Dashboard

CIO Dashboards can wind up helping or hindering the management of an IT organization. On the whole however, a CIO Dashboard project is well worth doing if you do it right. That’s basically the summary of a great article from Information Week titled Hunting the Elusive CIO Dashboard.

The article stresses the importance of selecting the right metrics, managing well upon receiving the right information, and taking the time to properly prepare the data necessary for the project.

Take a look at these 8 Steps Towards a CIO Dashboard:

Here are the steps for those that can’t see the graphic:

1. Define the key performance indicators (KPIs) that need to be measured in your dashboard.
2. Map KPIs to specific data requirements. Determine if the data exists in systems or needs to be collected.
3. If data-collection gaps exist, explore improvements to fill holes. Develop a plan and timeline to implement those systems.
4. Investigate business service management, project and portfolio management, and BI tools based on your KPI requirements. Pay attention to how tools integrate with your existing infrastructure.
5. Budget for the initial cost of the CIO dashboard, annual maintenance, and fees to implement the system. Take into account the complexity and cost of changes and updates.
6. Develop an implementation plan that provides dashboard visibility into key systems one at a time.
7. After systems are integrated, focus on correlating data across those systems to provide meaningful visual information and alerting capabilities should a metric violate a threshold.
8. When new components are considered, evaluate how they’ll be integrated into the dashboard.

Lots more CIO Dashboarding hints in the article, so be sure to take a look.

Tags: CIO Dashboard Design

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One Response to “8 Steps Towards a CIO Dashboard”

1. Krish L narasaiah Said on August 3rd, 2008 at 12:18 am quote

   The Eight-Steps Structure of a DashBoard For CIOs is a good Design and shall be a handy Tool for performance monitoring and driving analysis.

   Perhaps Detailed analysis of the the components and typical case studies would be good. We should take this discussion further.

   Go Dashboard Spy Go!

   A fan from Bangalore.

   Interesting &good Topic For sharing !!!

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