New Looks for Intranets and Dashboards

From Personal Use to Personalization

The movement toward the personalization of content appearing in dashboards, as well as in what’s displayed in intranets, is symbolic of the increasing prevalence of these tools in society. Today, that encompasses much more than the workplace. As Crawford indicated, dashboards have become a mainstream means of managing information for everything—from culinary preferences to personalized banking. In doing so, they have become formidable instruments for setting expectations in the workplace for how information is displayed, how those constructs function, and what sort of value they deliver to employees engaged in a diversity of tasks. 

The personalization facet of these tools is epitomized by the statistical expressions of AI that are responsible for tailoring the results of dashboards to the individuals employing them. Consequently, the new look of dashboards and intranets is likely to continue to include capabilities for “being able to rate results,” Crawford said. “And you see this in some dashboards now; is this useful, and you can put ‘yes’ or ‘no,’ or give it a thumbs up or down, or somehow rate the chances the database is taking on making recommendations to help you hone your algorithm more to continue to further personalize your dashboard?” 

The new looks for intranets and dashboards will continue to expand on enhanced visualizations and personalization to further knowledge flows.