[Sigia-l] Utility of "executive dashboards"

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Sharyn Horowitz:

> I work in a government organization so it's always 5 or more years
> behind the times.

Why is that bad? You missed the dotcom debacle, for example. :-)

> I'm more curious about whether these things actually work or not.

That's really two questions:

    1   Does the "dashboard" widget do what it was designed to do?

That's easy to figure out.

    2   Do the execs need/want a widget that consolidates data/info from
disparate source in one place?

That's much harder to asses, if they haven't had any experience with it.

> Is there any research to demonstrate that organizations who use executive
> dashboards are more successful/effective?

As usual, it depends, on the dashboard, the organization's business culture,
the required immediacy of response time to business changes, the executives,
the nature of the source data, etc.

Can it be useful? Absolutely. (I've designed stuff like that.)

Perhaps you can tell us more about the requirements.

Ziya
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