Executive Dashboard Evaluation Scorecard
A structured way to evaluate whether your executive dashboards are actually driving decisions — or just being glanced at.
Most organizations have more dashboards than decisions.
Few organizations have ever formally evaluated whether a given dashboard earns its place in front of an executive, or whether it's inherited clutter from a prior initiative that nobody has the authority to retire.
Dashboards get built once and never re-evaluated
Executives skim, but rarely act on, most of what they're shown
No consistent bar for what "good" actually looks like
Five criteria, one honest score.
Score any executive dashboard against five criteria that separate the ones worth keeping from the ones worth retiring.
Decision Relevance
Whether the dashboard is tied to a specific, named decision — or exists in general.
Clarity
Whether it's understandable in under 30 seconds, without a walkthrough.
Trust
Whether the numbers match the agreed source of truth, every time.
Actionability
Whether it makes the next action obvious, not just the current state visible.
Usage
Whether it's actually opened and referenced regularly, not just in the room when it launched.
Built for the people who own this problem
Auditing a growing library of dashboards nobody has reviewed in years.
Wanting an objective bar before building the next request.
Managing reporting cadences for leadership teams.
Reviewing the full executive reporting portfolio as part of a broader cleanup.
Three steps to put it to work
Score each dashboard
Rate every executive-facing dashboard against the five criteria.
Retire or redesign
Anything scoring low on relevance gets retired, redesigned, or merged.
Set a review cadence
Build a recurring review into your calendar so this doesn't happen again.
Score your executive dashboards in 15 minutes.
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