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dashboard adoption

/ˈdæʃ.bɔːrd əˈdɒp.ʃən/ - n.

1 [colloq.] Measured by logins, because measuring whether it changed a decision was harder.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The degree to which intended users actually open and act on a dashboard after it ships.

Evidence

See also

dashboardA wall of charts no one is assigned to act on.
report sprawlForty dashboards answering one question, each slightly, confidently wrong.
vanity metricA number that goes up to make a slide feel better and a quarter look busier.