FAQ
Strategy dashboards, answered
What is a strategy dashboard?
A live view of objectives, KPIs, and initiatives with status against target — built from the tracked plan itself, so it updates when owners update, not when an analyst rebuilds it.
How do I connect disparate data sources into a single strategy dashboard?
Through the measure layer: each KPI in ClearPoint pulls from its source (spreadsheet import, API, or manual owner update on a reminder cadence) and every dashboard reads the same measures. One number, everywhere it appears — which is what makes a dashboard survive its first board question.
How common are public-facing dashboards?
Rarer than the marketing suggests. Of the 336 organisations licensed on ClearPoint in September 2026, 8.6% publish an embedded public dashboard — rising to 14.3% in local government, the only segment where public reporting is close to standard practice. The ones that last are refreshed by measure owners, not by a comms team.
What makes a dashboard “board-ready”?
Status, owner, and commentary on every tile — and one click from dashboard to the underlying measure history when a board member asks “why is this red?”
Dashboards vs scorecards — what’s the difference?
A scorecard organises objectives and measures inside a framework (Balanced Scorecard, OKR, custom); a dashboard is the visual layer on top. ClearPoint gives every scorecard its dashboards without rebuilding data.
Can we give the public a dashboard with role-based access behind it?
That is the usual shape: one embedded public view for residents or stakeholders, and role-based access behind it so department leads see and update only their own measures. Read-only viewers and board members do not consume an editor seat — across the platform, roughly three quarters to nine tenths of the people holding access, depending on sector, have view-or-update rights rather than full editor or administrator rights.
How fast can we build our first dashboard?
During your demo, live, on your data — and in production, within the 3-week setup to your first live scorecard.
Platform figures: ClearPoint product data, September 2026 — 336 licensed organisations, of which 91 in local government. Accounts past their licence end date are excluded; each organisation is counted in one segment only.