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The 7 characteristics of genuine KPIs | Performance Management BESTSELLER: Data Science for Decision Makers™ - AI, BI, organization, people & technology handbook
The 7 principles of genuine KPIs Author: Daan van Beek Senior KPI and Strategy consultant
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Genuine KPIs are a needle in a haystack Just like water, KPIs can also become cloudy. When it comes to KPIs, you might be able to live with that, thinking you’re on track when you’re not. That’s why it’s much wiser to regularly purify contaminated KPIs. With the following seven characteristics , you can determine if your KPIs are clean and meet the highest standards, just like our drinking water. By delving into these characteristics, you’ll gain a better understanding of the essence of true KPIs. This is crucial because you need to be able to trust KPIs blindly. Ideally, clean KPIs have predictive value and do not cause perverse incentives. And, like pure water, they leave no strange aftertaste. Put your KPIs under the microscope now and gain much better insights.
The 7 characteristics of genuine KPIs Compare measurable KPIs to our list of characteristics, the further down the list you get, the greater the chance that you have a genuine unadulterated KPI up your sleeve.
Domino effect: a bad score on a KPI can cause a domino effect of problems. Think of things like rescheduling, rework, waste, complaints, fines, image damage, extra costs, et cetera. Find out in your organization where most of the misery occurs or can occur. Then look at what the root cause of that misery is. Direct impact on your profits: a bad score on a key performance indicator always has a direct impact on the profitability of your organization. The words “always” and “directly” indicate a 1:1 relationship. For example, your turnover can increase or decrease, but this does not necessarily mean that your profitability will improve or deteriorate immediately. Therefore, what we popularly call the revenue KPI is not a true KPI. Direct impact on customers and employees: a KPI always has a direct impact on your profitability as well as on your employee or customer satisfaction and in some cases even both. Then you really have a very important KPI up your sleeve. Starting point for continuous improvement: key performance indicators are primarily aimed at improving the total (existing) process. With them, your results will improve and you can optimize the process. They are less suitable for finding and implementing product innovations. Key success factors: KPIs make the key success factors of your organization clearly visible and easily measurable. So that the strategy and business model can be on everyone’s mind. This is relevant and important because, in 78% of organizations, the majority of employees do not know what their contribution to the strategy is. KPIs are by definition not financial: the moment you can express the score of an indicator in euros or dollars, one thing is certain: it is not a genuine KPI. Of course, a KPI does always have a financial impact. Many traditional CFOs and controllers can find themselves in a difficult position because of this. Directly influenceable: the score on the key performance indicators can be directly influenced by employees who work in the processes every day. For example by adjusting their behavior, by rearranging their work, or by adapting systems. KPI development is a process Years ago, I facilitated the development of KPIs for the first time. I was standing in front of a blank flip chart and I asked my client to brainstorm about possible KPIs. I was a novice consultant and my colleague, the project manager, had just left the room to answer an urgent phone call.
Although I had a basic understanding of what good KPIs were about, I got no further with helping my client than naming project milestones (“the web design will be complete in August”), improvement initiatives (“we have to redesign the CRM process “) or vague ideals (“customer loyalty”). What I did not realize is that you can use a lean approach when developing KPIs. This process is based on the results you want to achieve with the strategy, so you filter out all the superfluous information and reach less = more knowledge. Just as in any other process, when developing KPIs you need the experience and discipline that are vital to continuously improve the process.
Agreement on the strategy is often an illusion When organizations develop their strategies they have a habit of writing down that strategy in ambiguous and abstract ideals. If you plan to convert strategy into indicators, it is essential to write down that strategy in plain language. Language that deals with sight, hearing, taste, touch, or smell. An ambiguously written strategic objective, such as improving customer experience, can be translated into faster payment processing or fresh and clean hospital facilities.
I’ve seen teams working on strategies switch from 100% agreement on vague ideas to opposing ideas about possible desired results. This means that their agreement on the strategy was actually an illusion. To describe the results you want to achieve, use a language that an 8th-grade student could understand. If you do your best together to get specific results in that way, you will then easily come up with clear KPIs. The SMART KPI Toolkit 2024 Do you have too many KPIs? Are you getting lost in an inscrutable maze of indicators? Passionned Group's SMART KPI toolkit helps you decide whether or not an indicator really is a genuine Key Performance Indicator. Contains KPI examples from many different industries, exercises, and in-depth study material.SMART KPI Toolkit
It’s not about the Dashboard Dashboard software like Board or Qlik is excellent when used to support a well-developed strategic and operational management system. However, in many cases, there’s more interest in advanced business intelligence tools than knowing what’s behind the process. KPIs are not about the management dashboard at all. KPIs serve to get a clear picture of what you’re trying to achieve and monitor progress towards the goal. A dashboard is a supporting instrument; too strong an emphasis on technology leads to distraction.
It’s not about the KPIs In terms of distractions, we notice a lot of clients who think that the process starts and ends with the KPIs themselves. Unfortunately, they are often only concerned about complying with reporting requirements. Or preparing for an important meeting. Such an approach completely ignores the power of KPI development. Namely, the fact that KPIs provide decision-making insight and allow for continuous improvement on a daily basis.
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