Organizational Performance Dashboard

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A Organizational Performance Dashboard is an organizational performance management system in the form of a graphical display that presents key performance indicators.



References

2014

  • (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashboard_(business) Retrieved:2014-11-12.
    • Dashboards often provide at-a-glance views of KPIs (key performance indicators) relevant to a particular objective or business process (e.g. sales, marketing, human resources, or production). [1] The term dashboard originates from the automobile dashboard where drivers monitor the major functions at a glance via the instrument cluster. Dashboards give signs about a business letting the user know something is wrong or something is right. The corporate world has tried for years to come up with a solution that would tell them if their business needed maintenance or if the temperature of their business was running above normal. Dashboards typically are limited to show summaries, key trends, comparisons, and exceptions. There are four Key elements to a good dashboard:. [2] #Simple, communicates easily #Minimum distractions...it could cause confusion #Supports organized business with meaning and useful data #Applies human visual perception to visual presentation of information

      In management information systems, a dashboard is

      "An easy to read, often single page, real-time user interface, showing a graphical presentation of the current status (snapshot) and historical trends of an organization’s key performance indicators (KPIs) to enable instantaneous and informed decisions to be made at a glance.[3]

  1. Michael Alexander and John Walkenbach, Excel Dashboards and Reports (Wiley, 2010)
  2. Victoria Hetherington, Dashboard Demystified: What is a Dashboard? (Hetherington, 2009)
  3. Peter McFadden CEO of ExcelDashboardWidgets "What is Dashboard Reporting". Retrieved: 2012-05-10.


  • (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashboard_(business)#Classification Retrieved:2014-11-12.
    • Dashboards can be broken down according to role and are either strategic, analytical, operational, or informational. [1] Strategic dashboards support managers at any level in an organization, and provide the quick overview that decision makers need to monitor the health and opportunities of the business. Dashboards of this type focus on high level measures of performance, and forecasts. Strategic dashboards benefit from static snapshots of data (daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly) that are not constantly changing from one moment to the next. Dashboards for analytical purposes often include more context, comparisons, and history, along with subtler performance evaluators. Analytical dashboards typically support interactions with the data, such as drilling down into the underlying details. Dashboards for monitoring operations are often designed differently from those that support strategic decision making or data analysis and often require monitoring of activities and events that are constantly changing and might require attention and response at a moment's notice.
  1. Steven Few, Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data (O'Reilly, 2006)