Business Dashboards: A Visual Catalog for Design and Deployment

by Nils H. Rasmussen, Manish Bansal, Claire Y. Chen

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. Nils Rasmussen (West Hollywood, CA) is cofounder and Principal of Solver, Inc. Claire Y. Chen (Long Beach, CA) is a Senior Business Intelligence Architect at Solver, Inc. Manish Bansal (Irvine, CA) is Vice President of Sales at Solver, Inc.

Genres: Business

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Bernd]

Two hundred pages full of beautiful high-gloss pictures, and littered with buzz words. For $85 at retail I would never buy such book. But freely available to me from MSFT library, it helps to find out how the typical consulting client thinks (Business Intelligence being all about pretty pictures these days).

[Leonidas]

Summary: Although written to focus on the niche of dashboard design, simply removing the word 'dashboard' and you have a book teaching proper business systems analysis, Requests for proposals (RFP), business requirements documentation (BRD), project management life cycle (PMLC) with respect to technology, and database architectures (overview).

Basically, a grant overview of what a business systems analyst will need to know in the technology industry.

Review: Well formatted, with interspersed points of interest (graphs, highlights, tips, guiding images). A couple walls of text though, which don't exactly save time when reading (fluff text), and a lack of overall examples (only an Appendix).
Overall though, a great read if you are in this particular niche, or would like to develop your knowledge of Business Systems Analysis and Deployment.

4/5 Stars!

Food for thought: If this was kinda fun to read, it must be my passion right? :)

[Emily]

This book is much less elegant than Stephen Few's, and displays all sorts of dashboards that violate Few's precepts left and right. However, it's more realistic about business practices on the ground--making do with data and tools that are actually available, working with teams and stakeholders, etc.

[Budi Susanto]

Although it is a simple book about business dashboard, but give me the basic understanding about it.