The cockpit of an airplane is a more complex example of a collection of instruments that reports information critical to successful air travel. The driver of a car or the pilot of an airplane monitors multiple indicators of performance simultaneously to arrive at the intended destination successfully. At any given point in the journey, the driver or pilot may focus on one indicator, but overall success depends on the collective performance of the systems represented by the indicators.
This example depicts that dashboard tools that report on the ongoing performance of the critical processes that lead to: