Are you proactively reviewing key performance indicators in real-time to help you avoid disaster or open new business opportunities? Your competitors are.

Accessing all the information you need to make fast but well-informed business decisions has never been easy. Sifting through databases chock-full of critical company data, various corporate applications housing key business content, and the nearly limitless information available on the Internet can leave even the brightest, most efficient decision maker feeling like a navigator without a compass.

An executive dashboard is designed to provide an easy graphical display of corporate data allowing for faster, more informed business decisions. The integrated solution helps users quickly process information that is relevant and critical to their particular responsibilities and then focus on details or take action. A dashboard also provides single-click access to the rich analysis tools allowing you to drill down and further analyze critical business data.

Join this executive briefing and you will learn:

• What an executive dashboard is
• Why it matters to your business and how to quantify ROI
• How to prioritize the critical information you need displayed
• How to organize information to quickly identify and act on problems
• How a dashboard increases organizational effectiveness through collaboration

The Agenda

Registration - 8:30am - 9:00am

Welcome - 9:00am -9:15am

The Perfect Match: Microsoft Technology And Your Company
Data For An Effective Executive Dashboard - 9:15am - 9:45am
Tara Hadley, Business Productivity Advisor, Microsoft Corporation
Everyone who drives a car understands the importance of a dashboard. How fast are you going? How much gas do you have left? Are there any warning lights flashing? As an executive, would you like to have a web-based dashboard that represents key information to you at a glance? Imagine that you could determine with the click of a mouse and a glance what you need to run your company: How fast is revenue coming in? What are our expenses to date? What is our customer satisfaction rating? Are we running low on inventory? As a result of this session you will learn:

• Microsoft’s commitment to technologies behind the executive dashboard
• Why 60% of companies with a portal are deploying executive dashboards
• Characteristics of a well-designed dashboard for your business
• Tips for working with real-time data

Executive Dashboards: Make Real-time Information Work for Your Organization - 9:45am - 10:30am
David Goldstein, Principal, Knowledge Management Associates

Do you know what real-time information can allow you to detect critical events exactly when they occur in your business?

KMA will share how an executive dashboard can visually deliver critical business information from anywhere in the organization.You’ll hear about a large New England insurance company that leveraged a KMA dashboard solution to offer its executives consistent performance metrics across the business, greater visibility into trends and faster delivery of critical business information.

In this session you will learn:

• What an executive dashboard is
• Why it matters to your business and how to quantify ROI
• How to prioritize the critical information you need displayed
• How to organize information to quickly identify and act on problems
• How a dashboard increases organizational effectiveness through collaboration

Networking - 10:30am - 10:45am

The KMA Executive Dashboard: Offering the COO Real-time Insight to Improve Performance — 10:45am - 11:30am
David Goldstein, Principal, Knowledge Management Associates
In this demonstration, KMA will share how the COO of an insurance company uses an Executive Dashboard to gain insight into a mission-critical business process: claims performance. The COO uses the dashboard to identify key business owners associated with a process, and turns insight into action through real-time collaboration.

Q&A - 11:30am - 12:00pm

Every attendee will receive

• Readiness Assessment: KMA is offering a half day business assessment for qualified attendees to help identify critical SharePoint business features and develop a deployment strategy.
• Special Training Offer from New Horizons.

The Advisor

Tara Hadley - Business Productivity Advisor - Microsoft® Corporation

Tara Hadley, Business Productivity Advisor for Microsoft Corporation, assists New England business customers looking for ways to get the most out of the Office System they already own. Tara works closely with New England businesses on everything from bringing mobility solutions to their workforce to improving day-to-day collaboration with their existing software solutions. She focuses on business topics in key areas like portals, organizational collaboration and knowledge management, leveraging data to enhance decision making, and implementing technologies to streamline traditional paper-based processes. Tara is a graduate of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University with a concentration in Information Systems. Her background includes years of work helping to bring technology to the web and mobile devices.

The Expert

David Goldstein - Principal - Knowledge Management Solutions

David Goldstein is a co-founder of Knowledge Management Associates. For more than 20 years, David has been a widely quoted expert in business intelligence and knowledge management systems. David was a professor in the information systems area at the Harvard Business School, the Sloan School at MIT, and the Boston University School of Management. David holds a B.Sc. degree from McGill University, S.M. and M.E. degrees from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from M.I.T.

In his role with KMA, David has worked with a number of New England companies looking for ways to leverage business data to improve organizational effectiveness and decision making. David has spoken at a number of industry forums, academic roundtables and seminars in New England.

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