While on a flight to Vegas I was browsing through some of Wayne Eckerson's book Performance Dashboards. I know what you are thinking, what kind of dork reads a performance management book on a flight to Vegas, shouldn’t you be playing video poker and getting your drink on? To that I respond, ever heard of thing called detox, and besides, how can you ever get enough Eckerson, come on, that guy is the man!
What I wanted to point out, or rather revisit is an old visual analogy of the performance management iceberg, a great visual tool for understanding how BI and performance management relate to each other, dashboards and scorecards being just the tip of a much larger beast lurking beneath. Looking back the my time spent analyzing the data warehousing market and speaking with customers about the value of performance management there was always a gap between ETL and overall information management best practices with the sex and sizzle of a cool executive dashboard. It’s always good to go back to the basics, especially when dealing with sales people (did I write that out loud?) and a good visual model is a good as gold, or in this case as good as an iceberg!
Eckerson, Icebergs, time for some vodka, later ya’ll
What I wanted to point out, or rather revisit is an old visual analogy of the performance management iceberg, a great visual tool for understanding how BI and performance management relate to each other, dashboards and scorecards being just the tip of a much larger beast lurking beneath. Looking back the my time spent analyzing the data warehousing market and speaking with customers about the value of performance management there was always a gap between ETL and overall information management best practices with the sex and sizzle of a cool executive dashboard. It’s always good to go back to the basics, especially when dealing with sales people (did I write that out loud?) and a good visual model is a good as gold, or in this case as good as an iceberg!
Eckerson, Icebergs, time for some vodka, later ya’ll
