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Dash Board - I have been working on

Dashboards.


Definition: http://www.dashboardinsight.com/articles/digital-dashboards/fundamentals/next-generation-dashboards.aspx

Definition :
Many executives and business users use dashboards to understand how their business is performing. But in some organizations, dashboards are underutilized or underappreciated. It is a perpetual challenge for dashboard designers to present up-to-date information in a clear, concise manner that encourages interaction and meaningful results.
In this guide, learn advanced strategies for creating actionable, interactive and user-friendly dashboards that will help your organization track key performance indicators (KPIs). Learn how to get started with dashboards, find out what a dashboard is and what it is not. Discover how to gather input from business users about what they need in their dashboards and how to create different dashboards to meet the needs of various departments. Hear from experts Rick Sherman and Mark Whitehorn on dashboard design and learn new trends to help optimize today's dashboards. Get tips, screenshots and examples from BITadvisors, Inc. a Hingham, Mass.-based consultancy that specializes in designing effective dashboards and helping o

Lets not mix Score cards with Dashboards.
To know Dashboard lets read some thing about Scorecards.
A couple of Dashboard Spy readers and I were going back and forth about some of the various terms used to describe these dashboardy things that we do. There are plenty of terms used interchangeably: Dashboard Reports, Executive Dashboards, Scorecards, Balanced Scorecards, Enterprise Dashboards, Digital Dashboards, Business Cockpits, Dashboard Widgets, Desktop Dashboards, Information Dashboard, Performance Dashboard, KPI Summary, etc.



Whatever you call these things, the common thread is that they are all visually-based presentations
of business metrics used to inform management decisions.
The question is at what point do the differences matter enough that we need to differentiate the language (and the dashboards themselves). The case we argued about specifically had to do with the difference between a Dashboard and a Scorecard.
Here are some references that expound upon the Dashboard vs. Scorecard definition issue:
Scorecards and Dashboards - What’s the Difference? (An article by Serence Inc.):
Scorecards & Dashboards translate strategy into accountability and measure progress. Maybe these systems will be referred to as scoreboards?
Historically, software scorecards were a direct result and visual representation of the theoretical balanced scorecard approach to business strategy developed at Harvard Business School. Software scorecards are also distinguished by the regimented top down organizational planning process defined by the theory that underlies the scorecard interface. This process aims to identify the few key performance metrics that best indicate an organization’s progress towards stated strategic goals, and then cascades down through the organization to all supporting and contributing metrics, groups, and individuals. Software scorecards emphasize individual accountability for contributing to and achieving strategic goals.
In contrast, software dashboards evolved as the information systems equivalent of the automotive dashboard that displayed real-time changes to tactical information often displayed as charts, graphs, and gauges. Software dashboards also offered the ability to drill through top-level information into supporting data. As they evolved, software dashboards became increasingly common as the user interface for individual applications such as ERP systems and Web analytics packages.
What Do You Need to See - Dashboards vs. Scorecards (Article by Data Management Group):
The question as to the difference between dashboards and scorecards comes up constantly. This is due to many companies now using the terms interchangeably. Using the rule of thumb that for every person who asks a question there are at least ten more that also want an answer, a quick discussion here might be in line. Some comments will also be discussed surrounding what the role of each is, suggestions for each type of system, and which might be more relevant to your business (or business unit).
The names ‘dashboard’ and ‘scorecard’ are well chosen with respect to their real-world usage. A scorecard being part of a broader corporate methodology or management discipline and is a report card of how a given person, business unit or entity performed with respect to certain goals over a given time period. A dashboard being a set of indicators about the state of a process, piece of equipment, or business metric such as cash on hand or YTD sales at a specific point in time.
Here is a screenshot of the Data Management post with more elaboration of what makes a dashboard versus a scorecard:

Let’s go beyond the semantics and now look briefly at the Balanced Scorecard methodology.
Click on the more link to see the rest of this post if you are on the front page of the Dashboards By Example blog:
In a past post on this blog, What is the Difference between Balanced Scorecards and Enterprise Dashboards?, we examined some key differences.

A Balanced Scorecard has strict elements:
Components of a True Balanced Scorecard: While both Balanced Scorecards and Dashboards display performance information, a Balanced Scorecard is a more prescriptive format; a true Balanced Scorecard should always include these components: Perspectives (groupings of high-level strategic areas), Objectives (verb-noun phrases pulled from a strategic plan), Measures (also called Metrics or Key Performance Indicators/KPIs), and Stoplight Indicators (red, yellow, or green symbols that provide an at-a-glance view of a Measure’s performance). These specific components help ensure that a Balanced Scorecard is inherently tied to the organization’s critical strategic needs.
For a comprehensive look at the history of the first balanced scorecard, take a look at that Dashboard Spy link.
Other reads on the Dashboard or Scorecard issue:Dashboard vs. Scorecard by the Manage by Walking Around blog. Tags: Dashboard vs. Scorecard, Balanced Scorecards, BI Dashboards versus Scorecards
Related Books: Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step: Maximizing Performance and Maintaining Results








Here is video that tells all about dashboard and tell what types of dashboard its going to help us understand what is type of dashboard we want to build and what end user require and what technology we can use to pull out.

