PHX Reporter

With the celebration of the first anniversary of the launch of the City Manager's Performance Dashboard, the City is seeking feedback from those who live and work in our City to enhance the platform and advise the advancement of open data at the City of Phoenix.

Last year, Phoenix City Manager Jeff Barton launched the dashboard to serve as a transparent online tool to provide easy-to-access information about the City's successes and benchmarks. This modern and efficient dashboard displays more than 130 key performance metrics across 28 City functions, to provide a holistic view of the performance of City operations.  

“I value the feedback of our residents and I look forward to hearing how we can enhance the dashboard. I am committed to meeting the goals of our City and working with our residents to continually provide information that is in their best interest, and as important, showing areas where we need to improve to meet our strategic goals," said Phoenix City Manager Jeff Barton. 

In the past year, the dashboard has received 6,322 unique visitors and a total of 33,386 pageviews.  Approximately 43.6% percent come from Phoenix with the majority of the others from California, Washington, D.C., and New York. Visitors from diverse countries such as Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Portugal and Saudi Arabia also engaged with the dashboard.  

The dashboard received national attention for its innovative approach to engaging the community in a Citywide data and performance initiative, including being featured as a “Borrow this Idea" in Bloomberg Philanthropies SPARK news distributed to City Halls around the world, and the dashboard was named a finalist at the IDC Smart Cities North America Awards event in Denver earlier this year.  

The City Manager's Performance Dashboard Enhancement Survey is designed to help Phoenix collect information related to the user experience for the City Manager's Performance Dashboard. The goal is to receive feedback from both internal and external stakeholders to better understand what is working well and, in the spirit of continuous improvements, to identify potential enhancements for the next iteration of the dashboard. 

The survey should take 5-10 minutes to complete and is available online at Phoenix.gov/innovation.

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