Like gears in a car, each metric in your business needs to be the proper fit in order for it to function successfully. Relying on the wrong metrics will not allow your company any long-term success.

It's important to track your progress, and even more so, to be notified of issues as they happen in order to resolve them easily and quickly. Operational dashboards alert you to deviations in data, allowing you to easily track your progress, resolve issues, and even take notice of opportunities.

Continuing from where we left off, in part 2 we dive into how to choose and validate your KPIs from your critical success factors.

Every type of dashboard serves a distinct purpose. In order to know which dashboard will solve your problems most effectively, you need to start by learning the purposes of each. The type we went over last week was