A well thought out series of enterprise project management / project portfolio dashboard screenshots at http://www.entry.com/reporting.html. From a couple of years ago, so no rockets going off in the visual graphics department, but this flow seems well laid out and easy to use. Sometimes simple text-based links and intuitive drilldowns work best. Those of you on project portfolio or IT management dashboard projects would do well to study the information on these screens. Rare to be able to see in detail this type of financial dashboard for projects.

First, a C-level executive would see comments from his team on his executive dashboard:

 Then, the projects are viewed within their context of the enterprise's project management framework:

The statuses of the projects are easily seen:

The economics/budgeting issues are seen on this dashboard:

And here we see the financial benefits/ROI data:

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 of an enterprise dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy's favorite books.

The folks at http://www.csl-uk.com/dashboard.aspx have a series of enterprise dashboard screenshots which follow a pharmaceutical sales scenario. They use the common map-based drilldown approach. You'll see that you start at the national sales territories level and move down to the account level and then to individual doctors. The dashboard shows projected vs. actual sales activities, doctor information and geographical information.

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 of an enterprise dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy's favorite books.

Sales people and teams love enterprise dashboards for tracking sales performance, pipeline and activities. Here are some sales executive dashboard screenshots from http://www.toplineresults.com/dash.htm. This series of dashboards start with a sales executive's personal dashboard and then shows sales pipeline and sales activities.

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 of an enterprise dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy's favorite books.

Some executive dashboard screenshots from cymfony.com that focus on tracking marketing aspects such as corporate reputation, public relations, consumer opinion and brand management. Data sources include automated analysis of Consumer Generated Media (CGM) – i.e. "blogs". Here we see a screenshot of a brand dashboard that is keeping a watch on the pharmaceutical vertical. It shows clippings from publications that have mentioned the brand. Higher level statistics are presented in the "Buzz Box".

Homework: Study up on the lucrative field of brand marketing and management. This is a field ripe for dashboarding. Start with these books on brand management.

 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 of an enterprise dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy's favorite books.

The concept of heat map graphics works very well for stock market dashboards. See this one in action when the nasdaq is open and go here for the underlying technology.

This is an animated gif:

This is a screenshot of the one on the exchange:

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 of an enterprise dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy’s favorite books.

Thanks to the Dashboard Spy who sent me these screenshots of a bed management dashboard. The photos are from a terrorism drill conducted post 9/11. It's a long series of screenshots but the dashboard is interesting.

This first shot shows the staff reviewing the drill. Note the whiteboard on the wall serving as a real-life, physical dashboard:

This next shot is one of the staff using the bed management dashboard:

Here is their management dashboard:

And here is the geographical view:

Homework: If you are interested in this frighteningly complex (and just plain frightening) subject, please browse these books on bioterrorism preparedness.

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 of an enterprise dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy's favorite books.

While ajax programming technology has really caught on for coding enterprise dashboards, let’s not forget the other big player in terms of rich user interfaces - Adobe’s Flex technology allows visually slick interaction. Rather than trying to describe what it can do for an executive dashboard user, let’s actually try out a demo: 

A very talented flash/flex developer at http://merhl.com/webdevblog/ posted this demo of a Flex dashboard for retail and online stores. It tracks site members by month, products by collection, wishlist and referrals and top stores by state.   See the dashboard screenshot below, but definitely go to the interactive demo so you can try out the various controls. I particularly like the actions within the charting element in the upper right. You can select a chart via a drop down control and also toggle the view from a chart to a table. The line graph has a slider control so that you can move along the time axis. What is also neat is how the various parts can be enlarged, reduced and dragged around.

Homework: For more info on the financial side of retail management, please browse these books on retail financial management.

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 of an enterprise dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy’s favorite books, some of which are listed on this page:

Talk about a need for real time tracking on an executive dashboard! The next generation joint strike fighter, the F-35, will not have a Heads Up Display on the windshield but will have a special helmet-mounted dashboard that will sync to all onboard systems. Read about this real-lilfe, physical dashboard and see more screenshots at jsf.mil. PS. People ask me why I like to post so many physical items when this is a blog about digital dashboards. My background in design leads me to firmly believe that unless digital dashboard designs offer an acceptable "realness" that makes sense to the user, the product will feel unnatural and not be embraced . The best way to ground our digital designs is to study physical equivalents. You can bet that the effort going into this dashboard is for real – we're talking literally a life and death dashboard.

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 of an enterprise dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy's favorite books.

These secret dashboard screenshots are courtesy of a Dashboard Spy deep in a major product company that is very hot on the concept of enterprise dashboards. Excuse the censorship, but you’ll see tracking of YTD product performance: actual vs. budget, market share, daily sales, marketing budget, profit and loss, project expenditures, invoices and expense approvals. The second screenshot shows the drill down into the expense approval and tracking module. Good ideas for layout and content. Enjoy, but let’s keep this between us Dashboard Spies!

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 of an enterprise dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy’s favorite books.