Managing data can either be a time consuming roadblock to efficient and effective decision making or a competitive advantage by providing roadsigns that can indicate what lies ahead.  Successful emerging businesses use dashboards to improve decision making, manage costs and identify new business opportunities. This session will provide an overview to business owners and entrepreneurs on dashboards, business intelligence and key performance indicators.  It will also focus on how to efficiently navigate through multi-dimensional data, and demonstrate how data visualization, aka Dashboards, is a powerful tool  in making sense out of a “sea of data.”

Key take-aways will include:

• Identify what information is critical to your business (financial and operational), your Key Performance Indicators.
• How to create dashboards.
• How to support your decision making process.
• How dashboards can help identify your business’s opportunities.
• Build a personal stock of verifiable and sustainable business intelligence.
• Maintain your competitive edge with a repeatable business intelligence process.

Speaker

Steve Peterson, Co-Founder, webKPI

Steve has over 30 years of accounting and financial management experience for public companies as well as internet start-ups. Leveraging his passion for improved financial reporting and business knowledge, Steve started webKPI with Steve Sweeney in 2007. 

Prior to webKPI, Steve was the CFO for divisions of American Broadcasting Corporation (Television and Publishing); CFO at News Corporation’s Harper Collin San Francisco and GM for GST Telecommunications . In addition, he raised over $20 million in venture funding for several startups, plus co-founded SentryTrack Systems to provide municipal infrastructure monitoring.

Steve launched the largest QuickBooks Business Coach network in the country and has been a speaker at UC Berkeley and the Sleeter Conference. Steve holds a Master of Business Administration from Golden Gate University, a BS in Accounting from Villanova University and is a CPA.

About ASL Emerging Business Group: Best Practice Series

Abbott, Stringham, & Lynch (ASL)  Emerging Business Best Practice Series consists of lunchtime seminars that address ideas and facilitate discussions around financing, operations, building a team, and other areas essential to the success of emerging businesses.

ASL established the Emerging Business Group to help start-up and growth companies.  The Emerging Business Group provides a knowledge resource center of best practices for emerging businesses to streamline systems and operations, reduce regulatory risk, market themselves effectively, and free up entrepreneurs to focus on the business at hand.