Key Performance Indicator Sales Slice and Dice 
Occam's Razor
APRIL 19, 2010
"What is the difference between a metric and a key performance indicator (KPI)?" Key Performance Indicators. Key Performance Indicator: Key performance indicators (KPI's) are metrics. I'll look over my historical performance. Dimensions.
datapine
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
If you are reading this, it probably means that you understand the importance of tracking your performance and its progression over time. Be it in marketing, or in sales, finance or for executives, reports are essential to assess your activity and evaluate the results. How do you know that? How do you know that? click to enlarge**.
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Occam's Razor
JULY 15, 2014
You need access to data, the ability to analyze (slice, dice, drill-up, drill-down, drill-around) interesting data points that your performance throws up, ability to understand what caused the performance (often by understanding who did, what and where in other parts of the organization), and the power to make decisions.
datapine
MAY 21, 2019
Robust dashboards can be easily implemented, allowing potential savings and profits to be quickly highlighted with simple slicing and dicing of the data. Consult with key stakeholders, including IT, finance, marketing, sales, and operations. Ineffective dashboards can be easily updated to focus on business needs.
Occam's Razor
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
It is a safe assumption that if the yellow box was bigger (better matching), and/or the red box was bigger (better matching), the real impact on store sales is much, much bigger than $20 million. Even if the fonts and numbers were larger, it is extremely difficult to compare the slices (despite three big shifts).
Occam's Razor
JANUARY 31, 2017
Too many bars, inside them too many slices, odd color choices, all end up with this question: what the heck's going on here? We throw off a lot of data as a subtle way of earning a great job performance review. What you want to do instead is to do all the slicing, dicing, segmentation, beautiful math, and then step above it.
Jet Global
DECEMBER 2, 2019
Reports tend to narrowly focus on a specific operation or dataset for a period (monthly sales, daily customer orders, weekly open AP, etc.). First, you should never perform analysis for large volumes of data. For starters, performance from the live production database will be insufferable.
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