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It\u2019s hard to imagine a world without personalization.<\/p>\n

From personalized recommendations on Amazon to personalizing the look and feel of business software, the ability to customize the look\/feel and data displayed of any and all software products is nearly universal.<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, there used to be a time when you purchased a piece of software, and it looked the same as everyone else who owned it. Each \u201coff-the-shelf\u201d copy had the same colors, the same fields, the same layout, and so on.<\/p>\n

The same goes for the early days of the iPhone.<\/p>\n

The first version of the iPhone included a handful of default apps \u2014 phone, calendar, camera, map, clock, web (Safari), and so on. The background was the same for everyone. There was no way to add or remove apps.<\/p>\n

You got what you got.<\/strong><\/p>\nFast forward to today, and it\u2019s hard to find a piece of technology that cannot be customized and personalized to fit each organization, each team, and each individual.<\/span><\/a>\n

Personal dashboards are the perfect example of what customization looks like in the workplace.<\/p>\n

In this article, we\u2019ll share how you can go about creating a personal dashboard, discuss why personalization matters, and show you how monday.com can help.<\/p>\n

Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n

What is a dashboard?<\/h2>\n

Before we talk about personalized dashboards, let\u2019s first define dashboards.<\/p>\n

Dashboards give businesses the ability to monitor the health of their organization by measuring, tracking, and displaying key performance indicators (KPIs) and other essential metrics at a glance.<\/p>\n

Dashboards are an integral part of what makes monday.com so powerful. You could say dashboards are part of our DNA.<\/p>\n

In monday.com, users build dashboards that pull data across many boards so stakeholders can get a complete high-level view on anything they may want.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We allow external developers to easily \u201cextend the monday.com platform\u201d by developing their own dashboard widget within our no-code\/low-code framework. The result? a platform that is virtually limitless and can solve nearly any complexity related to a business.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an example of what a personalized KPI dashboard could look like on monday.com:\"\"<\/p>\n

Dashboards are comprised of both back-end data (i.e., software that connects your files, boards, columns, and so on) and a front-end layer that displays this data in various formats \u2014 charts, graphs, numbers, and gauges.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not all that different from a car dashboard\u2019s data screen, one that displays the most essential information about a car\u2019s health \u2014 information that is helpful to all car owners yet specific to your vehicle.<\/p>\n

monday.com dashboards pull pretty much any data from your boards and display it on custom widgets for easy consumption.<\/p>\n

How we think about personalization (and personalized dashboards) at monday.com<\/h2>\n

Personalized dashboards help businesses monitor all the essential data at their organization \u2014 from the high-level KPIs to the individual performance-level information.<\/p>\n

These data help companies keep up with the competition, track team efforts, and boost sales and overall team performance.<\/p>\n

Personalized dashboards provide \u201cat-a-glance\u201d insights necessary to see whether a project or initiative is likely to succeed\u2014no more guesswork. Instead, you can truly understand what is happening \u2014 in real-time \u2014 with any team in your organization.<\/p>\n

This openness and transparency are critical for a well-functioning company. Transparency is everything at monday.com, as co-founder Roy Mann outlined in this blog post<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sidenote: We believe so firmly in business transparency (and data and personalization) that we built our own business intelligence tool called BigBrain that collects and processes data from over 200 million events per weekday from multiple separate sources and aggregates it into one place that every employee can access. BigBrain meticulously tracks and measures everything we do \u2014 every dollar we\u2019ve spent, every dollar we\u2019ve received, how our customers are engaging with our product, how quick our support response time is, and so on.<\/em><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve built \u201cmini-versions of BigBrain\u201d for all customers in our personalized dashboards.<\/p>\n

Try now<\/a><\/p>\n

How personalized dashboards help make business decisions with confidence<\/h2>\n

monday.com is a collaborative management software that gives a visual overview of where things stand at a glance.<\/p>\n

And personalization is at the core of all dashboards.<\/p>\n

After all, your executive dashboard<\/a> should not \u2014 and will not \u2014 look the same as your peers or your competitors.<\/p>\n

Custom dashboards help users:<\/p>\n