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The KPI Waterfall: How to Make Your Entire Company Goal-Focused

As a company grows, it’s easy to lose focus on the primary business objective. Each team ends...

  • by Laura Tyson

Interview with a Startup Co-Founder: How Tracking KPIs Could Have Saved LayerVault

Success stories are always inspiring, but sometimes we learn the most from failures - our own and from others....

  • by Laura Tyson

Customer Support: 6 Metrics and KPIs to Improve Self-Service

Editor's note: this is a guest post by Adam Rogers, content marketer at Kayako. The more...

  • by Laura Tyson

6 Hacks for Creating a Transparent Culture at Your Company

It’s easy enough to talk about having a transparent culture and the benefits are certainly compelling. Transparency...

  • by Laura Tyson

Choosing Metrics: How to Keep Your KPIs Simple

KPIs are the business equivalent of a compass. They show where your company is headed (orientation) and how...

  • by Laura Tyson

Benchmarks: how to set challenging but realistic business goals

Imagine you want to breed bunnies. (Why not? Bunnies are adorable!) If you don’t know how quickly...

  • by Laura Tyson
Turn your Salesforce reports into live TV dashboards to inform your team

Turn your Salesforce reports into live TV dashboards to inform your team

  • by Nick Smith

Salesforce reporting basics: building, aggregating, segmenting and formatting reports

The Salesforce reporting feature is really powerful. However, if you’re just starting out, it can also be...

  • by Tom Randle

How to Use Iterative Design to Keep Your Dashboard Relevant

Imagine having a dashboard with beautiful, easy-to-read visualizations and data from five years ago that’s...

  • by Laura Tyson

Using spreadsheets for communicating data? Here are 4 reasons you shouldn’t

We all love spreadsheets, right? They’re great for manipulating and analyzing your business’s data on Key...

  • by Geckoboard Staff

What do you mean I'm not supposed to use Pie Charts?!

Pie charts are completely ubiquitous - especially in business. It can therefore come as a shock to hear that...

  • by Tom Randle

Two business dashboard books you must read before building your own

Here at Geckoboard HQ, nothing (except maybe doughnuts) makes us happier than a well put together business dashboard...

  • by Adele Simor

Put your key metrics where your team can see them

Geckoboard turns data from the tools you already use into live, shared dashboards, so your team can spot problems earlier and act while there’s still time.

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