Since the advent of Big Data Analytics over a decade ago, the challenge has been to gather the data so that you can see the data and display it in such a way as to allow it to be useful in the day-to-day processes of a business.  Dashboards are very popular for this exercise— and rightly so. However, your dashboards are a crutch used to identify things from the past and correct them.  They help you learn the 6… 8… or 10 things that your team needs to work on in a given amount of time.  But they give you false KPIs.  

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