Daniel Schmidt on LinkedIn: "Flat metrics dashboards" are profoundly limited. After companies adopt… | 14 comments
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Daniel Schmidt on LinkedIn: "Flat metrics dashboards" are profoundly limited. After companies adopt… | 14 comments
Often dashboards are 28-tab Excel files or 34-slide PowerPoint decks. In either format, you track too many metrics and rarely segment and highlight performance, which makes it impossible for others to distill a cogent meaning from what happened and take action.
Avinash Kaushik • Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity
The folks who create dashboards live in a silo. They rarely go out and collect enough tribal knowledge to fully grasp the organizational actions behind the trends and patterns observed in the data being reported.
Avinash Kaushik • Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity
Dashboards are dead: GenAI is the final nail in the coffin
The document discusses the limitations of legacy BI dashboards, the benefits of AI-Powered Analytics, and the shift towards personalized, data-driven insights to drive business decisions effectively.
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Finding the right metric
Ted Merz, who used to be the Global Head of News Product at Bloomberg, has an insightful article about how the company's founder (Mike Bloomberg) uses metrics as a management tool. One metric that is prominently displayed around the office on TV screens is the number of Bloomberg terminals sold year-to-date.
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Ted Merz, who used to be the Global Head of News Product at Bloomberg, has an insightful article about how the company's founder (Mike Bloomberg) uses metrics as a management tool. One metric that is prominently displayed around the office on TV screens is the number of Bloomberg terminals sold year-to-date.
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Good dashboards anticipate followups. A good dashboard says, "This dip, right here, which I know sticks out immediately? It was caused by our pricing change." A bad dashboard leaves the user wondering, "What happened then?" A good dashboard makes rates of change — week-over-week, year-over-year — immediately apparent. A bad dashboard leaves the use... See more
Andrew Bartholemew • Good dashboard, bad dashboard — Andrew Bartholomew
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Often dashboard creators are “outsiders” such as consultants, and they don’t have deep practitioner experience for understanding the entrenched issues within the company, such as the previous three issues. Therefore, they make common mistakes that lead to unactionable dashboards and a loss of credibility.
Avinash Kaushik • Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity
The best teams use dashboards to focus their collective attention on making the most important decisions and taking the most important actions, all at the right time. The underlying belief is that (1) at all times, certain conditions are reducing your project’s probability of success; (2) these conditions are sometimes difficult to detect; and (3)
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