Patent ID: 8209218

Claim:
A method of displaying KPI-related data on a display device in accordance with information received via a user input device, the display device and the user input device being operatively coupled to one or more digital computers, the method comprising: a. for each dashboard future time frame of a plurality of dashboard future time frames, for each KPI of a plurality of KPIs, determining a respective predicted KPI value and displaying, on the display device, a respective indication of the respective predicted KPI value; b. for a selected influencer-ranking future time frame, for a root-cause KPI selected from the plurality of KPIs whose predicted KPI value in the selected influencer-ranking future time frame is predicted to be influenced by behavior of a set of influencers, displaying, on the display device, a predicted future influencer-ranking-hierarchy including identifiers of a first plurality of influencers of the set of influencers, the first plurality of influencers being displayed in accordance with predicted relative influence contributions to the predicted KPI value of the root-cause KPI in the selected influencer-ranking future time frame; c. for each influencer of a second plurality of influencers of the set of influencers, receiving, via the user input device, a respective user-proposed deviating influencer value, the second plurality of influencers being a subset of the first plurality of influencers; d. determining one or more deviating future KPI values for one or more of the plurality of KPIs, the one or more deviating future KPI values derived from the user-proposed deviating influencer values based on: i. a selected influencer action future time frame for the user-proposed deviating influencer values; ii. a deviating-KPI-viewing time frame for the user-proposed deviating influencer values; and iii. the received user-proposed deviating influencer values; and e. displaying, on the display device, for one or more of the plurality of KPIs, descriptions of the one or more deviating future KPI values derived from the user-proposed deviating influencer values.