Why does The Dashboard Spy think this museum dashboard so important?

Click on the dashboard screenshot to find out:

As you see, this is a business intelligence dashboard in use at an art museum to track metrics such as visitor statistics and social media metrics. It’s a real “opening of the kimono” for the museum constituents. Talk about open book management!

One proud museum IT staffer noted:

So what’s so cool about our dashboard? We are really the first museum in the world to use technology like this. The public has access to statistics about attendance, the art collection and even our budget. Museum visitors can check to see how much has been spent so far this year and how it relates to what we projected in our 2007 budget. Visitors can also check to see how many people have visited Roman Art from the Louvre or shopped in the IMA Shop. For better or for worse, the IMA’s dashboard let’s you see the IMA from the inside.

Tags: Museum Metrics Dashboard