Many executives and business users use dashboards to understand how their business is performing. But in some organizations, dashboards are underutilized or underappreciated. It is a perpetual challenge for dashboard designers to present up-to-date information in a clear, concise manner that encourages interaction and meaningful results.

In this eBook, learn advanced strategies for creating actionable, interactive and user-friendly dashboards that will help your organization track key performance indicators (KPIs). Learn how to get started with dashboards, find out what a dashboard is and what it is not. Discover how to gather input from business users about what they need in their dashboards and how to create different dashboards to meet the needs of various departments. Hear from experts Rick Sherman and Mark Whitehorn on dashboard design and learn new trends to help optimize today's dashboards. Get tips, screenshots and examples from BITadvisors, Inc. a Hingham, Mass.-based consultancy that specializes in designing effective dashboards and helping organizations make the most of them.

After you've explored this eBook, be sure to sure to visit SearchDataManagement.com to see a 12-minute screencast video with Brian Jordan, CEO of BITadvisors, who goes through dashboard examples and demonstrates some of the best and worst dashboards and scorecards he's seen.