PGA Executive Dashboard for Media Convergence

Executive dashboards replacing TV? The idea of watching a sports event on the web instead of on television has been kicked around for a long time. The rationale is that the web can offer interactivity and drill down capabilitiy that the TV set just can't (forget about the age-old pursuit of interactive TV - it's like looking for the fountain of youth!). Now with the widespread adoption of digital dashboards, it looks like it is now ready for prime time.

Well, in today's Executive Dashboard post, here is a dashboard screenshot taken while some avid golf enthusiast was watching a PGA tournament online. It comes from this post at skye journal. It has a skype conferencing window on the left so that he can chat with fellow fans (the ultimate live color commentary), a golf tournament dashboard provided by pga.com in the middle and a slingbox video feed on the right.

Note that in this paradigm, the actual video is all the way on the right. What is more important is the interaction with fellow fans and monitoring relevant KPIs, metrics and statistics via the golfing dashboard. Is this the future of television? Will people be dialing it to their executive dashboards?

Here is the executive dashboard screenshot. Click on the dashboard to enlarge the image.

Tags: Interactive dashboard, executive dashboards, enterprise dashboards, golf dashboard