Make faster and better decisions with a dashboard

Essity is an international hygiene and health company active in more than 150 countries. It produces products such as tissues, incontinence solutions, medical items and nappies, under well-known brands including TENA, Libero and Lotus. The company has a strong focus on innovation and sustainability, aiming to improve people’s daily lives through its products.

Voedselbank Utrecht aims to provide families and individuals living in poverty with healthy and varied food packages. Data insights are essential for this mission: how many people are being helped, where the greatest needs lie, and how demand evolves over time.

With the right dashboards, you quickly extract valuable insights from your data. This allows you to make better choices and add immediate value to your organisation. In an interview with Consultancy.eu, Antonie van Velzen and Iga Jarosz explain how our dashboard solution helps you get a grip on your raw data.

An innovative start-up in the baby care sector aimed to work in a data-driven way in order to gain valuable insights and enable strategic growth. They engaged our support to help realise this ambition.

Impact Matters connects business professionals to social issues of charities and foundations. In doing so, they ensure that the right need and expertise are brought together.

It sounds simple: you regularly receive questions about a certain topic, so you decide to launch a dashboard to provide easy access to the answers. Usually, a great deal of time goes into creating these dashboards. You’ll find plenty of step-by-step guides online on how to build a good dashboard, but in the end, it’s often used far less than expected. Why does this happen—and more importantly: how can you ensure that you only build dashboards that are genuinely used?

Key Performance Indicators or KPIs are indispensable to keep track of the performance in an organisation in a practical way. It is therefore important to choose the right KPIs and to keep a clear distinction between KPIs and PIs. In any case, KPIs must match the mission and vision of your company. In this article, Rogier explains how to determine your KPIs and shows you the most common mistakes.

Valk Digital, an internet company, aimed to adopt a more data-driven approach. The marketing team was already discussing all the data weekly using an Excel spreadsheet, but due to manual data input, it was time-consuming and more likely to fail. There was a need for an automated, future-proof approach based on reliable data.

Dienst Testen is a crisis organisation created during the corona pandemic. Under the banner of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS), Dienst Testen ensures that everyone in the Netherlands can be tested quickly and reliably. Dienst Testen does this in collaboration with the municipal health services (GGDs) and laboratories. To quickly gain insight into the corona test figures in the Netherlands, Dienst Testen asked us and a number of other data consultancy parties to create dashboards in collaboration.

In times of the coronavirus (COVID-19), a good overview of the patients in the scaled-up intensive care of the Utrecht medical centre is vital. Employees must be able to view patient characteristics, the most current lab readings and the course of patients' vital signs at a glance. In addition, up-to-date insight into the bed occupancy per department and the capacity of the nursing staff is required. We immediately got started to provide the necessary insights for UMC Utrecht. As a way of also contributing in these times of crisis, we offered our hours free of charge.

Elsevierweekblad.nl is an online platform with news, opinion and background information. Various authors write articles on a variety of relevant topics on a daily basis. Elsevier Weekblad wanted to get a better grip on the content formula behind this. This required insight into the extent to which the types of content contribute to reach, engagement and sales of subscriptions.

Various departments within Univé made decisions based on data from multiple data sources and separate reports. As a result, each department made decisions based on different information. The departments were also not always aware of each other's performance. We investigated how the integration of the data sources using the Microsoft Power BI visualisation tool could improve decision-making.