Dashboards are an effective tool for distilling data into actionable insights. Well-planned dashboards can align your organization’s efforts, speed up decision-making, track performance outcomes and increase ROI.

In order to see, understand the complete picture and make fast & data-driven decisions, you’ll need to build dashboards that can show you what’s really happening across many sets of data, correlate patterns across multiple metrics and provide both a summary & in-depth views of performance.

For improved dashboards, start by considering the following six best practices:

1. Connect to all of your data.
2. Blend your data together.
3. Choose metrics that matter.
4. Use better visualizations.
5. Use your data in the field.
6. Share for collaboration.