The Dashboard Spy Newsletter starts off with the delivery of a ready-to-use html dashboard template. It’s a pure html, cross-browser compatible web front end that will save your front end coders weeks of time. While not rocket science, business intelligence web front ends require precision and exact attention to detail. The CSS is enough to drive any coder crazy. Here’s a screen shot of the dashboard template:
By popular demand, I’m posting it again for download.
There’s absolutely no charge and you are free to use it for your dashboard project. Download the file here:
For best results, right click and save the zip file to your hard drive. Be sure to fully extract the file. You’ll see an html file and a folder. Open the html file in a browser.
Remember that this is a web front end coded in html. You’ll need to wire it up to your database. Also, you’ll need to integrate a charting component for the graphs. Right now the charts are just image placeholders.
Enjoy the download. A lot of you have put this dashboard template to great use.
Dashboard Spy email newsletter readers responded very favorably when I sent them this video by Simon Sinek. It’s a TED Talks presentation on “The Golden Circle”. It’s an amazing explanation of the WHAT-HOW-WHY of why some people or organizations are so purposeful and innovative. Take a look. The Apply explanation is incredible. After the video I’m going to share a great comment from a reader.
Wasn’t that fantastic? Here’s some feedback I got from Therese Bernier, PMP a Dashboard Spy reader who is a Project Manager in Healthcare IT that really sums it up.
Hi Hubert,
I finally got around to watching this TED talk, and I’m glad I did! The information about the limbic system is very useful, I now understand why some products appeal to me and why others don’t. I remember when The Gap came to Canada, they had bus shelter ads that just grabbed me. I can’t even describe the print ads, but I do remember how they made me feel. I don’t shop at The Gap anymore though, that news a few years ago about their factories in India made me decide “They’re off my list.”
Getting back to what Simon Sinek had to say… I read Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman a couple of years ago. That book explains the limbic system in great detail and how it controls our emotions. (When I read it, I wasn’t thinking about product marketing, I read it to improve my people skills.) My guess is someone at Apple thoroughly analyzed that book and used it to their advantage. BTW, I buy Apple products not because of a feeling, but because their product quality is very high.
Next time I’m looking for my next job, I will use that “WHY” aspect during interviews. What I do and How I do it is certainly important in an interview situation, but it’s the Why, why my passion for my field (Healthcare IT) gives me purpose (exactly as Simon Sinek said, why I get up in the morning), that will help me connect with the interviewers.
Dashboard Spy Video Resource: Here’s a good introduction to the topic of Enterprise Dashboards. This youtube video features Shadan Malik of iDashboards. By the way, speaking of iDashboards, be sure to check out their new cloud-based excel dashboard solution at this link:
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