Unlocking ROI and employee experience insights: Integrated dashboards for data-driven decision-making

How can a global science and technology company calculate and capture return on investments and return on experiences in improved usability of internal initiatives?

Client & Project Information

Client: Global Pharmaceutical

Industry: Pharma and Life Sciences

Area of focus: Define ROI and ROX, design a tracking and reporting solution

Engagement Duration: 6 months

Status: Live

Role & Responsibilities

Lead:

  • Led junior UI designer and business analysts

  • Solution design communications

  • Scope management

Design:

  • Workshop design and facilitation

  • Dashboard design

Methods used

Journey mapping

Wireframing

Mid-fidelity prototyping

High-fidelity prototyping

Usability testing

Structured interviews

Tools used

Prototyping and design

Collaboration workshops

Project management

Implementation


Task at Hand

ROI and Employee Experience Dashboards: Visualizing Data for Informed Decision-Making

We were challenged to understand the Return on Investment from digital improvement investments, side by side the Return on Experience of the employees and their usability of internal subsystems.

We designed a series of interconnected dashboards which best display the most impactful KPI´s.  

The Approach

Why this approach

In a complex global organization, there are often multiple initiatives happening to increase employee satisfaction, especially regarding their usage of internal HR systems. To understand which initiatives are having an impact, the client asked us to define and measure critical usability KPIs and design a way to display this information in an array of real time dashboards.

The Outcome

  • A series of interconnected dashboards allow stakeholders to understand the RoI from digital improvement investments on, employee experience and usability of internal systems.

  • By aligning with stakeholders from assorted business areas to define the most impactful KPIs and by designing dashboards to best display them, we are empowered and facilitated a more well-informed decision-making process on which digital improvements will result in the highest RoI for employee experience and satisfaction.

Exploring and Defining

Understanding the user and stakeholder needs

First, conducted a series of semi-structured interviews and designed and facilitated exploration workshops to identify user groups, user needs, business requirements, the current state of reporting, and defining KPIs. The result was a trio structure design where business, technology, and employee experience were tracked simultaneously.

Mapping the KPIs to the dashboards

Lastly, through series of workshops with the users and the stakeholders, clustered the KPIs, identifies the data sources, and mapped the KPIs to the trio structure we designed based on the outcomes of the exploration phase.

Designing and Testing

Visualising and prototyping

First, the dashboards were designed and prototyped while in parallel the data architects and business analysts set up the data architecture within the client environment. 

Testing and tweaking

Finally, tested the dashboards with the users through a series of user testing sessions paired with structured interviews, made the final adjustments and implemented the designs into the already set up PowerBI.