{"id":1353,"slug":"construction-job-cost-dashboards-weekly","title":"Construction: weekly job-cost dashboards (labor variance, committed vs actual materials, change orders, billing vs % complete, backlog) catch margin erosion before month-end financials arrive","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["kevin","smb-owner","candid-team"],"topics":["gc-vertical","dashboards","decision-linked-metrics"],"reference_body":"**Claim:** **Construction**: weekly job-cost dashboards covering **labor-productivity variance, committed vs. actual materials, change orders, billing vs. % complete, backlog** to catch margin erosion before month-end financials arrive — by which point \"that bad pour, slow crew, or expensive material swap is old news.\"\n\n**Source:** Industry practitioner consensus.\n\n**Confidence:** Industry-consensus.\n\n**Why this matters for Candid:** The clearest *worked* example of a dashboard tied to **named decisions with clear thresholds** — the [[what-would-i-do-if-it-moved-test]] test is trivial here. For Ontario GC clients in the existing psychology cluster, weekly job-cost is the canonical *internal* dashboard.","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[],"incoming":[{"slug":"research-brief-dashboards-smb-june-2026","title":"Research brief: dashboards for SMBs — what's worth showing, and when an embedded one earns its keep (June 2026)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"professional-services-dso-dashboards","title":"Professional services: DSO (Days Sales Outstanding) dashboards with aging buckets + at-risk-customer flags; 30-45 days is a common \"good\" benchmark; rising DSO is an early cash-flow warning","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"manufacturing-oee-80-20-pm-target","title":"Manufacturing internal dashboards: OEE, MTBF/MTTR, PM compliance, planned-vs-reactive ratio (world-class target ~80/20)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"cross-industry-internal-dashboard-use-cases-roundup","title":"Cross-industry internal dashboards round-up: e-commerce (conversion, inventory turns, CAC), healthcare (occupancy, readmissions), logistics (on-time, exceptions), SaaS (activation, churn, NRR), hospitality (occupancy, no-shows)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"rule-qualify-every-metric-with-decision-and-threshold","title":"R1 — Before building any dashboard, qualify every proposed metric: named owner + named decision + action threshold; if it fails the \"what would I do if it moved?\" test, drop it","kind":"rule","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"}]},"created_at":"2026-06-20T18:03:12.122Z","updated_at":"2026-06-20T18:03:12.122Z"}