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How 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...
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The 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...
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The 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...
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What 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...
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The 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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Eight Tableau Truths That Might Sting
Ever built a dashboard, stared at it, and thought: “It’s “Ok…” but it’s not floating my boat…” You’re not alone....
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Your 5 Stops on the Roadmap to Insights
Most dashboard projects start with good intentions – and end with blank stares. Why? Because they aim to look impressive...
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Don’t Lose Your RAG: Using Red, Amber & Green the Right Way
As data professionals, we’ve all heard it: “Don’t use red and green in dashboards – people with colour vision deficiency...
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📢 Now on Salesforce+: Breaking Free From Spreadsheets (The Talk That Had People Nodding Hard)
Let’s face it – there’s a reason dashboards still get exported to Excel. It’s not because users love spreadsheets. It’s because they’re...
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