March 18, 2025
In the Department of Psychiatry at Anschutz Medical Campus, as elsewhere, there are many employees who would like to have access to dashboards for a variety of visual reporting needs … but not many technical staff to assist in developing these custom tools.
Fortunately, a department team set out to change the narrative around dashboards and reporting tools – and who can build them.
The group – Anthony Pfaff, Jake Pratt, Kasey Abrahamson, Holly Ables, and Sarah Nagle-Yang – had received a lot of requests for dashboards and realized there was no way to satisfy everyone without making people wait. They also realized that teaching others to build dashboards themselves would dramatically speed up service timelines.
Hence, they launched a project to provide the PowerBI dashboard tool and a small amount of internal consulting to guide others through their first dashboard implementation. The result: proof that you don’t have to be a traditional IT employee in order to build dashboards you need.
Read all about it here: Democratization of Dashboards.
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