The Essential Dashboard
“If you don’t know what to do when you look at a dashboard, it’s a pointless dashboard.” These are the 7 aspects to consider when…
Misplaced incentives
“What gets measured gets done, what gets measured and fed back gets done well, what gets rewarded gets repeated.” John E. Jones. And so we…
Wonky Measurements
The story goes that a wood worker was asked to cut ten planks of wood two feet long. He took the first measurement of two…
Deconstructing Dashboards
That executive dashboard tells you nothing In most organisations, the leadership is eager to keep its finger on the pulse. Over the years I have…
Four Big Improvements to Performance Analytics in London (and my favourite new feature that you can’t have)
I’ve been using Performance Analytics since Fuji and back then, I was impressed if somewhat daunted by the functionality. There were some “nice-to-haves” that were missing, but it…
Understand where you’re heading
If your organisation is using technology (that is, if your organisation is operating in the 21st century) then you may be aware that the technology does not engender good…
Outcomes first, data comes second
Is your data strategy driven by your business needs? In 2010 Google CEO chairman Eric Schmidt speaking at a Techonomy conference said, “more information is created in…