Going Beyond Actionable Insights

A hot topic of today’s dashboards and algorithms is “actionable insights”. These are incredible chunks of data that help the user process information and turn it into a physical action to carry out. For example, let’s say you’re a fleet manager who is learning that your vehicle’s next oil change is coming up in a month. Actionable insights offer you reasonable suggestions, such as scheduling it ahead of the expected change date. With that said, actionable insights can be found everywhere now. To properly use them, you’ll have to go beyond actionable insights. That might sound scary, but trust me, we have the solution to make your life easier.

How Actionable Insights Should Connect to Decisive Actions

What sounds better to you: An alert telling you to get that oil change soon, or an alert that directs you to your calendar, and helps schedule that oil change? I’m almost certain most will say it’s the latter. Actionable insights can be good to predict upcoming data, but nothing beats natural direction. With recommendations on decisive actions, you will get information on what to do and how to do it.

Locating Your Biggest and Smallest Costs

Actionable insights can determine where the biggest bottlenecks are in your spending. They aren’t just for predictive maintenance, but for past problems. For instance, you could have saved money on repair costs, driver accidents, and idle time. Using the last example, let’s say you have a driver that is on top of their vehicle’s health; they make deliveries on time, but they just idle a bit too much. Not only does that mean there’s a gap where you can fill in their schedule, but it also is an identifier to improve a driver’s weak points so that they can improve.

Habits: Easy to Identify, Hard to Break

Going back to driver training, there are bigger issues beyond idle time, such as harsh breaking or accelerating. Normal insights will inform you that a driver needs training in these areas, or they might be even simpler, notifying moment-by-moment when the driver is performing an unsafe action. These are shortsighted and unhelpful in the long term because they don’t actually identify the solution. Actionable insights will tell you what you can do to improve these areas, but they also need to tell you how to go about them. Remember the phrase “It’s easy for you to say.”? It’s easy to tell your driver to improve these things or even tell them solutions. It’s more beneficial to be given directives that walk you through various solutions to break these unsafe habits, so that the driver doesn’t make them again.

Customizing Your Dashboard to your Preferences

Having all of this information at your disposal is fantastic for a manager, because it’s quick, accessible, and easy to understand. However, when you’re faced with a lot of data, you begin to wonder where to start. While actionable insights deliver the best decisions you should make with your data, it doesn’t always tell you how to start. That’s why having a custom dashboard where you can see the data you want to see first, and put the inactive stuff to the side is also a valuable tool. Reports that come to you shouldn’t just sit in a big folder with all the others, instead it can be moved exactly where you need it to go. This makes your data even more accessible.  We’d be glad to walk you through how OnPointSolution.ai delivers real-time recommendations on decisive actions to implement savings and safety opportunities for your specific fleet. Reach out at info@onpointsolution.ai or schedule a demo at onpointsolution.ai/schedule-a-demo.