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IT Governance Executive Dashboard Video from Microsoft

Microsoft Office has grown to a point where its component toolset is robust enough to create some quite compelling executive dashboards.  Of course, MS Office is not just the collection of word/excel/powerpoint that we typically think of. The reason why we can now do some very sophisticated dashboarding with Office is that it now officially includes some big products like SharePoint, InfoPath, and Business Scorecard Manager. Of course, when you include heavyweight applications like those, you can definitely do some nice work in the enterprise dashboard space.

The best intro to the use of MS Office for dashboard purposes is found in this video on using Microsoft Office to create an IT governance executive dashboard.

I pulled out a couple of slides from the video because I found them interesting:

Here are some background/justification points on why a company needs IT Governance/IT Portfolio Management Processes and Monitoring:

IT Decision Making Framework

Performance Measurement and Accountability

IT Governance Pain Points

Here are some executive dashboard screenshots. They should applications like sharepoint, infopath and business scorecard manager creating parts of cxo dashboards and business unit scorecards.

CXO Dashboard

Business Scorecard Manager

Business Unit scorecard

Transactions Enterprise Dashboard

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