Exam 13: Digital Dashboards

A ________ as an electronic interface that provides employees with timely, personalized information to enable them to monitor and analyze the performance of the organization.

________ allow information to be tailored to managers needs and pulled from discrete systems, providing "drill down" capability into details as needed.

Requiring all digital dashboard analytic reporting to operate from the same set of facts is referred to as:

What are critical success factors?

The type of thinking a manager engages in to reflect and examining one's own thoughts, beliefs, and assumptions while making a decision is called:

Is there a difference between digital dashboards and electronic reporting? If so, what are the differences?

The concept of ________ is that there are a limited number of factors that must be monitored by managers on a continuous basis in order to stay in control.

Problem solving is typically a standardized process that evolves over long periods of time in an organization.

What is a digital dashboard?

Data mining systems are much more focused on the provision of information and less focused on supporting the analysis of the information provided.

Which type of digital dashboard predominantly represents problem-identification applications and offers little capability for problem solving and analysis?

What are (2) issues associated with digital dashboard design and development?

The type of dashboard that displays information related to status reporting where the only comparative data is actual to budget on specific projects or activities is called:

________ articulate a comprehensive framework for corporate goals that could be cascaded down the hierarchy via sub-goals as well as aggregated and rolled back up into corporate goals.

The decision as to what is most important to monitor via a digital dashboard is a decision about where organizational attention will be focused.

The type of thinking a manager engages in to think back in time to review and interpret past events and experiences while making a decision is called:

The most popular category of dashboard usage is:

List and describe the (3) types of thinking that managers engage in while making a decision.

The most popular category of dashboard usage is strategy based.

The promise of balanced scorecards is no less than the delivery of a robust, integrated system of accountability and performance.