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A KPI dashboard is an interface tool that consolidates data from multiple sources (e.g., ERP systems, CRM platforms, financial software) to track and display key performance indicators (KPIs) (e.g., revenue growth, customer satisfaction, operational efficiency), enabling teams and executives to monitor organizational performance and create presentations for stakeholders.
KPI dashboards are typically built using flexible tools like Google Looker Studio, Power BI, Google Sheets, or platform-specific solutions to enable high customization and integration of multiple data sources.
An actionable KPI dashboard balances context and specificity based on the audience (executives, managers, and analysts) and their use cases.
Executive dashboards for CEOs, CFOs, and board members show the organization's bottom-line impact. Reviewed weekly, monthly, or quarterly, they include:
Manager dashboards have cross-departmental views with drill-downs to see performance by team, project, region, and time period. They help align teams, define strategies, and include:
Operational dashboards for analysts and department managers have granular, customizable KPIs to solve technical issues. Monitored hourly, daily, or weekly, they cover:
Operational KPI dashboards are highly customized, built in flexible tools like Google Sheets or Looker Studio to enable data cleaning, blending, annotations, and integrating multiple sources.
To build a KPI dashboard, connect your data sources, choose a template on Looker Studio or Sheets, build your queries by selecting metrics and dimensions, choose charts to visualize your data, customize the dashboard, design and share via link, PDF or email.
Here’s the breakdown:
Define and connect the data sources to bring to your dashboard. Common sources are ERP systems for operational data, CRM platforms for customer data, financial software for revenue and cost data, and HR systems for workforce metrics.
To connect your data sources, go to portermetrics.com, choose the data sources to bring to your dashboard.
You can follow these tutorials on connecting your data:
Choose from dozens of KPI dashboard templates in Google Sheets or Looker Studio, designed for use cases like financial analysis, operational monitoring, and customer satisfaction tracking.
Learn to copy Looker Studio templates.
While templates are the starting point, make them specific for your business or organization. Map your specific metrics, especially custom KPIs, CRM data, financial metrics, and all the fields and metrics that you define as "key performance indicators".
Depending on your reporting tool—Google Sheets or Google Looker Studio, pick any of the dozens of templates created by our team and customers to solve your KPI reporting use cases, such as financial analysis, operational monitoring, and customer satisfaction tracking.
Once your dashboard template is downloaded, you may 1)modify it or 2) create a blank page to build it from scratch. Whatever the case, setting up a query always follows these steps:
You can follow these tutorials on adding data to your dashboards
To make your KPI dashboards truly white-label you can add logos, colors, fonts, and styling to mirror your brand.
Follow these tutorials to design your KPI dashboards:
Share your KPI dashboards via links, PDF, schedule emails, and control permissions.
KPI dashboards should include a mix of financial, operational, customer, and employee metrics to fully understand the performance of the organization towards business goals. They include:
Financial KPIs measure the financial health and performance of the organization:
Operational KPIs measure the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes:
Customer KPIs measure customer satisfaction and engagement:
Employee KPIs measure workforce performance and satisfaction:
To analyze these KPIs, segment them by: