Screenshots of a Balanced Scorecard - Shareholder value index, time to market

Balanced scorecards become more than pretty graphs when they can actually drive change that increases shareholder value. The folks at axsellit give this case study where, in three years, an electronics manufacturer tripled its shareholder value and brought:

• On-time delivery from 89% to >99%
• Outgoing defect level from 130 PPM to <10 PPM
• Manufacturing cycle time from 11 weeks to 3 weeks
• Process defect level from 975 PPM to <10 PPM

The site has a link to a demo that shows a drill down from a balanced scorecard dashboard to a metric and then a cause and effect screen. Here are a couple of the dashboard screenshots. In the first graphs, the green diamond shows the current value and the gray diamond shows last year's KPI number.

Homework: Balanced Scorecards represent the most influential management idea of the last 75 years according to the Harvard Business Review. Key Performance Indicators around the 4 areas of Finance, Customers, Internal Processes and Learning/Innovation/Growth show how the company is balanced. Learn more about this cornerstone of management technique with these books on balanced scorecards.
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 enterprise dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books (or even screenshots of real business dashboards) 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 a digital 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.

Network Security Management Dashboard Screenshot - vulnerability, security assessment

In the past, my go-to place for finding the latest ideas in enterprise dashboards was the network/infrastructure management tool space. Early on, the vendors in this space embraced the idea of graphically-rich dashboards. I suppose it was due to the fact that much of the information was visually-based plus the users were extremely tech-savvy. The rest of the enterprise has caught up with this trend and, as you see from the daily screenshots on this blog, there are dashboards for every corner of the business and of all shapes and sizes. People love the graphic bells and whistles (even when the resulting graphs are hard-to-understand, or even worse, misleading). 

I still like to check into the networking dashboards to see what's going on. Here we have from qualys.com a network vulnerability assessment dashboard. This executive dashboard provides a summary of the current threat analysis. We have several graphs - Vulnerabilities by Severity Level, Status, and Open Tickets. Below that we have tables with lists of the Top 10 Tickets, Top 10 Vulnerabilities and Most Vulnerable Hosts. The red lights show critical items such as exposures in the network, and overdue tickets.

Homework: The enterprise security arena has really matured over the years. Browse the sample pages of Security Metrics Management: How to Measure the Costs and Benefits of Security to see the best KPIs and metrics to put on your enterprise dashboard.

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 enterprise dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books (or even screenshots of real business dashboards) 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 a digital 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.