Performance Dashboard Design
A structured development process with adequate stakeholder involvement is required to ensure a dashboard's success. This research assignment has provided mandatory dashboard criteria, categorized as dashboard content, analysis, visual effects, platforms, business culture, and maintenance. There is a discussion regarding "real-time" vs. "static". How would you define each, and how would either affect the design outcome of your dashboard?
6. Research Findings and Discussion
6.6 Dashboard benefits
Participants were unanimous that there are benefits to using dashboards in business, and that they are undoubtedly a business enablement tool that is required to achieve strategic goals. Five of the eight participants could quantify the benefits in production volumes, cost and loss reduction, and adherence to plan.
"Last year we had record production in history, and that type of performance does not happen without tools such as dashboards". (Participant 5)