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READING-DASHBOARDS5 MIN READ

Scan by Question, Not by Tile

Use a decision question to choose which dashboard tiles deserve attention.

Do not tour the dashboard. Interrogate it. Start with the decision A dashboard review should begin with the decision or judgment at stake. Are we adding coverage, changing spend, escalating a risk, or learning whether last week's change worked? Without that question, visual salience chooses the agenda. Pull the relevant branch of the KPI tree Once the question is clear, choose the outcome and driver branch that answers it. This prevents a dashboard with many tiles from becoming many unrelated conversations. Use leading indicators for action windows If the decision is about what to do now, a lagging outcome may…

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