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Got the Data Shakes

Too much of anything is never a good thing, even when it comes to information. As corporate dashboards get ever more sophisticated, executives are wrestling with when to cut back on the data feed

By Dave Lindorff | Updated on March 01, 2007

Does your dashboard make you feel like you had too much caffeine? Just as car dashboards have gone from the exquisite simplicity of the original Volkswagen Beetle’s speedometer, odometer and fuel gauge to current awe-inspiring displays of global positioning systems, iPod docking stations, scrolling message boards and voice recognition, so too have corporate performance dashboards moved beyond a few basics of delayed cash flow information.

Today’s financial dashboards represent a real-time bonanza of constantly updating and recalculating data feeds that, if not well conceived, can literally drive an executive to distraction, according to technology experts.

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