The future of dashboards and scorecards looks bright. Today, many organizations have deployed performance management systems, but the size and scope of a majority of implementations is still small. This will change as user organizations gain more experience with these systems and vendors begin to offer robust commercial dashboard and scorecard solutions.

Growth is bound to happen because dashboards and scorecards provide business users with all the information they need to make effective decisions and achieve strategic objectives without being overwhelmed. These systems deliver data on demand as users need it--from visual displays that let users monitor KPIs at a glance to dimensional and operational data for conducting analysis and taking action.

Moreover, dashboards and scorecards are the key tools in a business performance management discipline that enables executives to communicate business strategies in a customized way to each employee and monitor the execution of those objectives to fine-tune the organization and keep it on track.