Before You Rush to Build Your New KPI Dashboard
March 9, 2021 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment
Is your new KPI dashboard one of the 85% that fail? Not if you follow this advice, to properly prepare for building your new KPI performance dashboard.
Principles to Design a PuMP Performance Dashboard
November 24, 2020 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment
Performance dashboards, unlike other dashboards, focus on closing performance gaps in strategic goals. (more…)
3 Steps to Triage BAU Measures For Action
July 14, 2020 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment
Business-as-usual (BAU) measures are not priorities for improvement like strategic performance measures are. But we still need to monitor them in case action is needed. (more…)
How Dashboard Developers Can Help Clients Choose the Right KPIs
November 26, 2019 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment
Even with the right technology, leadership support and project management, KPI dashboards will fail to deliver business value when they don't focus on the right KPIs.
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Performance Reporting and Dashboards
How to Match Your KPI Calculation and Reporting Cadence
May 28, 2019 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment
KPI reporting cadence and calculation cadence need some kind of synchronisation, but just because performance might be published monthly, doesn't mean all your KPIs should be measured monthly.
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Performance Reporting and Dashboards
Why Driving a Car is the Wrong Metaphor for Business Dashboards
April 16, 2019 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment
Business dashboard design is based on the metaphor of driving a car: dials, gauges, traffic lights, rear-view mirrors. But there is a huge fault with this metaphor that is driving business performance in reverse (pardon the pun).
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Performance Reporting and Dashboards
Why KPI Thresholds Are a Really Bad Idea
March 5, 2019 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment
KPI thresholds are not improvement tools; they make people react in a rush to quick fixes and gaming that end up making performance worse. (more…)
How to Build an XmR Chart for Your KPI
March 20, 2018 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment
The most useful way to see true signals of change in your KPI is to use an XmR chart. Here are five easy steps to build an XmR chart for your KPI. (more…)
Don’t Let Your Data Decide What You Measure
August 15, 2017 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment
Measuring performance takes some time and effort. But is that a good reason to rely only on readily-available data? (more…)
The 5 Colour Mistakes in Your Performance Reports
October 4, 2016 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment
Colour is a hugely important part of how we design our performance reports and dashboards, particularly the KPI graphs they contain. But there are 5 big mistakes that can destroy the ease and integrity of interpreting the information they contain. Are you making any of them? Let's find out...
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Performance Reporting and Dashboards
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