Executive dashboards are the door ways to express the deeper insights of the how good the business is running or making profits. Like Dr. Kaushik said “Effective dashboards can be a powerful communication medium and greatly accretive to driving actions” (Kaushik, 2010, p.275). But often the marketing team or high end management team are always unhappy with what they try to perceive form the executive dashboards. This is not because of the lack of data but due to the lack of recognition of the important metrics and their usage for strategically made changes. Dashboards differ in a variety of ways depending on the level of complexity, business line and often with the increasing complexity of the available Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
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It is very important for an executive dashboard to have contextual metrics rather than all of the metrics. Even though the metric seems to be very important for the organization, but without the context using it in executive dashboard is just redundant work. Also having a benchmark will help the middle management team to understand the scenarios of the numbers with respect to the benchmarks. Basically, the website goal for example the average duration spent beyond 2 minutes metric can be a potential goal to be considered for benchmarking in the executive dashboard.
Segmentation: Executive dashboard can become complex if segmentation is avoided. The reason behind this is because segmentation helps the executives to understand the causal effect of the different metrics. In sense, segmentation gives the broader overview of the effect of different metrics so that their action ability could be clearly taken into considerations. For example, in the executive dashboard of e commerce business, the segmentation of customers based on geographical aspect (Country/City) will help the marketing executives to take wise decisions about their future product
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Unimportant metrics must be avoided from the executive dashboard as they cover up the prominent insights. For example, if an ecommerce websites data is been tracked for executive dashboard, including metrics like continent wise visitors, country wise visitors and city wise visitors all the three are related and two of them are subset to other. Including all of them in the executive dashboard would create redundancy, which indeed would be a distraction from the main metrics. Hence while creating an executive dashboard one must consider it as a thoughtful practice to avoid unimportant and redundant
...among multiple companies, due to calendar scheduling. The difference between dashboards and scoreboards were the different styles of key performance indicator the two type of report formatted. And how (IAL) can use wiki in their favor by implementing cloud computing on their website.
Smith & Brown currently use Budgets and review meetings to measure performance and short-term financial targets to drive performance. Budgets use conventional performance measures which are focused on financial aspects where it seeks to explain the financial consequences of actions and decisions through the use of variance analysis, but it can not identify the causes or the source of bad financial performance. However, non-financial information has proven to address this problem, and has been incorporated in the balanced scorecard to help businesses measure its performance more effectively by providing management with information about what could be causing inefficiency in the production cycle and what could be the source of bad performance
The second issue arising is their inability to have a standardize form of collecting and presenting data. One example is that both the Vice President of Marketing and the Director of Advanced Systems, collect and utilize the similar data for marketing purposes. Because both managers are collecting data for the relatively same purpose, there redundancy and a...
Benchmarking should not be considered simply a tool of management, but rather an integral part of the business strategy of a firm. When implementing benchmarking, management must consider the overall issues of performance and process re-engineering.
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Metrics are very important in Operations Management within an organization because it provides functions such as control, reporting, communication, opportunities for improvement and expectations. It is a certifiable measure stated in either quantitative or qualitative terms, types of measurements. In addition, metrics have different types of categories in the organizations. One of which is “Organizational Focus”, which has four different types of levels within the organization or firm. 1.
‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t management it’, [Dan vesset and Brian, M. 2009]. Performance management is concerned with the measurement of results and with studying progress to achieving objectives base on the results. Managing performance can tell you what you’re doing well in, and also reveal areas where you need to make adjustments. Measuring performance tells you how far you’ve gone achieving your ultimate
Vlasic, Bill. "Designing Dashboards with Fewer Distractions." New York Times: B.1. Jul 06 2013. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 7 Nov. 2013
Managers are most frequently found by their subordinates unable to demonstrate a much cooperative stance in terms of telling them what information they need, using the HR metrics information included in existing reports, or even acknowledging receipt of the reports. These perceptions actually comprise the basic concern in organizations and their utilization of metrics and analytics as most managers view metrics and analytics as a simple regular task in a management policy to compute and report more metrics. There is obvious lack of communication and information regarding the assessment and report of HR metrics and the positive results in better organizational performance. Information systems help managers make different and better decisions which also include...
Now days, companies are searching for new ways of gathering data so that they can get useful data in order to make well informed decisions regarding the market they are operating in. Google analytics is considered one of the best tools offers extensive amount of data to business owners for free. However, the success of business is highly depended on how well they can arrange data and customize their collected data corresponded to their business priorities. Google analytics provides beneficial information for companies regardless of their extent of operation.
The Balanced Scorecard has emerged in recent years as a performance measurement system in various organizations. This paper will discuss the origin and concept of the balanced scorecard and how it was first implemented. We will then review the criticisms on the balanced scorecard methodology as well as analyse the strengths and weaknesses of this performance measurement tool.
Companies have transformed technology from a supporting tool into a strategic weapon.”(Davenport, 2006) In business research, technology has become an essential means that many organizations use in their daily operations. According to the article, Analytics is a major technological tool used. It is described as “the extensive use of data, statistical and quantitative analysis, explanatory and predictive models, and fact-based management to drive decisions and actions."(Davenport, 2006) Data is compiled to enhance business practices. When samples are taken, they are used to examine research and understand how to solve problems or why situations are as they are. Furthermore, in this article, Thomas Davenport discusses analytics from a business standpoint. He refers to organizations that have been successful in their usage of data and statistical analysis. In addition, he also discusses how data and statistics can be vital in the efforts to improve the operations of businesses.
Performance management is a useful and powerful tool that can be used by managers to identify what areas of their organisation they need to improve to increase the organisation’s overall performance. The idea of a balanced scorecard enforces a sensible distribution of resources and effort across all aspect of performance an organisation is, or should be, concerned with.
For Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to be successful, it needs to have the following characteristics:
These benefits are best discovered and maximized if used in conjunction with KPIs. A KPI is a key performance indicator and they allow a company to measure and manage ...