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Building a dashboard

A dashboard contains information and data showing whether a process is heading towards conformity with, or deviation from, the performance level.

The concept in brief

  1. A dashboard is the set of measures and indicators relating to a given process.

  2. When building a dashboard, a key aim is for it to be easy and quick to interpret not only for the person who builds it but also for the leader and the employees.

  3. A good dashboard makes it possible to formulate actions immediately on the basis of the information it contains.

  4. The key to a working dashboard is to keep it regularly and consistently, so that it always contains up-to-date and realistic data.

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Building a dashboard · Redrawn from page 87 of the Book of Concepts; labels translated.

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