Navigating dashboards

A typical dashboard requires many cards to answer the variety of questions being addressed. As such, it is necessary to consider a navigational tree structure for all the dashboards to organize the cards and, thus, avoid card sprawl—dashboards with 20+ cards and no logical organization. Often, the first level of dashboard organization in an enterprise uses the departments in the organization such as sales, marketing, HR, finance, and operations. The second level tends to be role and process areas of focus such as the executives, managers, and front-line workers. However, some organizations take a process-based approach for the first level, such as order to cash, procure to pay, hire to retire, accounting to reporting, concept to launch, while others take a geo-based approach. That said, others approach the organization of the dashboard via job descriptions and leverage page filtering and PDP policies to constrain different levels of access within the page...