Symptoms of needing a Dashboard
- With so many numbers on spreadsheets, it's impossible to
separate
the critical measures from other numbers.
- You have trouble seeing plan versus last year.
- Daily and weekly data comes to you in separate forms. As soon
as you
start reading the monthly report, you want to take a nap.
- The 2 inch paper report on your desk requires
- A staff member to summarize it for you
- A meeting to explain it to you
- Nothing - you wait for the meeting
- Nothing - you know what is going on
- You are constantly on the phone or in meetings explaining
how your business
is doing
- Over 50% of your meeting time is spent talking about what
has already
happened
- You don't know what key indicators are driving your business
- Historical trending is absent in your reporting
- Your performance reporting is done monthly in Excel and Powerpoint and
sent out via email or distributed on paper
- Action items that are agreed upon are never followed up and no one
remembers the same deliverable
- The recipients of reports can't open the attachments because they
are too big or they can't
read them on the computer screen
- Current measurement techniques depend on who does the measurement,
and the presentation
changes each month
- Your bulletin board of performance graphic charts is never read because
it is too hard to read
- There is no alignment of key indicators up and down the organization,
or you need to effectively communicate them to many people