Targets, progress and status
Radial gauge
Places a value on a radial scale with optional target and performance bands.
- Indicator
- Performance against target
- Progress
What it answers
How far is a value along a bounded scale?
- Shape
- Circular or semicircular scale
- What it shows
- Position relative to range and target.
Example
The question
How close is the call centre to its answer-rate target?
Calls answered within 60 seconds, this week
Illustrative data. It belongs to no company.
When to use it
Use it when
A familiar single-metric gauge when space permits.
Avoid it when
Many metrics, arbitrary limits or a need for compact comparison.
How to read it
Read scale endpoints, current position and target marker.
Note
Define minimum and maximum.
The data you need
- Layout
- Single-record summary
- Fields
- Metric: text; Value,Minimum,Maximum: numbers
- One row is
- One metric and its scale limits. What is the grain?
- Rules
- Require Maximum > Minimum and define out-of-range handling.
- Optional
- Target and ordered performance-band boundaries.
- Preparation
- Confirm the metric definition, reporting period, target and favourable direction. Calculate rates or progress before applying transparent status rules.
- Units
- State each metric's unit. Achievement or completion needs its goal/baseline denominator; status colours and ordinal ratings are not numeric units.
Worked example
Value 72 on 0-100 sits 72% along the scale. A target 80 leaves an 8-unit gap.
| Metric | Value | Minimum | Maximum |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity | 72 | 0 | 100 |