# “Help! I’m drowning in ad-hoc requests!” Stakeholders ask for dashboards. You...
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Original URL: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sebastianhewing_help-im-drowning-in-ad-hoc-requests-share-7453631072694849536-5RFS/
Author: Sebastian Hewing
Platform: linkedin
## Content
“Help! I’m drowning in ad-hoc requests!” Stakeholders ask for dashboards. You deliver. Then they ask for another dashboard. Then a slightly different cut. Then export it to Excel. You’re not building strategy. You’re running a reporting helpdesk. Here’s a 9-question canvas that flips the script: 1. Problem What’s the real business pain? If you can’t name it in plain English, don’t build anything yet. 2. Users Who are you solving it for? No, “the business” is not a user. 3. UVP Why should users come to your team instead of just guessing, using gut feel, or pulling GA numbers? 4. Solution Your product isn’t a dashboard. It’s the combination of decisions, workflows, and systems that drive action. 5. Distribution Adoption isn’t magic. Bake it into the user’s day-to-day. Motivate, enable, and trigger usage. 6. Systems No one should need three meetings and 5 weeks to get data. Automate the boring stuff. Let your team breathe. 7. Outcomes Measure what matters: Revenue, savings, satisfaction, efficiency. Dashboards are just breadcrumbs. 8. Costs The most expensive thing isn’t your Snowflake bill. It’s your team burning time on low-impact work. 9. People Hiring and team design is data strategy. Want outcomes? Hire for attitude, not just SQL speed. Want to stop drowning in dashboard requests and start building leverage? 👉 I recently shared with 5,000 data experts how to build a 1-page data strategy that creates business value and not dashboards. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gdVRj3GK ♻️ And repost if you’ve ever felt more like a dashboard factory than a data leader