Abstract
The authors convened a focus group of senior IT managers from a number of leading edge organizations to explore the topic of digital dashboards – defined as “electronic interfaces (typically portals) that provide employees with timely, personalized information to enable them to monitor and analyze the performance of the organization”. Whereas earlier executive-based systems were not only “hand-tooled” exclusively for executives, they were also designed for (and based on the anticipation of) executives performing “what-if” analyses. In contrast, today’s digital dashboards appear to be much more focused on providing information (i.e., access) and much less focused on supporting the analysis of the information provided. While this difference appears nuanced, it represents a profound difference in terms of the how the management function is supported by information technology. An analysis of the focus group’s dashboards found three different categories: • performance-based to display the basic mix of financial and non-financial results broken out by current versus previous period, actual versus target,
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