Comments on: Dashboards https://effectivedatabase.com/dashboards/ Making data management a revenue generator Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:43:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Wes Trochlil https://effectivedatabase.com/dashboards/#comment-846 Thu, 10 May 2007 13:01:13 +0000 http://effectivedatabase.com/2007/05/08/dashboards/#comment-846 Good thoughts, Dan. Like any technology “solution,” there should exist an actual problem that needs to be addressed. I suspect that often dashboards look cool but most don’t know how or when they should use them.

]]> By: Dan Shenk-Evans https://effectivedatabase.com/dashboards/#comment-845 Wed, 09 May 2007 16:11:48 +0000 http://effectivedatabase.com/2007/05/08/dashboards/#comment-845 When dashboards first came out, they were pushed as an early form of business intelligence, which in some instances they approached that lofty goal. Unfortunately, too often they become just eye candy that is no longer useful because by the time the implementation is really rolling along 6-8 months after go-live, staff (and consultants)have moved on to other focuses or issues, so this is a good reminder for me to re-visit this as part of “user experience”. Dashboards do work great if used well, and most people like the “my home page” favorites capabilities.

Dan

]]> By: Wes Trochlil https://effectivedatabase.com/dashboards/#comment-844 Tue, 08 May 2007 15:57:23 +0000 http://effectivedatabase.com/2007/05/08/dashboards/#comment-844 Hi Holly,

If I had to guess which of my clients had dashboards, you would have been at the top of the list! ;-)

You hit it on the head with “discipline.” I think too many of us (vendors included) see this as a “plug and play” tool, when it really isn’t.

]]> By: Holly https://effectivedatabase.com/dashboards/#comment-843 Tue, 08 May 2007 15:48:42 +0000 http://effectivedatabase.com/2007/05/08/dashboards/#comment-843 Hey Wes – We actually use a dashboard here at NTEN. We track all member data over time, registrations, various revenue streams, site traffic and a couple other small things. It’s fascinating stuff, but requires a lot of discipline to pull off. We had several false starts before we really got ours going.

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