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Dashboards and management workbench

Dashboards are a clear way of communicating organisational strategy and succeeding in it. With critical success factors and the status information of their descriptive indicators presented as illustrative workbenches or scorecards, the central goals of the organisation can be visualised easily. This guides the organisation to consider the goals in both operations and decision-making.

The dashboards provide the executive level with a quick overview of the status and indicate any anomalies from plans. It may not be necessary to study the reports unless targets are missed or significant changes occur.

Electronic workbenches combine data needed in select, most important management processes and decision-making situations. The workbenches may be a good way of combining different types of data that may originate from within the organisation or from outside it. This data may consist of business intelligence reports, documents and other content, for example from Web sites.

The workbenches also provide support for data collection and for decision-making and planning processes, for instance.

On the workbench, the data is easily available, which promotes information utilisation.