Eleven dashboards in. One decision per week out.
Ten archived, not deleted
Including 2wk change management
Same room, fewer arguments
One owner per metric
The problem.
Eleven dashboards. Three BI tools. Two single-sources-of-truth that disagreed. Every team had built its own view to defend its own number. Every Monday the CEO walked into a room and asked "where do we focus this week" and got eleven different answers. The CFO had stopped attending. The Chief of Staff was spending six hours a week reconciling figures for the board deck. None of the eleven dashboards survived a question.
The approach.
First two weeks: I interviewed every dashboard owner. What decision is this view supposed to drive? Who owns the metric? When was it last opened? Seven of the eleven hadn't been opened in 30 days. Two were powering nothing but ego. Next three weeks: redesigning around the actual Monday-meeting workflow — five metrics, one owner each, one decision per week. The other dashboards got archived (not deleted; anyone could pull them from BigQuery on demand). Nobody did. Last three weeks: building the screen, instrumenting alerts, and sitting in the Monday meeting four times to coach the CEO through running it without me.
The outcome.
The Monday meeting is twenty-two minutes. The CEO opens with the five-number screen and asks one question: "what's the biggest delta this week, and who's on it?" One person speaks per metric. One decision gets made. The CFO came back. The Chief of Staff stopped reconciling — the screen is the deck. Three months in, the team hasn't built a new dashboard. They've thought about it twice. Both times they fixed the screen instead.
“We didn't need another dashboard. We needed someone to delete ten of them and tell us which five numbers actually mattered. That was the engagement.”
If the answer involves counting and the next question is 'which one do I open?' — let's talk. One slot open for Q3 2026.