Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business, 2nd Edition

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Pub. Date: 2010-10-01
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Summary

Tips, techniques, and trends on harnessing dashboard technology to optimize business performanceIn Performance Dashboards, Second Edition, author Wayne Eckerson explains what dashboards are, where they can be used, and why they are important to measuring and managing performance. As Director of Research for The Data Warehousing Institute, a worldwide association of business intelligence professionals, Eckerson interviewed dozens of organizations that have built various types of performance dashboards in different industries and lines of business. Their practical insights explore how you can effectively turbo-charge performancemanagement initiatives with dashboard technology. Includes all-new case studies, industry research, news chapters on "Architecting Performance Dashboards" and "Launching and Managing the Project" and updated information on designing KPIs, designing dashboard displays, integrating dashboards, and types of dashboards. Provides a solid foundation for understanding performance dashboards, business intelligence, and performance management Addresses the next generation of performance dashboards, such as Mashboards and Visual Discovery tools, and including new techniques for designing dashboards and developing key performance indicators Offers guidance on how to incorporate predictive analytics, what-if modeling, collaboration, and advanced visualization techniquesThis updated book, which is 75% rewritten, provides a foundation for understanding performance dashboards, business intelligence, and performance management to optimize performance and accelerate results.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
The Landscape for Performance Dashboards
What Are Performance Dashboards?
The Context for Performance Dashboards
Composition of Performance Dashboards
Summary
The Context for Performance Dashboards
Business Performance Management
Business Intelligence
Summary
Assessing Your Organizational Readiness
Summary
Assessing Your Technical Readiness
Business Intelligence Maturity Model
Five Stages
Maturity Dynamics
Summary
Note
How to Align Business and IT
Pitched Battles
Alignment Tactics
Summary
Performance Dashboards in Action
Types of Performance Dashboards
Overview
Dashboards in Depth
Operational Dashboards
Tactical Dashboards
Strategic Dashboards
Summary
Operational Dashboards in Action
Overview
1-800 CONTACTS
Richmond Police Department
Summary
Tactical Dashboards in Action
Overview
Arizona State University
Rohm and Haas
Summary
Strategic Dashboards in Action
Overview
Cisco: A Metrics-Driven Organization
Kingdom of Bahrain
Summary
Critical Success Factors: Tips from the Trenches
How to Launch, Manage, and Sustain the Project
Sell the Project
Manage the Project
Sustaining the Project
Summary
How to Create Effective Performance Metrics
Understanding Metrics
Characteristics of Effective Performance Metrics
Designing Effective Metrics
Summary
How to Design Effective Dashboard Displays
Overview
Before You Start
Guidelines for Creating Displays
Guidelines for Designing Charts
Summary
Notes
Architecting a Performance Dashboard
Display Architectures
Data Architectures
Types of Architectures
Summary
Ways to Deploy and Integrate Dashboards
Where to Start and Finish?
Centralized Approach
Distributed Approach
Cascading Metrics
Summary
How to Ensure Adoption and Drive Positive Change
Strategies to Ensure Adoption
Optimizing Performance
Summary
Notes
Index
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