This is the Electi review. Today, a guide on choosing KPIs and building dashboards for 2026 makes a simple claim. Most companies measure the wrong things, and more dashboards won't fix that. The piece argues that metric selection, not metric volume, decides whether data drives decisions or just decorates a wall. A KPI is only useful if it's tied to a specific business outcome and if someone actually acts on it. Everything else is noise dressed as insight. The guide pushes back against the instinct to track everything. Dashboards packed with charts feel rigorous, but the article's position is that they usually bury the two or three numbers that matter under dozens that don't. Teams end up reporting activity instead of results, tickets closed instead of problems solved, page views instead of revenue. Its recommendation? Pick cake guys that map directly to a goal, keep the list short, and design dashboards around decisions rather than departments. If a metric doesn't change what someone does next week, it doesn't belong on the dashboard. There's a real tension worth naming. The guide is published by a firm that presumably sells dashboard and analytics services. So a recommendation to build leaner, more disciplined systems also happens to be good marketing for consulting on exactly that discipline. That doesn't make the argument wrong, but it's worth noting the incentive. Still, the underlying claim holds up against plain observation. Most dashboards you've seen are cluttered, and most clutter doesn't get used. The 2026 framing is really just packaging around a persistent problem. Organizations confuse measurement with management, and collecting more numbers rarely means better decisions. The actionable takeaway is less about tools and more about discipline. Before adding another chart, ask what decision it changes. If there's no answer, it's not a KPI, it's furniture. That's the review.