Tag: Dashboard Design
Seeing Dobble
Have you ever played Dobble? Its a brilliant game; infuriating at times but fun. It turns out we can learn a lot from Dobble about how to make faster decisions using charts. Read more
Capability Clarity
The Capability Canvas is the Measureology way of visualising Capability Maturity Model (CMM) scores. CMMs might not be perfect, but the Capability Canvas helps to reveal priorities for finding valuable causal evidence. Read more
When Charts Lie
Could something as simple as the charts we use affect the decisions we make? Yes, according to our Visual Signals survey research. Read more
Seeing a Silent IT Transformation
When an IT function set out to transform itself from an ugly duckling into a swan it wanted to make its ‘Silent IT’ strategy visible to the business.
Do Leaders Drive Mopeds?
Why would software developers think that business leaders want a dashboard like the one on their racing car, speedboat, aeroplane or moped? Read more
6 Deadly Dashboard Sins
Stephen Few is respected for his unflinching critique of poor dashboard design and he inspired me to look at dashboards through a different lens.
A Bellyfull of Pie
This chart has been served up on LinkedIn recently and will no doubt have data visualisation purists choking. Read more
Seeing the Value of EU Law
I was very proud to present my Subsidiarity Scoreboard work at the ECR Group Study Week in Krakow, Poland.
I was inspired by the people I met, especially those MEPs who are so passionate about their work and their dedicated policy advisers. I’m fascinated by the tension between ideological belief and evidence, claim and fact and this is the world they wrestle with daily.
My talk was about Seeing the Subsidiarity Gap; the idea of a scoreboard for making the gap between the predicted and actual added value of EU law more visible. Publishing this Scoreboard could influence the reform of lower value EU laws and even the legislative process itself. Watch the talk below.
I was however struck by another kind of gap; the gap between my own mental models and those immersed in EU law, economics and politics. And yet, in spite of this difference in mindsets and worldviews, how Systems Thinking can be a unifying approach however challenging the domain and context.
The study, sponsored by the New Direction Foundation for European Reform, is described in a bit more detail in the case study.