Live dashboards: put the number on the wall, not in a report
Today's figures, this month's leaderboard, the target and where you are against it. On a screen the whole team walks past, updated when the number changes rather than when somebody remembers to send the spreadsheet.
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The number that matters lives in a spreadsheet nobody opens
Most teams have a figure they are working towards and almost no visibility of it between monthly meetings.
A sales office has a target on a whiteboard, updated by whoever remembers, which by the third week of the month is a fortnight out of date and quietly ignored. A charity is running an appeal with a thermometer drawn on flipchart paper by the door; the real total is in a spreadsheet on the fundraiser's laptop, so the paper says £4,200 when the truth is £6,900. A gym runs a step challenge and posts the standings in an email on Fridays, by which point nobody remembers where they were on Monday. A warehouse tracks picks per hour on a screen that shows a system nobody can read from more than a metre away.
What an invisible number costs you
A target nobody sees is a target nobody chases
Progress only changes behaviour if people can see it while there is still time to do something about it.
Whiteboards decay quietly
Nobody announces that the board has stopped being updated. It just becomes wallpaper, and then it is wrong for a month.
Real dashboards are built for a laptop
A BI dashboard on a wall screen is unreadable from across a room: small type, dense charts and a login that times out.
Competition needs an audience
A leaderboard in an email is a list. The same leaderboard on a wall is a reason to try, because everyone can see it.
Big numbers, readable across a room
Live figures and ranked lists are content you type or update, shown at a size people can read from where they stand. Change a figure and every screen showing it follows within seconds.
Put a screen where the team works
The office wall, the warehouse floor, the gym entrance, the staffroom. Any TV with an HDMI port.
Pick your figures
A total against a target, a count, or a ranked list of people or teams. Large type, no chart nobody can read.
Update it when it changes
From a phone or a laptop, in seconds. No export, no reformatting, no email.
Ready-made figure Boards: leaderboard, a quick number and a countdown
These are the actual Boards your wall can show instead of a whiteboard.
How different teams use a figures screen
Sales and lettings: the month against the target
Where the team is, who is where, and how long is left. Visible every time somebody walks to the kettle.
Charities and schools: the appeal total
A fundraising total that is actually current, so donors and pupils see their contribution land rather than a figure from a fortnight ago.
Gyms: challenge standings members can see
A step or class-attendance leaderboard by the entrance. Far more engaging on a wall than in a Friday email.
Warehouses: today against yesterday
Picks, dispatches or safety days, in type readable from the floor rather than a system screen nobody can see.
Why NowBoard suits a number on a wall
Built to be read from across a room
Large type and one idea per screen, which is the opposite of a BI dashboard and the point of a wall.
No login on the screen
The screen shows a Board, not a browser session. Nothing times out and nobody has to log it back in.
Rotate figures with everything else
The leaderboard, then notices, then the rota. A Playlist means one screen does several jobs.
A countdown adds urgency
Days to the deadline beside the total, which is what makes people act on it.
Different teams, different screens
Each floor or site shows its own figures from the same account.
From £10 per Screen/month
Free plan runs one Screen, which is enough to see whether a visible number changes anything.
Common questions about live dashboards
Does it pull figures from our CRM or spreadsheet automatically?
Not today. Figures are entered or updated by your team. If an automatic feed matters to you, tell us where the numbers live and what you would want it to read.
Can it show a web dashboard we already have?
Yes, with a Web Page Embed Board, if the page can be opened without a login. Be warned that most BI dashboards are unreadable at wall distance, which is why the built-in figure Boards exist.
How many people can a leaderboard show?
Enough for a team. Keep it to what someone can take in while walking past: a top ten reads better on a wall than a list of sixty.
Can we show a target as well as the total?
Yes, and it works far better than a total on its own, because progress is what people respond to.
Who can update the numbers?
Anyone you invite and give the right role. It is a form on a phone, not a report build.
Put the number where the team can see it
One screen, one figure that matters, updated the moment it changes.