Dashboards

http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/sitemap/

I found this website to be a good resource for corporate dashboards. The site provides many examples of these dashboards as well as a number of posts related to this topic. For example, I clicked on one of the posts titled "1 Place NOT to Have a Dashboard". The author talks about a recent visit to one of the world's top financial firms where they happened to see some dashboards posted in the hallway. These sheets displayed a summary of the performance of various business units. While these dashboards were very useful and available to anyone interested who might walk by, the post comically went on to discuss other locations where dashboards could be found(the restrooms). There were a great deal of these posts found on this site, some more serious than others. Another one I looked at was title "4 Principles for Dashboard Guages". This post was actually a summary of an article on this subject(there was supposed to be a link to the full article but I could not find it). The post states that "The article explores the basic principles of using elements that emulate real analog devices to represent values on digital dashboards. It starts with the acknowledgement that there are both weaknesses and strengths in using such representations." The four principles discussed in the post are: is it a good metaphor, speed of perception, visualisation, and aesthetics. I just thought this was a good site to find a lot of good information on dashboards and scorecards put into less technical more understandable terms.