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From a simple excel dashboard to a fully integrated enterprise reporting suite, the Business Dashboard is being quickly adopted as the new face of Business Intelligence. It has a rapidly growing role in BI reporting and analysis.

An enterprise dashboard allows at-a-glance visualization of company health and monitoring of key performance indicators. Simple to understand and high in ROI, these executive dashboards are becoming "must-haves" for all enterprises. Easy-to-use by business users and fun-to-implement by the IT department, BI dashboard projects are quickly funded and politically popular.

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Conducting Brainstorming Sessions

All software development projects demand high degrees of collaboration but Business Dashboards in particular span so many domains within an organization that strong group vision is an absolute must. Dashboards are so user-centric that without contribution by members of the various intended audiences during the design phase, the resulting software is an annoyance at best and useless at worst.

How best to manage the chaos that may come during the envisioning phase for a far-flung dashboarding project? I still say that we must start the requirements phase with some wide-open brainstorming sessions.

In this post, we’ll list some resources for conducting brainstorming session. Before getting to the various aides and suggestions, however, keep in mind that not all people brainstorm in the same manner. It’s our responsibilty to recognize this and facilitate what works best for each particular member of the team.

Here’s a favorite picture of mine. It’s a shot of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer doing some brainstorming. Steve is taking his typical charge-ahead approach. His hands are flying and his look intense. Bill is in thinking mode and has his eyes closed.

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Last Modified: Monday, December 8th, 2008 @ 18:14

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