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Real-time Dashboards: Not Appropriate for Business
The marketing departments of “business intelligence dashboards” keep emphasizing that their dashboards give managers “real-time” or “up-to-the-minute” information on how their business is doing. They make it sound like a real benefit that all managers and business owners should appreciate. Don’t be fooled. At the lower levels of the organization, where people are responsible for [...]
January 25, 2009
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Time to Consider Excel Dashboard Components?
There is a lot of material written by Excel MVPs on how to create Excel dashboards. One of the most popular sources of information for this is the ebook and templates by Charles Kyd of http://www.exceluser.com/ In this post, I look at the concept of building and using Excel dashboard components. Like complete Excel dashboards, [...]
January 21, 2009
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