Leaders want to align their organizations around strategic goals and metrics. Knowledge workers need ready access to data about what is happening right now. IT seeks to make information available and useful to the business, and yet observe appropriate security policies. For many organizations, all of these goals are coming together in a single focal point: Dashboards. SAS is known for its advan...

The purpose of this paper is to identify and empirically examine the key features, purposes, uses, and benefits of performance dashboards. We find that only about a quarter of the sales managers surveyed in Finland used a dashboard, which was lower than previously reported. Dashboards were used for four distinct purposes: (i) monitoring, (ii) problem solving, (iii) rationalizing, and (iv) commu...

Business Dashboards have become an important Business Intelligence (BI) tool available to managers and executives to monitor various aspects of organizational functioning including continuous performance monitoring. Similar to the dashboard on a car that shows the current status of the trip and monitors vital statistics of the car, business dashboards can offer realtime information about the or...

AIM The main objective of this descriptive and development research was to introduce a design protocol to develop radiology dashboards. MATERIAL AND METHODS The first step was to determine key performance indicators for radiology department. The second step was to determine required infrastructure for implementation of radiology dashboards. Infrastructure was extracted from both data and tech...

Data-rich dashboards are an effective way to communicate with surgeons and align them with OR goals, but many reporting strategies have not kept pace with changes in the surgery market. Outcomes-based payment models have made traditional surgeon dashboards inadequate. To remain effective, physician dashboards that capture more comprehensive information should be used to track a broader range of...

Public organizations show growing interest in the development of dashboards that aid relief agency managers in crisis preparation. Yet, there is a dearth of research on the development of such dashboards. This paper discusses the experiences gained from a pioneering Living Lab on the development and evaluation of dashboards for assessing crisis preparedness. In order to evaluate and further imp...

Quality Dashboards (QD) is a condition-specific, actionable web-based application for quality reporting and population management that is integrated into the Electronic Health Record (EHR). Using server-based graphic web controls in a .Net environment to construct Quality Dashboards allows customization of the reporting tool without the need to rely on commercial business intelligence tool. Qua...

The authors convened a focus group of senior IT managers from a number of leading edge organizations to explore the topic of digital dashboards – defined as “electronic interfaces (typically portals) that provide employees with timely, personalized information to enable them to monitor and analyze the performance of the organization”. Whereas earlier executive-based systems were not only “hand-...

Dashboards which collect and display real-time streamed data from a variety of rudimentary sensors positioned in the built environment provide an immediate portal for decision-makers to get some sense of their city and environment. These devices are linked to previous renditions of control and management of real time services in cities, particularly transport, in control-room like setting but t...