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When I worked in company management, we talked about "dashboards" as a monitoring tool. You might have a range of measurements made to monitor quality or business performance, such as number of customer complaints, total sales value per week/month, etc. For each indicator there would be a target and you might also set threshold values for alert and warning status. Values can be taken from a company computer system and fed automatically into an applicaiotjn like Excel where each value is plotted over time and the applicaiton automatically signals when thresholds or targets are achieved. Like the dashboard on a car, which gives you a "topl-level" view of what is going on under the bonnet.

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Note added at 26 mins (2011-01-15 10:57:05 GMT)
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BTW, seems to fit your list of items perfectly: complaints, invoices, no. of badges, etc.