Building a Strategy to Meet Your ESG Goals Building a sustainable company is no longer on the list of nice-to-haves. Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) metrics are insights that rank just as important as Return on Investment (ROI) for company executives, shareholders and even consumers. More than just financial benefit, having clearly defined ESG metrics [...]
Strategic Dashboarding and the Use of Imagery A picture is worth a thousand words I am a great fan of including imagery as part of my dashboard design and layouts. When used properly, images can add so much to a visualization; however, many would rather fill any spare white space with another number or a [...]
Feature Focus - Nested Custom Fields Available this month is a feature extension to Custom Fields. First, let's start with a recap of the purpose of Custom Fields within StrategyBlocks. There will often be times when ‘out-of-the-box’ fields don’t quite meet the specific reporting requirement you are looking for. As an example, some form of [...]
What’s ahead for 2022? We share our top predictions After the last two years, we can all agree that ‘predicting the future’ is an impossible feat. Still, we can benefit from looking at the business landscape around us and highlighting what trends are going to have the biggest impact in the months to come. Two [...]
Three Steps to Start Your ESG Journey Today On the heels of this year’s Cop26, it is clear that businesses around the world are committed to reducing their environmental impact and improving sustainability practices. Analysts from McKinsey & Company rightly noted that while nearly everyone is aligned on achieving NetZero, the path to getting there [...]
Feature Focus – StrategyBlocks V5.3 Release There are several exciting new features in the November release of StrategyBlocks! External Dashboards Dashboard Grid Metric Block Face Update Small Metric Network Block New Filter Control External Dashboards Last month we discussed the drive toward true strategic transparency and we have been actively discussing with our customers what [...]
Roadmap to Achieving Strategic Adaptation The strategic planning trend Toward the end of 2020 we analyzed some StrategyBlocks usage trends which gave us a glimpse into the frequency of strategic planning cycles. There was a strong indicator that the cycle of strategic renewal was gathering pace. That means the way we map out the course [...]
Five Reasons to Improve Strategy Execution Now A couple of years ago we shared a brief article on the benefits of strategic planning. We highlighted only a few examples, particularly as it helps internally with company organization and communication. Still today, one of the first questions we are asked is “why should our company have [...]
Feature Focus - Enhancements to Multi Chart Features Following the release of the custom dashboard multi chart, we have had some great feedback from customers enabling us to add some extra features and functionality. New Pie Chart (see above!) Everyone seems to love a pie chart, so a couple of options have been added to [...]
Transforming City Government, One Data-Driven Decision at a Time City governments across the US have been under a spotlight in recent years, credited with groundbreaking initiatives and managing through unforeseen upheaval in everything from natural disasters to a global pandemic. Sometimes at odds with, or even forgotten by, federal government officials, cities have forged ahead, [...]
