Hospital Financial Management Dashboard
August 27, 2008
Keane Practice Management Dashboards are part of their H.I.S. (Hospital Information Systems) offerings and are designed to allow MSOs (Management Services Organizations), PHOs (Physician Hospital Organizations), IDNs (Integrated Delivery Networks), large... Read more...
Restaurant Performance Dashboard
August 26, 2008
BI for Breakfast? Here’s a look at how a restaurant might monitor their business via a performance dashboard. Thanks goes to Robert Allison who created this restaurant dashboard in SAS/GRAPH leveraging a design by Charley Kyd of ExcelUser dashboards. Here... Read more...
Business Intelligence Architectural Stack
August 26, 2008
Topic: The BI Stack. Here is an excellent depiction of the business intelligence architectural stack as envisioned by the analysts at Forrester. Here at the Dashboard Spy’s Dashboards by Example, we have been focusing on Dashboards (of course!)... Read more...
3 Steps for Performance Improvement
August 24, 2008
Performance improvement is both amazingly simple and frustratingly difficult. I say “amazingly simple” because of the effect where simply focusing attention on an area will lead to improvements. And of course, in terms of “frustratingly... Read more...
More on the Pie Chart
August 22, 2008
The question of whether pie charts are as good as they would appear to be (judging by their popularity with business users), continues to be examined. The excellent statistical visualization / infographics blog, flowingdata.com, recently discussed alternatives... Read more...
Dell IdeaStorm Dashboard
August 21, 2008
Dell’s IdeaStorm project embraces their customer’s ideas and input in a serious manner. Customers have contributed over 9700 ideas through the program. Dell management is committed to reviewing submissions and identifying trends in customer... Read more...
Excel Tool Tips
August 19, 2008
A Dashboard Spy reader wrote me to ask about adding comments to his Excel worksheets so that his users would be prompted to take certain input actions. He’s building a series of excel dashboards complete with data input screens. I directed him to... Read more...
Rube Goldberg Dashboard
August 18, 2008
Take a look at this business dashboard. Forgive me for saying so, but upon viewing this dashboard, I couldn’t help but think of Rube Goldberg Machines, those convoluted devices that take incredibly complicated paths to perform a simple task. I’ll... Read more...
Dashboard Spy White Paper Collection Launches
August 14, 2008
The Dashboard Spy Collection of Business Intelligence White Papers is now live. You can easily preview and select white papers from multiple vendors across industry categorizations. Case studies and free business trade magazines are also available. Some... Read more...
Excel Visualization of Olympic Medal Count
August 12, 2008
In keeping with the spirit of the 2008 Summer Olympics, I’ve been posting some data visualizations and dashboards related to the Beijing Games. On Dashboards by Example we saw the Olympics Dashboard done in Adobe Flex by iDashboards and, on The... Read more...
