Enterprise Project Portfolio Dashboard – tracking costs, comments, status, economic benefits

A well thought out series of enterprise project management / project portfolio dashboard screenshots at http://www.entry.com/reporting.html. From a couple of years ago, so no rockets going off in the visual graphics department, but this flow seems well laid out and easy to use. Sometimes simple text-based links and intuitive drilldowns work best. Those of you on project portfolio or IT management dashboard projects would do well to study the information on these screens. Rare to be able to see in detail this type of financial dashboard for projects.

First, a C-level executive would see comments from his team on his executive dashboard:

 

 Then, the projects are viewed within their context of the enterprise's project management framework:

The statuses of the projects are easily seen:

The economics/budgeting issues are seen on this dashboard:

And here we see the financial benefits/ROI data:

So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of business dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot of an enterprise dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy's favorite books.

Screenshot of KPI Dashboard for Pharmaceutical Sales

The folks at http://www.csl-uk.com/dashboard.aspx have a series of enterprise dashboard screenshots which follow a pharmaceutical sales scenario. They use the common map-based drilldown approach. You'll see that you start at the national sales territories level and move down to the account level and then to individual doctors. The dashboard shows projected vs. actual sales activities, doctor information and geographical information.

So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of business dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot of an enterprise dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy's favorite books.

Sales Executive Dashboard – Screenshots of KPI, Sales Results, Activities, Opportunities, Contacts

Sales people and teams love enterprise dashboards for tracking sales performance, pipeline and activities. Here are some sales executive dashboard screenshots from http://www.toplineresults.com/dash.htm. This series of dashboards start with a sales executive's personal dashboard and then shows sales pipeline and sales activities.

 

So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of business dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot of an enterprise dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy's favorite books.

Brand Marketing Enterprise Dashboard Screenshot – Tracking Corporate Reputation, Public Relations, Consumer Opinion

Some executive dashboard screenshots from cymfony.com that focus on tracking marketing aspects such as corporate reputation, public relations, consumer opinion and brand management. Data sources include automated analysis of Consumer Generated Media (CGM) – i.e. "blogs". Here we see a screenshot of a brand dashboard that is keeping a watch on the pharmaceutical vertical. It shows clippings from publications that have mentioned the brand. Higher level statistics are presented in the "Buzz Box".

 

 

Homework: Study up on the lucrative field of brand marketing and management. This is a field ripe for dashboarding. Start with these books on brand management.

 So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of business dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot of an enterprise dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy's favorite books.