Karen Abecia is a Microsoft MVP, professor, entrepreneur and international speaker who teaches Excel, dashboards and AI through YouTube, LinkedIn and Instagram. · From Excel Expert to Microsoft MVP
Dashboards can show more deployments, faster pull request merges and more AI-generated code, suggesting a golden age of delivery. · The Productivity Illusion
Leadership routes around dashboards by asking humans or increasingly Copilot, because decision latency matters more than perfect charts. · Why Executives Ignore Power BI Dashboards
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A Microsoft MVP, professor and entrepreneur known as an Excel educator, who teaches Excel, dashboards and AI in a practical way to a large audience online. · From the episode: From Excel Expert to Microsoft MVP
Why can AI break engineering KPIs?
Metrics like deployment frequency or lead time can improve while review queues grow, technical debt rises and code needs constant rewrites, so dashboards show activity rather than system health. · From the episode: The Productivity Illusion
Why do executives ignore Power BI dashboards?
The episode says dashboards expired, not failed. Executives now want answers about what changed, why, who owns it and which decisions are affected, and dashboards scale visibility rather than judgment. · From the episode: Why Executives Ignore Power BI Dashboards
What do executives use instead of dashboards?
They ask people or increasingly Copilot, because decision latency matters more than perfect charts. This is not about visualization quality or adoption but about a changed decision model. · From the episode: Why Executives Ignore Power BI Dashboards
Are dashboards really dead?
The show notes take a nuanced view: 77 percent of business leaders still rely on dashboards, so they are evolving rather than dying, combining storytelling and AI for better decision-making. · From the episode: Why Executives Ignore Power BI Dashboards
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