System wide dashboards - 2 part question

Hi

Again the newbie is asking questions

So, my background is in JIRA from Atlassian. There you can create dashboards and share them. You can also make a system wide default dashboard that all users get by default when they log in. As far as I understand, this is not possible in Sugar. Instead, there is the default dashboard (but we can´t mess with it, pre-configure it). Each user is left to his own. However, I´d like to be able to setup a system wide dashboard with dashlets and stuff that I think all user will benefit from, even though they might add to it later. Just as a good starter dashboard.

I´ve got 2 questions:

Q1: What is the best modification to accomplish a system wide, configurable dashboard?

Q2: Does same hold true with the side dashboard ("right column") - are they not configurable system wide?

If the answer is no, what would be the best mod to achieve that goal?

Here is what I mean by the side dashboard (just to be clear):

Again, thanks so much and have a gr8 weekend!

KGM