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A complete guide to using KPIs to drive organisational performance

Is your business on track to achieve success? Key Performance Indicators For Dummies covers the essential KPIs that are useful to all kinds of businesses, and includes more than 100 different ways leaders can monitor and drive performance in their organisations.

This book helps managers understand the crucial KPIs that should be implemented for all different aspects of the organisation, including financial performance, operational and internal processes, sales and marketing, customer satisfaction and more. Good KPIs should be unique to every business, as every business has different objectives. To meet this need, the book provides tools and templates that leaders can use to develop unique KPIs that best suit their particular organisation or industry.

  • Learn to design KPIs that are unique to your business and fit closely to your strategic objectives
  • Determine which KPI questions you should be asking to achieve the right insights for your business
  • Learn the specific KPIs that are appropriate for different business circumstances
  • Turn KPIs into deep insights by mastering related reporting and communications practices

KPIs are a crucial part of every manager's toolkit, and are essential for helping to monitor the execution of business strategies and measure results.Key Performance Indicators For Dummies moves beyond a basic discussion of what KPIs are, and why they are needed to provide a complete guide for learning to design and use specific KPIs to drive organisational performance.

Introduction 1(4)
About This Book
2(1)
Foolish Assumptions
3(1)
Icons Used in This Book
3(1)
Beyond the Book
3(1)
Where to Go from Here
4(1)
Part 1: Getting Started with Key Performance Indicators 5(58)
Chapter 1 Introducing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
7(12)
Why Every Company Needs KPIs
8(3)
The Fishing Analogy
8(1)
The Datafication of our World
9(1)
KPIs as vital decision support tools
10(1)
Making KPIs Work in Your Business
11(3)
Create a KPI culture
12(1)
Decide on the right KPI framework
12(1)
Develop the right KPIs
13(1)
Analyse and report
14(1)
Assessing Your Financial KPIs
14(2)
Revenue and profit
14(1)
Liquidity and cash flow
15(1)
Shareholder value
15(1)
Financial efficiency
15(1)
Assessing Your Customer KPIs
16(1)
Customer satisfaction and loyalty
16(1)
Market share
16(1)
Assessing Your Operational KPIs
16(2)
Project performance
17(1)
Efficiency and quality
17(1)
IT
17(1)
Assessing Your Employee KPIs
18(1)
Employee engagement
18(1)
Talent retention
18(1)
Chapter 2 Types, Targets and KPI Mistakes
19(10)
Understanding that KPIs can be Strategic or Operational
19(3)
The pear tree analogy
20(1)
Why we can measure everything and how to do it
21(1)
Creating the Right Set of KPIs
22(2)
What is a good number of KPIs?
23(1)
Tracking the tangible and intangible
23(1)
The leaders and the laggers
23(1)
Setting the Right Targets for Your KPIs
24(2)
KPIs vs. targets
25(1)
Making targets specific
25(1)
Making targets realistic and achievable
26(1)
Knowing Where People Go Wrong with KPIs
26(3)
Measuring everything that walks and moves
27(1)
Collecting the same measures as everyone else
27(1)
Not choosing the relevant KPIs
28(1)
Chapter 3 Creating a Culture of Fact-Based Decision-Making
29(14)
Implementing the Key Components of Fact-Based Management
30(7)
Establishing senior management buy-in
30(2)
Introducing KPIs for the right reasons
32(1)
Establishing the processes and culture
33(4)
Creating Improvement and Performance Preview Meetings
37(6)
Introducing strategy revision meetings
37(1)
Establishing strategic performance preview meetings
38(1)
Putting in place operational performance improvement meetings
39(1)
Aligning personal performance discussions
39(4)
Chapter 4 Organising Your KPIs
