Most organizations don’t have a shortage of dashboards. They have too many. Over the years, reports accumulate – built for a specific meeting, a departed manager, a project that ended, or a question nobody asks anymore. The BI platform fills up with hundreds of assets, and nobody is quite sure which ones matter.
Meanwhile, the people who need data to make decisions still export to spreadsheets, ask analysts for one-off numbers, or rely on intuition.
A dashboard audit is often the first and most useful step in data visualization consulting. It looks at what exists, what’s used, what’s trusted, and what’s missing – and produces a clear plan for fixing it. [Read more…] about Data Visualization Consulting: How a Dashboard Audit Works and What it Uncovers