𝗗𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘁. 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲.
The "Dashboard Era" of Business Intelligence is reaching a point of diminishing returns. For twenty years, we have perfected the art of looking backward. We built faster pipelines to show us what happened yesterday.
But the C-Suite does not need more "Time to Insight." They need "Time to Action."
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄: In the academic literature on Decision Support Systems, we often discuss the "𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻." This is the costly gap between seeing a chart and making a decision. Traditional BI is passive; it relies on a human to log in, filter, interpret, and then act. 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗕𝗜 collapses this latency. It shifts the paradigm from Descriptive (What happened?) to Prescriptive (Here is the anomaly, and here is the drafted response). The system evolves from a library into an engine.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄: When I sat in the "hot seat" as a leader, the most valuable assets we built were never the complex visualizations. They were the boring, invisible automations. A dashboard showing "Bed Capacity" is useful. An agent that detects a capacity bottleneck and automatically routes the "Divert Status" alert to the correct nursing supervisor is transformational. In my experience, the operational reality is that leaders are drowning in data but starving for bandwidth. They don't want another screen to check. They want a system that checks itself.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆: The next generation of "Data Adults" won't be judged by how many beautiful reports they manage, but by how many autonomous workflows they govern. It is time to move beyond the glass.
Originally posted on LinkedIn
