Do you have these 3 essential things on your KPI graphs in your dashboard? If not, you're misinterpreting your performance measure signals. (more…)

It's an emotional thing, performance reporting and dashboarding. Executives give up the precious little time they have for their families to instead paw through piles of strategic reports often more than an inch thick (or several drilldowns deep). Or they leave the pile of reports on their desk, or give their performance dashboard a quick glance, but then make decisions from their guts inst...

How fast you can get from "We need some measures," to "Wow, what a cool performance report!", the better. (more…)

Are you still measuring performance results annually? And do you wonder why people aren't really getting much value from measuring performance? (more…)

Author of "Show Me the Numbers" and "Information Dashboard Design".

Overview:

When I found Stephen Few's book "Information Dashboard Design" I was really impressed, and wanted to share this gem with you. Stephen speaks of dashboard design in our language - the language of people that use dashboards. And armed with his insights and examples, we can help our ...

The report design working group sat around the table, sifting through the draft strategic performance report to suggest how to make it more useful. Measure by measure, they chatted and suggested and critiqued and debated:

• “this one would look better if it was a bar chart”
• “yeah, I like the three-dimensional bar charts”
• “we should add another line to this ...

Make quantitative information useful for decision making

I have heard this book described as a really good coffee-table book. It's content, while often technical and very much focused on the theory of graphs and diagrams and data and information, very practically demonstrates the impact of how quantitative information is visually presented, and shows many alternatives...

Many decision support tools sport the concept of traffic lighting, the visual flagging of performance measures in terms of whether they are going well, going badly or looking a bit ordinary. And doesn’t that make decision making a whole lot easier! You don’t have to analyse and interpret every single measure to determine if you need to respond to it or not, because the coloured