Excel Dashboards - Templates, Tutorials, Downloads and Examples. Dashboard reports allow managers to get high-level overview of the business. Excel is an excellent tool to make powerful dashboards that can provide analysis, insight and alert managers in timely manner. In this page (and others linked here) you can find a lot resources, templates, tutorials, downloads and examples related to creating dashboards using Microsoft Excel.
Use the below links to quickly access various sections of this page. What is a Dashboard? Dashboard reports allow managers to get high-level overview of the business and help them make quick decisions. How to Make a Dashboard? You can create dashboards using a lot of different tools. Read the following tutorials to understand how to make Excel Dashboards: Creating KPI Dashboards in Excel [6 part tutorial] In this 6 part tutorial, you will learn how to create a KPI (Key Performance Indicator) Dashboard ground up using MS Excel. Customer Service Dashboard in Excel [4 part tutorial] Project Management Dashboard Dashboard Examples. Tapping Customers for Product Ideas. Even at a young age, Kevin Sproles understood the importance of listening to customers.
Sproles was 16 when he founded Volusion, an Austin-based maker of e-commerce software that now has 180 employees and $22.5 million in annual revenue. In the early years, Sproles would spend hours a day on the phone with small-business owners who had signed up for his service, asking them how Volusion might improve, say, its customer checkout pages. Now that Volusion has more than 20,000 clients who pay $29 to $179 a month for its software, collecting customer feedback has become more difficult.
"I can't call up everyone to find out what they want," says Sproles, who is now 27. Last year, Sproles and his team, including Volusion's newly hired chief customer officer, David Mitzenmacher, began developing a formal process of soliciting and vetting customer suggestions -- as well as a system for quickly turning those ideas into new software features for customers. The World's Coolest Offices. The Future of Advertising: Three Agencies' Visions | Co.Design. In the December/January issue, Fast Company magazine takes an in-depth look at the tumultuous state of advertising on the eve of the biggest creative revolution the industry has witnessed in decades.
As a companion piece, we asked three agencies -- BBDO, Factory Design Labs, and Victors & Spoils -- to visualize the business today and what they foresee. Their contributions indicate an optimistic, if wryly cautious, view of the future. Have a look: Factory Design Labs "In both the current and future state consumers will control how and when they consume information," says Scott Mellin, CEO of Factory Design Labs. BBDO "Everything will continuously change, but people will always stay the same," says David Lubars, BBDO's North American chairman and chief creative officer.
The Future of Advertising | Page 2. The Future of Advertising: Three Agencies' Visions | Co.Design. The 7 Biggest Challenges in Merging Design and Business | Co.Design. Recently, I gave a speech at the RGD Design Thinkers event here in Toronto. For a first-ever keynote, I think it went ok, though I probably relied on reading out my notes too much. But given that I used this forum to tell designers they can be ? Dictatorial, inflexible, snobby? , people were pretty friendly. It's super long, but here's the text, along with the beautiful typographic slides designed by my friend Timothy O? A couple of weeks ago, I was discussing coming to this event with a designer friend of mine.
Now bear in mind that this was a designer talking! That he didn't was more than just an affront to my ego. And yet, we know in reality that they were never actually handed over. In fact, if we take a close look at our world and environment and businesses and systems and services, we must accept that we're not generally surrounded by gloriousness, at least any more than we were before this supposed grand renaissance. ? Design has been democratized. The Dawn of Like-vertising. Two truths of the online media world: brands want to develop social connections with consumers and there are tons of cheap ad inventory thanks largely to the explosion of social networking. The combination of the two could result in more advertising designed to drive social connections rather than transactions or brand awareness.
A new online ad network, RadiumOne, is debuting what it's calling "like retargeting. " The system works like this: Companies will pixel their pages to identify visitors. RadiumOne then uses that information to find those visitors around the Web and show them ads designed to drive them to "like" the brand on Facebook. The ad network is expanding the pool of potential likers by mining those candidates' social connections to also show the ads to them. In doing so, a target audience of 100,000 can grow by six or seven times, he said. RadiumOne is one of several companies hoping to cash in on the vast amounts of social data generated online.