Dashboards nobody opens

Every organisation has a dashboard nobody opens. Usually several. They were requested sincerely, built competently, and abandoned within a month.

The failure is almost never technical. It is that the dashboard answers a question nobody actually asks on a Tuesday morning, or it answers it too late to matter, or it cannot be trusted because no one can explain where a number came from.

Before building one, it is worth asking what decision changes based on this, who makes that decision, and how often. If those three answers do not arrive quickly, the dashboard is decoration.