Information Inundation
This week my friend Ahmad Chamy is taking over The Data Daily emails. He’s the Founder/CEO of D Cubed Analytics a Healthcare Analytics firm specializing in Power BI and Microsoft suite of technologies. This week he’s writing about how to communicate effectively with data (either in Healthcare or anywhere else).
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Healthcare executives today spend roughly 85% of their workdays on meetings and phone calls receiving status reports and updates. They suffer from the growing pressure of being inundated with information. If you are an analyst responsible for communicating important information to these executives, you need to be aware of the forces that are working against you and optimize your role and mode of communication.
Dashboards are incredibly useful tools to deliver key information to executives in an effective way...when done right.
A good dashboard meets these criteria;
Action Oriented
Purposeful Visualization
High Impact,
Interactive.
Stephen Few in his book “Information Dashboard Design” defines dashboards as “... a visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives, consolidated and arranged on a single screen so the information can be monitored at a glance”
A good dashboard helps executives rapidly monitor current conditions without inundating them with unnecessary information.
A dashboard is a visual information display that people use to rapidly monitor current conditions that require a timely response to fulfill a specific role. Dashboards need not be overly creative, nor should they be tabular displays of data.
In the coming days, I will provide specific tips on how to ensure your data dashboards are effective.
See you tomorrow,
For The Data Shop
