Is real-time data always better?

No. Real-time is valuable when decisions are made in real time. For weekly planning decisions, daily refresh is usually enough and is cheaper to operate and easier to trust. Match refresh cadence to decision cadence.

Why do beautifully designed dashboards still fail?

Visual quality is not the constraint. Most failures come from misalignment with real decisions, definition drift between source systems, or unclear ownership of the dashboard itself. Industry BI adoption research has long pointed to these structural factors over visual ones.

How do we know our dashboard is actually working?

Track active usage, the number of decisions referencing it in meetings, and whether action items are tied to its data. "Number of charts" is a weak proxy; "decisions changed" is the real indicator.

Why Internal Dashboards Fail

An insight on why internal dashboards fail from CodeCraft Enterprise.