The Three Types Of Dashboards



Strategic

  • Focuses on long term goals and strategies on the highest level of metrics.
  • These dashboards provide information over the longest time frame- from a single financial quarter to years.
  • They typically contain information that is useful for enterprise-wide decision-making. Below is an example of a strategic dashboard which focuses on key performance indicators (KPIs) over a year.


Operational

  • Short-term performance tracking and intermediate goals.
  • Because these dashboards contain information on a time scale of days, weeks, or months, they can provide performance insight almost in real-time. 
  • This allows businesses to track and maintain their immediate operational processes in light of their strategic goals. The operational dashboard below focuses on customer service.


Analytical

  • Consists of datasets and the mathematics used in these sets.
  • Analytic dashboards contain a vast amount of data used by data analysts. 
  • These dashboards contain the details involved in the usage, analysis, and predictions made by data scientists.
  • Certainly the most technical category, analytic dashboards are usually created and maintained by data science teams and rarely shared with upper management as they can be very difficult to understand. The analytic dashboard below focuses on metrics for a company’s financial performance.


Comments

Most Popular