43(20)
Understanding the Need for KPI Frameworks
43(3)
Weighing the options
43(1)
Selecting the right framework
44(2)
Introducing the Balanced Scorecard
46(14)
Getting a grasp of the four BSC perspectives
47(1)
Tackling the financial perspective
48(2)
Making sure you're delivering to your customers
50(1)
Looking at your internal processes
51(3)
Improving and driving future value
54(1)
Putting it on paper and mapping it out
55(5)
Looking at Alternative KPI Frameworks
60(5)
Using Quality or Lean Frameworks
60(2)
Using Project Management Frameworks
62(1)
The Risky Side of Business
62(1)
Part II: Implementing and Using KPIs Effectively 63(58)
Chapter 5 Developing a KPI
65(26)
The Question is The Answer: Developing Key Performance Questions (KPQs)
66(4)
Harnessing the power of questions
66(1)
Creating good key performance questions (KPQs)
67(3)
Deciding on the Right KPIs
70(5)
Step 1: Linking KPIs to strategic objectives
70(1)
Step 2: Identifying the unanswered questions
70(1)
Step 3: Isolating the decisions to take
71(1)
Step 4: Checking for existing data and methods
71(1)
Step 5: Collecting meaningful data in time
71(1)
Step 6: Assessing the usefulness to answering the question
72(1)
Step 7: Assessing the usefulness to decision-making
72(1)
Step 8: Creating awareness of cheating
73(1)
Step 9: Are the costs and effort justified?
73(1)
Step 10: Collecting the data
73(1)
Making it work: the ten-step template in action
74(1)
Deciding on How to Collect the Data
75(6)
Identifying types of data
76(1)
Applying quantitative methods
76(1)
Understanding qualitative methods
77(3)
Combining data to improve insights
80(1)
The big data challenge
81(1)
Finalising Your KPIs: Applying the KPI Design Template
81(10)
The basics
82(1)
Completing your KPI Template
83(3)
How good is the indicator?
86(5)
Chapter 6 Use it or Lose it: Turning KPIs into Insights
91(14)
Testing Cause and Effect Relationships
92(4)
Why strategies are just assumptions
93(1)
Testing your assumptions
94(1)
Testing Business Assumptions at Google, Inc.
95(1)
Learning from Business Experiments
96(1)
Removing Bias through Business Experiments
97(3)
Business Intelligence and Analytics
100(5)
Datafication
100(2)
Analytics
102(3)
Chapter 7 Spreading the Word: Reporting and Communicating KPIs Effectively
105(16)
Getting the Attention of the Decision Maker
106(4)
The importance of communicating
106(1)
Keeping in mind the target audience
107(1)
Using best practice performance reports
108(1)
Publishing analogy
108(1)
Headline, photo and narrative
109(1)
Visualising KPIs: Using Graphs and Charts
110(6)
Bar graph
111(1)
Line graph
112(1)
Pie chart
113(1)
Scatter chart
113(1)
Bullet graph
114(1)
Speedometer dials or gauges
115(1)
Using innovative ways to visualise data
115(1)
Developing Management Dashboards
116(7)
Seven dashboard design tips
117(1)
Making use of software tools
118(3)
Part III: Developing Financial 1CP1s 121(42)
Chapter 8 The Holy Grail of Business: Revenue and Profit KPIs
123(12)
The Bottom Line - Gauging Profit
123(6)
Profit means prizes
125(1)
Understanding the different perspectives on profit
125(2)
Why profit only matters in context
127(1)
Measuring profit in practice
128(1)
Measuring Profit Margins
129(3)
Why margins are so vital
129(1)
Knowing the different profit margins
130(1)
Measuring profit margins in practice
131(1)
The Top-Line: Measuring Revenue Growth
132(3)
When revenue isn't everything
133(1)
Why you should track revenue over time
133(1)
Measuring revenue in practice
133(2)
Chapter 9 The Ones You Can't Take Your Eyes Off: Liquidity and Cash Flow KPIs
135(10)
Tracking Your Cash
135(5)
Why cash is king
136(1)
What cash flow tells you about your business
137(1)
Measuring cash flow in practice
137(3)
Looking Out for Liquidity
140(5)
The often unseen danger
141(1)
Measuring liquidity in practice
141(4)
Chapter 10 Reporting to the Masters: Shareholder and Value-Added KPIs
