What is an Executive Dashboard?

An Executive Dashboard is a visual representation of a company’s key performance indicators, giving executives a quick overview of their company’s performance metrics in real-time.

How do Executive Dashboards Work?

Executive Dashboards connect with ERPs, CRMs, and other notification systems pulling all of a company’s operational data into one place so that managers don’t have to log into multiple systems to generate reports. A well-designed dashboard software will manipulate this data so that the information appears in an accessible format.

5 Benefits of Installing Executive Dashboards

  • Insight: Custom real-time charts, graphs, gauges, and reports can be used to effectively oversee personnel, machinery, and production processes from any network location within an organization.
  • Continuous Improvement: According to Peter Drucker, “If you can't measure it, you can't manage it.” With Executive Dashboards, managers can discover and track data trends within one location or across a corporation and know the moment a process reaches a critical state. This knowledge empowers management to make informed decisions.
  • Efficiency: Real-time data saves time. Executives save time that used to be spent logging in and out of multiple ERP systems compiling data for reports. The Executive Dashboard is constantly updated with real-time production and inventory data, linking inventory to sales orders.
  • Benchmarking Company Performance: With Executive Dashboards, management can easily measure their performance against their goals set in the company’s strategic plan.
  • Employee Performance Improvements: A recent project illustrates the impact of CAT Squared’s scoreboards at a poultry manufacturing plant. Because employees were able to see their yields in real-time, management was able to tap into their employees’ competitive nature and offer performance-based incentives, which dramatically improved employee morale and product yield. Our customer saw a complete ROI in less than one year. 

Are you interested in seeing how CAT Squared's Dashboard Builder empowers executives to easily build custom dashboards to track their KPIs? You’ll love the way our software tools help you problem solve.

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Kathy Barbeire

Written by Kathy Barbeire

Kathy Barbeire is a seasoned professional with a strong track record in leveraging new technology, data analysis, and storytelling to drive organizational success. As the marketing manager at CAT Squared since 2015, Kathy stays updated on industry trends to ensure our products remain adaptable to evolving standards and prepares our customers for disruptive technologies. She actively participates in a blockchain learning group associated with Blockchain for Arkansas (BC4AR), an initiative led by Governor Asa Hutchinson. Kathy's expanding knowledge and expertise enable her to create informative content that educates our supply chain partners and helps them navigate upcoming transitions. Kathy's educational background includes graduating magna cum laude from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in professional and technical writing, along with double minors in sociology and information technology. She later completed the MBA program at UALR. Prior to joining CAT Squared, Kathy applied her passion for data-driven storytelling to assist nonprofits in defining goals, tracking program metrics, and engaging donors and community stakeholders. She served as a program manager at the Our House Homeless Shelter in Little Rock and later at The Salvation Army Central Arkansas Area Command.