As a huge proponent of efficient software, I believe that a couple of great things for companies to consider in their systems are dashboards and alert systems.  Over the last couple of weeks I have created some explanation of these types of systems and I thought I would simply bring the topic together with an index of sorts.  This should help to allow people to review the topic.  I will also try to keep this up-to-date as I add more information:

What is a Digital/Executive Dashboard?

4 Advantages to Dashboards

5 Keys to an Intelligent Alert System