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
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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Well, that’s an excellent heuristic:
“‘One we have a dashboard we can figure out how to use data’ is an indicator they will never look at a dashboard ever.” https://t.co/UACLWc3hDH
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.