In public relations, one of the biggest things PR people are trying to justify is net worth of their campaigns.
And when you get into tight economic periods, fuzzy metrics don’t cut the mustard. We were looking for a way that would prove that if you had to cut the PR budget, the company would feel the pain. We wanted to prove that you can measure the effectiveness of PR campaigns.
Read the complete story at http://www.inc.com/software/articles/200905/tech_talk_nikolich.html
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Loading ...If you are done hating Dashboard Gauges let us move on to a different topic with no speedometers or thermometers (atleast for this Dashboard article).
Earlier we had given you What “Larry Ellison” is monitoring (oops..i just gave the clue). Don’t worry, if you are smart (and lazy) not to click on the above link here is what a CEO of a software company should be monitoring, why? Because the CEO of the largest Enterprise software company is doing it.
The above dashboard is useful only when you have a successful software company. What if you are just in the early stages of building a Successful software company?
Robert at Clearly And Simply has demonstrated how you can build a good Software Development/Project Dashboard.
When it comes to manage software development projects, you have to monitor a lot of different quantitative and qualitative metrics in order to answer the main question:
“Where are we?”
As in any other project you have to take care of the usual suspects in project controlling like the completion rate of tasks, the milestones and quality gates, the budget adherence, etc. In software development projects, however, there are a couple of very important specific additional facets to be monitored closely:
Please visit Clearly and Simply for detailed steps on how to build this dashboard.
(2 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...Recently, on a full moon night, a dashboard gauge appeared in my dream and made a plea which I have tried to put it back using my paint utility. The gauge was certainly sad and this post is to highlight the gauge emotions, nothing personal
Lot of Visualization Experts, (to name some, Stephen Few, Jon Peltier , Charley Kyd ) despise the fancy Dials and Gauges.
Their main argument is
“Gauges waste valuable screen real-estate”
But the alternative they suggest is usually “Black and white” and “bullet graphs” all around the places. Not questioning if it is useful or not, but definitely boring and distasteful!
If you were running a retail store or a coffee shop, you would atleast want an aesthetically pleasant appearance and less of “clutter”, right?
Then why choose to clutter-your-Dashboard ?
IMHO, A dashboard is an application, very similar to any website or the ERP or CRM package that you probably using on a day to day basis. Why would you choose to not make it beautiful, atleast for selling the concept to your upper management?
So Where do Gauges really help?
I stumbled across this article about Visual Merchandising for Business Intelligence.
Visual merchandising, primarily and most notably a retail term, is the art of optimising the presentation of a product or service in order to stimulate sales.
A retailer is looking to create a welcoming and comfortable environment for customers by stimulating consumer senses through a variety of mechanisms at its disposal. The benefits are increased foot-fall, positive word-of-mouth promotion, and a returning customer base which all contribute towards improved sales and profitability over an extended term.
This same principle can be applied to dashboards and reporting to assure the success of a business intelligence (BI) implementation. Dashboards and reports are the shop-window and the sales floor into the BI solution as a whole.
Gauges definitely help sell the concept of dashboards to upper management and they definitely help Dashboard vendors sell their products. So the bottom line is, even though you may have best visual representation alternatives, Gauges are here to stay. There is no point fighting it.
One suggestion to the experts is to keep doing what you do and let the vendors incorporate Gauges and bullet graphs as part of their toolset. The user needs to get educated through your blogs about the best visualization methods and let them choose how they will be more productive and derive better intelligence about their operations.
What is your take on Gauges? Do you love to hate them or Do you love to keep them?
(4 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5) Loading ...The government is seeking your feedback
On Tuesday, the Open Government Initiative published the new Open Government Directive. The Directive is not the first – only the latest – in a long timeline of open government milestones during the course of the last year. Since the President signed the executive memorandum on Transparency and Open [...]
(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...New York City’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) oversees an annual expense budget of $59.5 billion and a capital budget of more than $10.2 billion a year. With staff of approximately 300 employees, OMB prepares and monitors the budgets and programs of over 80 City agencies and covered organizations such as the Transit Authority, [...]
(1 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...Another validation on the usefulness of Dashboards is the recent release of VisionAIR Dashboard module to monitor community oriented policing, increases situational awareness, and provides operational metrics at the “right-time”.
Command staff and supervisors are required to maintain awareness of the “pulse” of their operations. This typically includes many areas such as Communications, Patrol, Jail, Civil, [...]
(1 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...Jaap Vossers has released Sharepoint Develper Dashboard Visualizer
SharePoint 2010 Developer Dashboard Visualizer is a jQuery-based solution that extends the Developer Dashboard by plotting an interactive diagram with data from the Developer Dashboard, giving you an **instant** insight into where the bottlenecks are in your code.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The Transportation Management dashboard groups and presents information about an organization’s logistics operations in terms of the movement of freight. The dashboard provides information on freight costs, arrival performance, carrier billing, and freight cost recovery and variance. With this information, transportation managers can
understand transportation performance as of any date and track trends over time. This [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...A very different and unique take on Dashboards. Take a look at this coca cola dashboard Animated characters representing brands. It is a flash based dashboard/application. I would say it is more of a demonstration application.
The pictures above and to the left are of the first generation dashboard. Click on each image to see a [...]
(3 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...The Shipping Management dashboard shows data for shippable items only, from a shipping and operations perspective.
Because the intent of this dashboard is to show the performance of
your shipping processes, both internal and external orders are included in the Shipping Management reports.
Use the Shipping Management dashboard to monitor your warehouse
operations, including the performance of your shipping [...]
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