Immediately following a natural disaster, government representatives and Red Cross volunteers arrive on the scene en-masse. They bring not only supplies, shelters and expertise, but also information systems that facilitate disaster recovery. But when they disappear 3-5 days later, communities are left with no long-term systems to aid disaster recovery.
A day in the life of D:
me: What’s for
dinner?
me: um… I don’t know. What’s in the fridge?
me: Eh, I’ll just have cereal… : (
A thoughtfully designed dashboard is an exceptional tool for keeping pulse on business performance, but a poorly designed conglomerate of charts and tables can be a distraction. The article “3 reasons to hate BI dashboards” by Joe McKendrick posted on the business technology news website ZDNet criticizes the current state of corporate dashboards for being poorly organized, not actionable, and not much more useful than they were 20 years ago even with technological advances.