Business Dashboards: A Visual Catalog for Design and Deployment
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Business Dashboard books are growing in number. Here’s a first look at a newly available dashboard book titled, Business Dashboards: A Visual Catalog for Design and Deployment
I bring it to your attention because it seems that the authors love dashboard screenshots as much as I do. The description for the book promises lots of dashboard examples:
Focusing on designing the right dashboards for use in an organization, this timely, full color book reveals how to successfully deploy dashboards by building the optimal software architecture and dashboard design. In addition, it describes the value of this popular technology to a business and how it can have a significant impact on performance improvement. A unique collection of more than 120 dashboard images are organized by category. One of the chapters provides a step-by-step description of the key performance indicator (KPIs) design process. One of the appendices contains more than 1,000 examples of KPIs to help design the content of dashboards. The book also describes all the steps in a dashboard implementation and offers related advice.
Want to check out the first chapter? Take a look at Business Dashboards - Chapter One.
A very interesting diagram is reproduced below. It shows the evolution of automobile dashboards versus business dashboards.

Here’s a look at the Table of Contents:
Preface.
Book Summary.
Part 1. Introduction to Dashboards.
Chapter 1. Dashboards Definition.
Chapter 2. Dashboards’ Role in a Business Intelligence Solution.
Chapter 3. Why Dashboards Have Become so Popular.
Chapter 4. Types of Dashboards.
Chapter 5. Designing Metrics and Key Performance Indicators.
Chapter 6. Dashboard Scenario: Use Case.
Chapter 7. Getting Ready for the Implementation.
Part 2. Summary and Readiness Checklist.
Part Two. Creating the Right Business Intelligence Architecture for Dashboards.
Chapter 8. Why a Good Architecture Is Important.
Chapter 9. Data Warehouse Techniques.
Chapter 10. Data Replication and Delivery.
Chapter 11. Query Language and Interactivity.
Chapter 12. Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Dashboard Paradigm.
Chapter 13. Mobile Business Intelligence.
Part Two. Summary and Readiness Checklist.
Part 3. Dashboard Design.
Chapter 14. Design Tips.
Chapter 15. Dashboard Examples.
Part Three. Summary and Readiness Checklist.
Part 4. Managing a Dashboard Project.
Chapter 16. Planning the Project.
Chapter 17. Engaging the Users.
Chapter 18. Project Tips.
Chapter 19. Training and Deployment.
Part Four. Summary and Readiness Checklist.
Appendix A. Software Selection Tips.
Appendix B. Installation.
Appendix C. Hardware Recommendations.
Appendix D. Security Authentication Techniques.
Appendix E. Metrics and Key Performance Indicator Examples.
About the Authors.
Index.
And here are some other business dashboard books you should check out.
tags: Dashboard Books

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