How to Create a Beneficial Dashboard Culture in Your Company
Let’s compare the data you gather every day in your company to a smartphone. What makes a smartphone awesome is its connection to the Internet. Without it you wouldn’t be able to use it to find information, check the news, choose the shortest route, write e-mails or use applications – you wouldn’t be able to plan your day or even decide on what to do next. To make the best of your data you must put it in context and connect it to other data. Otherwise, it’s like a smartphone without an Internet connection – you can still use it but it won’t give you all the benefits and wouldn’t really make sense. When you fail to communicate data from different sources across the organization and you don’t convey the data in a contextualized and meaningful way, it becomes worthless. To squeeze the value out of data, you must communicate it and in order to communicate it, you must visualize it. In other words, you need corporate dashboards. Once you realize the importance of dashboards they will become the focus of your corporate culture.
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