Bringing dashboards to life on an intranet

Communicating with style

Objective and brief

• An existing client, a major medical devices group, had already asked us to build an intranet site to help improve communication and collaboration across a group of 72 countries throughout EMEA.
• Management wanted staff to be more aware of their business performance relative to other countries in the region.
• They wanted to have a dashboard – but something creative - no traffic lights or speedometer dials!

How objectives were met

• Working with the client, we brainstormed an approach that would add some fun to the dashboards. We felt that weather forecast maps would fit the brief well.
• Having worked on many dashboards in the past, we knew and understood that one of the main challenges is keeping them up to date – therefore, data entry had to be quick and simple.
• We developed an XML-driven Flash dashboard that allowed the data to be easily  updated in text format, but that was displayed as weather symbols over a map of the countries in the region.

Resources

• Our guide to dashboards
• Keep your intranet up to date with dashboards
• Demo the dashboard