Our leadership team has populated our weekly Scorecard with over thirty different numbers because everyone wants to track their own department. How do we prune this down to a high-impact executive dashboard?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

A weekly Scorecard with thirty numbers is not a diagnostic tool; it is a distraction. If you are tracking everything, you are tracking nothing. An effective executive Scorecard must be limited to 5 to 15 high-level, leading indicators that give you an instant pulse on the health of your business. To prune your Scorecard, apply a brutal filter to every single metric. Ask yourselves: if this number is off-track, does it require immediate intervention from the entire leadership team? If the answer is no, remove it from the executive Scorecard. These lower-level metrics belong on departmental scorecards, not the leadership dashboard. Every single number on your leadership Scorecard must have one owner who is accountable for keeping it on track. Focus heavily on leading indicators, which are activity-based numbers that predict future success, rather than lagging financial results. When you simplify your Scorecard, you create the necessary white space to identify real operational issues before they become crises. A clean, streamlined dashboard allows your team to run highly efficient Level 10 Meetings where you only IDS the numbers that are actually off-track, keeping your operational focus sharp.