For example, every organization, even nonprofit organizations, must be aware of their financial situation. Therefore, a dashboard for this portion of an organization can include information on how initiatives are being funded, total sales and expenses, changes in sales and expenses from one period of time to another, and how the stock price fluctuates (if the organization is publically traded). A dashboard that would be useful in a research and development division of a pharmaceutical company would outline the effectiveness of patient recruitment in a clinical trial for a particular investigational drug, the adverse events that have shown to be most prevalent in the clinical trial, and the outsourced cost of all of the clinical research organizations that are utilized throughout the trial. For a Chief Medical Officer, all of this information is critically important, as they will not have the time to be directly involved in all of the daily activities for each particular