Dashboards - we love them, but why do they love us?
Subject: Agenda item for our away day on strategy and scenarios To: CEO and senior exec team We should congratulate ourselves on the progress made, however as your CDO, I am now going to make a case that we measure too much, have too much data and that as a team, we should reflect on the next thing that data can support us in! We have bought into “Data is the new oil,” and whilst we know the analogy breaks down below the veneer, the message is beautifully simple and has empowered the change to a data and digital business. The global pandemic has accelerated our adoption and transformation, and we are in a better place than March 2020. However, sticking with oil, we know that the extraction process has downsides, including carbon release, messy, and difficulty locating economic wells. Amongst data’s most significant downsides are legal liabilities, noise and the wrong data. I can easily hide data’s downsides through dashboards. Our dashboards are based on trickle-down KPI and obj