Data Product Adoption: Why Dashboards Fail Without User Strategy

A nine-month dashboard project launched to 400 employees. Twelve logged in twice. One user was the intern who wrote the docs. David Ohnstad explains the critical gap between building data products and building products people want to use. Full article: https://davidohnstad.com/data-product-adoption-dashboard-failure/

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-11-02
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23892982
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Big Data and Business Intelligence
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Data Product Adoption: Why Dashboards Fail Without User Strategy

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Data Product Adoption: Why Dashboards Fail Without User Strategy

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Abstract

A nine-month dashboard project launched to 400 employees. Twelve logged in twice. One user was the intern who wrote the docs. David Ohnstad explains the critical gap between building data products and building products people want to use. Full article: https://davidohnstad.com/data-product-adoption-dashboard-failure/

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