One number, finally
Consolidating KPIs into one model exposed small definitional differences that had made reports disagree for years.
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Executive Reporting
Executive Business Performance Dashboard
One leadership view of the numbers that matter.
- Power BI
- DAX
- Executive Reporting
- Time Intelligence
Overview
Leadership reporting pulled executives through multiple reports and slide decks, each with its own definitions of the same KPI. This dashboard consolidates executive KPIs, financial performance and business trends into a single, regularly refreshed view.
The design favours clarity — a small set of headline KPIs, clean trend visuals and drill-throughs for the detail behind each number.
The business problem
Executives were drowning in reports but starving for answers. Different teams presented the same metric with different values, meetings restarted from the numbers instead of the decisions, and preparing the monthly pack consumed days of analyst time.
Executive KPIs
Management view
Revenue growth
+6.8%
Margin
31.2%
Region A
+5.2%
Region B
+4.1%
Region C
+2.8%
Objectives
- Consolidate executive KPIs into a single leadership view
- Standardise metric definitions across departments
- Provide drill-through from headline numbers to underlying detail
- Keep the report readable in a five-minute review meeting
Data architecture
- 01
Source systems
Finance and operational data consolidated from their respective systems.
- 02
Power Query transformation
KPI definitions centralised so every report computes the same number the same way.
- 03
Semantic model
A single semantic model serving every leadership view — no metric defined twice.
- 04
DAX measure layer
Time intelligence for year-over-year, month-over-month and trend calculations.
- 05
Dashboard layer
A calm, KPI-first layout with drill-through for the detail behind every number.
Dashboards
Executive KPIs
Management view
Revenue growth
+6.8%
Margin
31.2%
Region A
+5.2%
Region B
+4.1%
Region C
+2.8%
Executive KPIs
Management view
Revenue growth
+6.8%
Margin
31.2%
Region A
+5.2%
Region B
+4.1%
Region C
+2.8%
Key insights
Trends over snapshots
With trends on one screen, inflection points surface earlier than in month-end decks.
Drill-through adoption
Executives self-serve the detail behind headline numbers instead of waiting for the next pack.
Outcomes
Reporting time recovered
One consolidated dashboard replaced the monthly slide-pack assembly effort.
Definitional consistency
Metric definitions agreed once — reports stopped contradicting each other in meetings.
Self-serve leadership
Executives drill through to detail without waiting for the next analyst pack.
See the report in action
Live report coming soon — this case study will link directly to the published report.