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    Traffic lights – the decoration de rigueur for performance dashboards and reports. Have you gotten more carried away with the decoration, than with the rigueur? Take a look at these four common approaches to traffic lights, and see if you’ve got some room for improvement.

    Approach 1: % difference from month to month

    When this month is 10% worse than last month, the traffic light turns red. When it’s 5% worse than last month, the traffic light turns amber. When it’s

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    en more carried away with the decoration, than with the rigueur? Take a look at these four common approaches to traffic lights, and see if you’ve got some room for improvement.

    Approach 1: % difference from month to month

    When this month is 10% worse than last month, the traffic light turns red. When it’s 5% worse than last month, the traffic light turns amber. When it’

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    n approaches to traffic lights, and see if you’ve got some room for improvement.

    Approach 1: % difference from month to month

    When this month is 10% worse than last month, the traffic light turns red. When it’s 5% worse than last month, the traffic light turns amber. When it’

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    1: % difference from month to month

    When this month is 10% worse than last month, the traffic light turns red. When it’s 5% worse than last month, the traffic light turns amber. When it’

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    fic light turns red. When it’s 5% worse than last month, the traffic light turns amber. When it’s 10% better than last month, the traffic light turns green. Obviously, this approach works for time periods other than a month, and for cut-offs other than 10% and 5%.

    Such traffic lights encourage us, usually, to ask questions like “what caused such a big difference?” In turn, such questions encourage us, usually, to find some way to explain the difference. If we’re clever,

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