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If you are a leader in an organisation that has already decided to use Tableau to make better decisions then this blog is aimed at helping you overcome the challenges that you face, as well as helping you get the most from your investment in people, technology and processes.
Be the Dashboard Detective
They tell you ‘what’. It’s your job to find out ‘why’. The Brief Isn’t the whole Truth and Nothing But...
Read MoreThe Healthy Dashboard Principle
Why your dashboard’s real job begins after it delivers its first wins. You delivered. It worked. Now what? You scoped...
Read MoreCompounding Dashboards: Quietly Growing Your Return on Insights
When people talk about dashboard success, it’s almost always about the “big reveal.” The impressive visuals. The sleek interactions. The...
Read MoreThe Dashboard Compass
If your dashboard doesn’t know where it’s going, why should your users follow it? I’ve made this mistake too often:...
Read MoreHow One Simple Question Turns Dashboard Users Into Action-Takers
Most dashboards get opened. Very few change what people do. And if your dashboard isn’t changing decisions, it’s just an...
Read MoreThe Self-Steering Dashboard: The Principle of Influence in Absentia
Imagine this. Your dashboard gets opened in a meeting. You’re not there. But it is. And it has to speak...
Read MoreThe Deli Dashboard Principle
Don’t be a sausage……machine. Most dashboards are sausage machines. Yours doesn’t have to be. Take every stakeholder request. Mince it...
Read MoreWhat They Really Really Want
How to Gather Dashboard Requirements Without Triggering a Turf War Let’s Talk About the Real Killer of Good Dashboards: It’s...
Read MoreThe Feedback Multiplier
Why teaching users is the shortcut to better dashboards Most people treat “shipping the dashboard” like crossing the finish line....
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