4 reasons your council should consider a Power BI Cabinet Dashboard

In today’s fast-paced world, local and regional governments are under increasing pressure to deliver efficient and effective services while managing limited resources. To achieve these goals, it’s essential to have a comprehensive and actionable view of your council’s performance.

If you are tired of spending countless hours manually gathering data and creating non-interactive reports. Lack of actionable insights limit your ability to make informed decisions, with the potential for risks around quality, human error and responsiveness, limiting your ability to drill-down and extract actional insights and and drive positive change in your council, the Cabinet Dashboard could be the answer.

The power of data-driven decision making

The Government Cabinet Dashboard offers a powerful solution for councils seeking to leverage data-driven insights. This interactive and intuitive Power BI dashboard provides a 360-degree view of your council’s performance, enabling you to make informed decisions and drive positive change.

It’s robust enough to handle the amount and variety of your data, and interactive enough that you can drill down to get the exact insights you need, built within the powerhouse that is Power BI.

With that in mind, here are some reasons your council should consider the Cabinet Dashboard.

KPI performance and trend analysis

Monitor your KPIs with ease, at Executive and Operational levels, with a single point of access to view performance across all your KPIs, at varying levels. Maybe you want to be able to drill down into your KPI performance, export that data and present it to key stakeholders; maybe you want validation that your KPIs are fit for purpose; maybe you want to have the option to scale to new KPIs (or beyond!) – these are all easily feasible with the Cabinet Dashboard.

Not only do you have a single point of access to view your KPIs, but the dashboard provides commentary and insight for you to understand the ‘why’ behind the ‘what’. This enables you to make data-driven decisions with insights that you may have predicted, but now have concrete proof of. Along a similar vein, you can reduce the time and effort of creating manual KPI performance measures and trends – with all the data you need on a Modern Data Analytics Platform and presented in Power BI, your resources can spend their time on more impactful work.

Optimised resource allocation

As mentioned, the Cabinet Dashboard can help reduce the time and effort needed to gain insights and present them in a digestible way. This means you can re-allocate your resources to work on more affective projects and therefore more productive work. Not only does Power BI eliminate much of the manual exertion, but the Cabinet Dashboard also utilises PowerApps as a way to add commentary. PowerApps enables observations to be added to KPI measures over time, providing explanations, context and notes to inform future decisions. This means you can consolidate not only your data, but also the commentary that goes along with it.

Improved Key stakeholder buy-in

With the ability to export visualisations from Power BI, sharing your insights just got a whole lot easier. Drop them into presentations (or include the necessary Power BI report as a whole!) to show exactly how your council is performing, based on stats and data, to enable swifter decision making that you know will make a difference. You can also prove compliance to regulations and adherence to standards with a readily available and easily accessible dashboard, where all your council’s data can be gathered in one place.

Fully scalable depending on your needs

With the ever-changing socio-economic landscape, we understand how important it is for your council to be able to adapt your data solution. Depending on your needs, the Cabinet Dashboard is fully scalable thanks to the Modern Data Analytics Platform underpinning the Dashboard. This uses Microsoft Azure technologies to host the Cabinet Dashboard, so you can scale for additional KPIs or reporting needs, even if they weren’t implemented in the initial dashboard. The Cabinet Dashboard is made bespoke to your council and your needs, so you can choose if, when and how you scale.

Conclusion

By implementing the Cabinet Dashboard, your council can:

Save time and resources by automating data collection and reporting.
Make data-driven decisions based on actionable insights.
Improve stakeholder buy-in by sharing data-driven insights effectively.
Enhance operational efficiency and optimise resource allocation.
Stay ahead of the curve by leveraging the latest data analytics technologies.

To learn more about how the Cabinet Dashboard can transform your council, please contact us today via our live chat, or find out more about our Power BI Cabinet Dashboard here.

Blog Author

Tom Hughes, Business Development Director, Simpson Associates