Before the smoke detector, the common man knew little about fire prevention. Today, the use of the smoke detector has completely changed your safety:

• Three out of five home fire deaths result from fires in properties without working smoke detectors

• More than one-third (37 percent) of home fire deaths result from fires in which no smoke detection are present.

• The risk of dying in a home fire is cut in half in homes with working smoke detection.

You own a house. And in that house are multiple smoke detectors, decorating the walls and ceilings of random rooms awaiting the rare instance that your house does go up in flames. These smoke detectors do just that, detect the smoke before the fire so that you and your family get out safe. It wouldn’t be beneficial if your house were on fire, burning to the ground and suddenly and alarm goes off telling you there’s a fire. I think at that point we’d already know.

The CEO of any sized company doesn’t know IT jargon, nor can he spend the time needed to look at loads of spreadsheets and discover what is going on. When a CEO of any sized organization looks at information about the progress of their company, one thought is on his or her mind “What can I do to make us more profitable?”  It’s not really beneficial to know all the good you’ve done. Boosting company morale is great, but when there is red in your charts on your dashboard, and metrics show your competition is surpassing you, you know you have to stop it immediately.

Enter Dashboards: The common business man’s smoke detector–complete with graphs and charts that represent your data. The number one reason to implement data visualization in 2015 was demand from executive leadership for self-service analysis. You can use dashboards to visualize performance, but the real value is using them to detect the smoke in your organization. Without dashboards you can’t see disaster coming.

Consider the following facts that are directly related to dashboard ownership:

• Better decision making – Simplistic views and revenue streams provide immediate insight to pivot your corporations quickly

• Revenue Growth – By being able to visualize your stream by relevant segment (i.e. Region, department, product, sku, etc..) changes can be made to enhance further growth in faster growing areas.

• Improved Operational Efficiency – The knowledge to know where and why we are losing profitability can be known before it’s too late.

• Enhanced Customer Service – Value added services through visualization for your customer base. This allows your customer to make better decisions with you as their vendor!

Smoke detectors save lives and they save homes. Their purchase has become a no brainer in the personal residence industry. They are a proven tool for detecting issues before they occur.

In the corporate world, the same critical detection exists today with Dashboards. Everyone can use them, everyone can gain from their on-demand, visually stimulating, and easy-to-use interfaces. Therefore, the question can no longer be, why do I need it? But instead should become do I need one for every office?

About the Author: John Florio, is CEO at 9DOTS Management Corp, LLC, a team of out-of-the-box thinkers committed to helping business users attain insight into their business information by solving their problems with data & analytics. As a results-oriented executive with extensive experience, John Florio brings a proven ability to design and carry out innovative strategies that maximize productivity and minimize costs. John has successfully directed all aspects of core business functions, including implementing and working with Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management tools, infrastructure design and IT management, financial transactions and reporting and customer service delivery. John is PMI Certified and a Six Sigma Black Belt. He enjoyed a successful career as an executive for a large insurance firm in Philadelphia and had spearheaded many of that organizations cost costing and process automation projects. John received his Bachelor of Science from La Salle University.

 

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