What to define before building a management dashboard

Dashboards fail when they are built before anyone agrees what they are for. Work through these eight decisions first.

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The decisions it supportsList the two or three decisions the dashboard should help someone make.The intended userName who will use it and how often.The KPIs and their definitionsWrite one agreed definition for each measure, including how it is calculated.The data sourcesIdentify where each figure comes from and who owns that source.The data quality thresholdAgree what level of accuracy is good enough to publish.The refresh frequencyDecide how current the data must be: daily, weekly or monthly.Access and permissionsDefine who can see which data, including any restricted figures.Ownership after launchName who maintains the dashboard and reviews whether it is still useful.

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