Executive Dashboard Review · an example
Every system you run. One board brief.
The questions leadership already asks, answered every morning from the systems you already pay for: the brief, the one number, four quadrants, and the screens behind them.
Ten executives, ten dream dashboards
What you look at every morning.
Click through it. One per seat at the table, built from the questions that seat actually asks. Every figure names the system it came from, and the one number on each rolls forward instead of looking back.
Executive Dashboard
Example dashboard
The CEO’s dream
See the business 24 months out, and what each waiting decision is costing by the day.
Hover any point for the figure· click any number or row for the records behind it
Operating margin %, 12 months back and 24 ahead, as a range. Re-rolled every morning.
Decisions waiting on someone, and what each day of waiting costs
Asked of the dashboard this week, and what it answered
Ask it in plain words. It answers in board-room form, tagged to whose numbers it used.
The six lines, and what to do about the two that are out
Start with the questions you already ask.
The method never starts with data. It starts with the questions leadership asks every week, then finds where each answer lives, and brings them back in board-room form: current, sourced, and tagged to whose numbers they are.
What you get
The board brief, four quadrants, one number.
The board brief
Top of the page, every morning.
- What changed since the last review — in three lines, with the source of each.
- What needs a decision — and whose decision it is.
- What to worry about — the one risk that is growing.
One hero metric
The number that changes the decision.
For an operating-system company it is net margin per member, month over month: what each member pays, minus what it costs to serve them, rolled forward twelve months and re-rolled daily.
Yours will be a different number. Every dashboard we build has exactly one.
Sales
Can we deliver what we're selling this quarter?
Market
Which offers and channels bring members who stay?
Customers
Who is getting value, and who do we call this week?
Deliverable
What shipped, what is waiting on a human, what is at risk?
Next step
Send us five questions.
Start with the five you ask most, or borrow ours. We'll show you where each answer lives today, and what it looks like on the board brief.
We are not here to sell you another system. We are here to make the systems you already have tell you the truth.