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Enterprise Dashboard for Project Control
Some Enterprise Dashboards have a look and feel that take the control panel metaphor quite literally and aims to emulate hardware dials and gauges. This oldie but goodie from 2002 certainly falls into that category. It’s the US Department of Defense’s Project Control Dashboard at http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/story/0,10801,69121,00.html. Plenty of dials and gizmos to be sure!
The KPIs offered on this Project Dashboard are geared to measure project progress and are grouped into categories such as Productivity, Completion, Change Management, Quality, Staff and Risk. All basic project management metric categories.
Design aesthetics for enterprise dashboards have certainly changed since 2002. It’s interesting and educational to see what designers envisioned as a business dashboard back then. Of course, it was easy to take the idea of a dashboard literally.
Here’s Malik’s take on what a dashboard in a car provided:
The term dashboardbrings to mind that panel under the windshield of a
vehicle that contains indicator dials, various compartments, and control
instruments. Its beauty lies in its functionality. It brings together all of the
relevant data and functions within easy accessibility to the driver. It allows
us to monitor important, even lifesaving data while performing the vital
day-to-day task of driving. In addition, it provides an ease of use and com-
fort so as to make the multitude of decisions necessary during the driving
task almost automatic, and certainly effortless.
So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of business dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot to share, please leave a comment or send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy’s favorite books.
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