GOOD video to see : http://searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com/video/How-to-create-effective-dashboards-and-scorecards

http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/ this link is good to know all about the dashboards. Various.

Big companies dashboards :
Dell : http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/2008/08/21/dell-ideastorm-dashboard/
Oracle : http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/2009/12/11/dashboard-data-table-navigation/


Health and safety : can go this way :
http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/2006/04/28/emergency-management-operations-dashboard-screenshot-kpis-for-system-failures-resources-response-efforts/

I liked it : these are too good.
http://www.microstrategy.com/dashboards/
http://www.microstrategy.com/DashboardGallery/Dashboards/customers/bmo/
http://www.microstrategy.com/DashboardGallery/Dashboards/CustomerSupportDashboard.asp
…. More be to added

















its good example to see reporting can be brought to, and what all we can have in reporting.

http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/2008/05/09/management-transparency-through-dashboards/

Why we like specific design.

Why we have likings???

Or

Why we like certain shapes (web designs)

Answers from my professional life:

Why we like certain shapes, being designer , its most tricky question to answer, well if try to look for an answer from my professional life its very simple “ it’s not what I like, it’s what my clients like,”, but Clients are also humans, so what can be possibly be the reason for their liking (a specific design). The feedback provided by my clients well says it all. But Is there room for us, to formulate a liking of a person or group, if we succeed in doing so well ,I can provide him a better option, and establish a good understanding between me and my clients, hence narrowing chances of getting my designs rejected.

Turning pages of history to find some answers
Let’s move our feet’s backward and try to answer one basic question why we like something. Well as for many its matter of what pleases us, when I say pleasing, now can it can go both ways. For example I don’t smoke and a thought pleases me that I am not counted in smoker and have a good health. On the other hand there are people who smoke and its act that pleases them and a fictitious feeling of a matured male. But when we speak about designs does it hold true there too.
Let’s keep moving, further back to prehistoric time when man just stared to get hold on object and started to portray his or her feeling on caves. Now what he painted or tried to carve out was his own personal surrounding and his emotions. But as man moved forward in search for a better life he kept on redefining word comfort in every aspect of his living. So does that means that now rounded rectangles are more comfort for human that sharp edged one? I will answer this question little latter. But for now let’s continue with a fact that it’s need of a comfort living that pushes to excel in their profession. This whole act led just increase available options. There are people who are more close to frame liking (context to designs). I also draws one conclusion that best art find best price and So does it means we have good designs will be possessed by rich and famous.

Likings and possession.

The a good old story says, whenever a good thought converted to a good presentation(could be painting, sculpture, design….etc), for example a good picture receives a good price and it move to a good wealthy people becoming there assets. Provided creator is willing to sell. In today’s world its figured as demand chain supply.

A short survey to know people around me.

To understand better I had a survey, only volunteer I could manage was my colleges they had no clue. What I was planning, even one shouted at me saying you don’t have any works this is crazy and childish. I kept looking for answers. I went asked them to draw a figure they liked. Some took time thinking and figuring out what they liked and was it feasible to sketch and some even went into a thought how there sketch might be judged what will be good to sketch. But now one drew computer, mouse, key board which was strange they spent more than 10 hrs with it. So does it means liking it’s not a fact what we have and living with, how much we enjoy having one thing.
Well there were few who kept wondering what to draw. Some were quick, but most of the figures were form geometry only. This shows my colleagues were very with academics unlike me, who might have drawn any silly figure, which had no meaning and latter explaining what it looks like. Now if I asked was same question to a kid that is school going, in a fraction of second he drew rectangle and some circles. Even smaller kids drew. Non geometrical shapes that’s surrounded them but they did it quick. Without asking any question.

Time to summaries.
Having an option on menu.

Liking is primarily based on a fact that we live out changes, how much we relish what we have. At times when we don’t really enjoy things, well so start to look for (change)options, I won’t be looking for change unless I know how to live a creative life out of it. But as the world shrunk it did our abilities, as we started excelling in specific domains. So if we need clothes well I have fashion designer who are master of dressing. They have all your answers, what you should and should not wear, when and why. They are the one, who are creative and provides all us with many options. as they have better understanding of the field the people. So does it makes sense at moment you have an options, it means you start liking one of them.

I have one more instance where I see you thirsty and I keep, bear and soft drink, milk and water. What you go for, it’s you to decide, but does it say something too you, having things on menu it’s not liking. You experimenting and experience a change. Most of the time it’s our past good experience that we want to live again and with more good added to it. When you experiment when you have a good time and you stand at safer end. And if you are experimenting a change well you are paying some good amount, the word amount brings affordability. So how feasible a change is? Is a big question for now.

Answering the core question:

So does that answer my basic question why I like rounded rectangles to one with sharp edges answer is straight we had these to shapes before also, but at that time it was not feasible to have these shapes at our websites but its modern cutting edge technology that’s passing its new parameter and making new dimensions. There are people who are coming through breakthrough every strike of clock. They make things happen but at a big cost. So their technology users will have concerns for them affordability, feasibility and compatibility, with various technologies that are integrated in web. But it’s in
What I have seen and known over the time, “our liking of certain shape (context to shapes in web design) is based not based on a question what we have but for now, what we can have from available options.”

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