Give a provost twelve KPIs on one screen and they will use none of them. Give them one number that changed since last week, with a one-click path to the detail, and they will open it every Monday.
The dashboards I build that actually stay in use share three things: a single owner accountable for data freshness, a refresh cadence people can rely on without asking, and a design that answers “so what?” before it answers “what?”.
The BI tool is rarely the bottleneck. The gap between a dataset and a decision almost always is.
