"Senior managers adore their dashboards. Are they really capable of understanding what they indicate? I have my doubts!" And so do many dashboard developers. Had they not, though, invested a huge amount of workdays for creating very sophisticated tools a few years ago? You remember? In those days business intelligence was all about dashboards. Everyone wanted a dashboard to display information about their business. As analytics improved, dashboards got more detailed and the visual display got better, allowing better drill-down into detail. They also started to draw on real-time information. Somewhere along the line, however, quite a lot of people seemed to forget that it isn’t really about the dashboard itself. It’s actually about how you use it.
tisdag 24 september 2019
Why intelligent dashboards do not always lead to intelligent decisions
SAS - Hidden Insights
"Senior managers adore their dashboards. Are they really capable of understanding what they indicate? I have my doubts!" And so do many dashboard developers. Had they not, though, invested a huge amount of workdays for creating very sophisticated tools a few years ago? You remember? In those days business intelligence was all about dashboards. Everyone wanted a dashboard to display information about their business. As analytics improved, dashboards got more detailed and the visual display got better, allowing better drill-down into detail. They also started to draw on real-time information. Somewhere along the line, however, quite a lot of people seemed to forget that it isn’t really about the dashboard itself. It’s actually about how you use it.
"Senior managers adore their dashboards. Are they really capable of understanding what they indicate? I have my doubts!" And so do many dashboard developers. Had they not, though, invested a huge amount of workdays for creating very sophisticated tools a few years ago? You remember? In those days business intelligence was all about dashboards. Everyone wanted a dashboard to display information about their business. As analytics improved, dashboards got more detailed and the visual display got better, allowing better drill-down into detail. They also started to draw on real-time information. Somewhere along the line, however, quite a lot of people seemed to forget that it isn’t really about the dashboard itself. It’s actually about how you use it.