Archive for the ‘Performance Dashboards & Reporting’ Category

#81 Three Questions to Design Your KPI Reports

Unless your performance reports are focused on answering three critical questions, they’re likely to bore you sleep, lead you astray, or confuse the begeesus out of you.

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Podcast Episode #26 – Where the KPI Rubber Hits the Road

IN THIS EPISODE:

Upcoming Events: Interested in a 2012 Performance Measure Blueprint Workshop? Let us know…
Practical Tip: Three questions to design your KPI reports
How-to Resources: How to design useful and usable performance reports…
Your Questions: Chris asks how to present KPIs with minimal effort.
Getting More: Five Steps For a Fast Performance Dashboard, Making Sure Your KPI Graphs Don’t Suck, WOW! What a Cool Performance Report!

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#70 Five Steps For a Fast Performance Dashboard

Many (most?) performance dashboard projects get stalled because people jump the gun and focus too much on the whiz-bangery of the dashboard application and don’t give anywhere near enough thought to the choice of measures and information worth dashboarding.

To get the dashboard project moving again, five simple steps are all you need:

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Podcast Episode #15 – Easy, Bare-Bones Performance Dashboards

IN THIS EPISODE:

Feature: 5 Steps For a Fast Performance Dashboard.
Q&A: Should dashboards be used only for KPIs that can be reported on daily or weekly?
Quick Tip: A review of KPI Dashboard.

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Podcast Episode #3 – Making Sure Your KPI Graphs Don’t Suck

IN THIS EPISODE:

Article: 3 Things You Need On Every KPI Graph.
Q&A: How to get Executives understanding different methods of reporting performance results.
Quick Tip: How to choose the right graph type for your KPI or performance information.

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#58 Three Things You Need On Every KPI Graph

The frighteningly vast majority of performance reports and dashboards are filled with graphs that fail to communicate the real signals our performance measures and KPIs are desperate to show us.
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#20 The Story In Your Performance Data

Your performance data is trying to tell you something. Something deeper and richer and more insightful than just whether or not you’re on track to hit your target. Can you hear it? Probably not, unless you’re already doing these six practices to hear your data’s story.

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#14 WOW! What a Cool Performance Report!

How fast you can get from “We need some measures,” to “Wow, what a cool performance report!”, the better.

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#11 How Often Should You Track Your Measures?

Are you still measuring performance results annually?

And do you wonder why people aren’t really getting much value from measuring performance?

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