a Decoder Ring?

July 8, 2009

Major kudos to the country’s new CIO, Vivek Kundra for setting a vision for open and transparent information and getting right to work. The amount of time between talking about his vision and starting to execute on it with this Federal IT Dashboard has been weeks, not months or years. I thought government was supposed to be slow? Not in this case. Given the speed and the fact that the dashboard is labeled “beta,” I ...

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The Problem With IT Benchmarks

July 1, 2009

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to meet with the enterprise CIO of a Fortune 50 company in the chemicals and industrial products industries (and many others, as I guess is the case for many giant companies). The subject was justifying enterprise-level IT investments. IT investments that span business units seem to be a tricky thing for companies without a CEO who isn’t a strong IT champion and those without an investment culture ...

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10 CIO Dashboard Tips

June 25, 2009

Catch up on the CIO Dashboard Series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 As a wrap-up to the CIO Dashboard series, I’ve summarized some of the key points and added a few new ones to this list of 10 CIO Dashboard tips. Thanks to two of my colleagues at Diamond, Jim Quick and Adrian Vern, who are experts in measuring and communicating IT value through dashboards and provided their ideas. 10 CIO Dashboard Tips 1. ...

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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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