Example - regional scorecard

We'll consider another example dashboard which demonstrates slightly different objectives. Let's say everyone in the organization has agreed upon a key performance indicator of Profit Ratio KPI. Furthermore, there is consensus that the cut-off between an acceptable and poor profit ratio is 15.00% but management would like to have the option of adjusting the value dynamically to see if other targets might be better.

Consider the following dashboard:

This dashboard allows your audience to very quickly evaluate the performance of each region over the last 6 months. Executive management could very quickly pull this dashboard up on their mobile device and take appropriate action as needed.

The dashboard provides interactivity with the KPI target parameter. Additional means of drilling down into other dashboards or views could be provided if desired. If this view were published on Tableau Server, it is not unreasonable to think that regional managers might subscribe to...