145(8)
The Ultimate Value Metric: EVA
145(3)
Why profitable companies might not create value
146(1)
Understanding opportunity cost
146(1)
Measuring opportunity cost in practice
147(1)
Keeping an Eye on Your Share Price
148(2)
It's all relative: comparing businesses
149(1)
Measuring P/E ratio in practice
149(1)
Tracking Total Shareholder Return (TSR)
150(3)
Competition is stiff on the stock market
150(1)
Measuring TSR in practice
151(2)
Chapter 11 Measuring Your Financial Efficiency
153(10)
Assessing the Return on Investment
153(3)
Every investment must yield a return
154(1)
Measuring ROI in practice
155(1)
Measuring the Return on Capital Employed
156(2)
Understanding ROCE
157(1)
Measuring ROCE in practice
157(1)
Gauging Return on Equity (ROE)
158(2)
Why should you measure ROE
159(1)
Measuring ROE in practice
159(1)
Understanding Return on Assets (ROA)
160(5)
Why does ROA matter to companies?
161(1)
Measuring ROA in practice
161(2)
Part IV: Developing Customer, Sales and Marketing KPIs 163(34)
Chapter 12 The Customer is Always Right Measuring Your Customer Success
165(18)
Asking if Your Customers Would Recommend You (NPS)
165(4)
How NPS drives loyalty and profitability
166(1)
Understanding the NPS formula
167(1)
Measuring NPS in practice
168(1)
Measuring How Satisfied Your Customers Are (Satisfaction Index)
169(4)
Identifying what makes your customers happy
170(1)
Creating your unique index
171(1)
Measuring CSI in practice
171(2)
Tracking How Likely Your Customers are To Leave (Retention/Churn)
173(3)
Churn and retention matters!
173(1)
Measuring it in practice
174(2)
Gauging Whether All Customers are Equal (Profitability)
176(2)
Understanding where the profits are made
176(1)
Tracking customer profitability
176(1)
Measuring it in practice
177(1)
Calculating Your Customers' Value (Life-Time Value)
178(2)
The ultimate customer KPI!
178(1)
Measuring it in practice
179(1)
Measuring Whether Your Customers are Truly Engaged
180(3)
Understanding the different levels of engagement
181(1)
Measuring engagement in practice
182(1)
Chapter 13 Measuring the Market and Your Place in It
183(14)
Painting a Picture of Your Market (Market Growth Rate)
183(4)
Understanding the health of your market
184(1)
Options for measuring market growth rate
185(1)
Measuring market growth rate in practice
186(1)
Understanding Your Place in the Market (Market Share)
187(3)
Why market share matters
187(2)
Getting a good picture of your market can be tough
189(1)
Measuring relative market share in practice
190(1)
Gauging Your Market Success (Customer Acquisition KPIs)
190(4)
Knowing the cost of finding new customers
191(1)
Options for gauging customer conversion
191(1)
Measuring cost per lead in practice
192(2)
Charting the Power of Your Brand
194(5)
What brand equity means for your business
194(1)
Finding your unique formula
195(1)
Measuring brand equity in practice
195(2)
Part V: Developing Operational and Internal Process KPIs 197(40)
Chapter 14 Measuring Project Performance
199(8)
Why Project Performance Matters
199(1)
Introducing the Three Components of Project Performance
200(7)
Tracking whether your projects are on time (Project Schedule Variance)
201(1)
Measuring whether your projects are on budget (Project Cost Variance)
201(1)
Checking whether your projects are delivering the right value (Earned Value)
202(1)
Measuring the KPIs in practice
202(5)
Chapter 15 Measuring Internal Efficiency and Quality
207(20)
Assessing Quality, Lean and Six Sigma KPIs
207(6)
Why Lean matters
208(1)
What does Six Sigma really mean?
209(1)
Finding your ways to track quality
210(1)
Measuring the KPIs in practice
211(2)
Calculating Your Internal Productivity
213(9)
Looking at waste levels
213(3)
Monitoring rework levels
216(2)
Scrutinizing order fulfilment
218(1)
Dissecting delivery
219(2)
Investigating inventory
221(1)
Asking Yourself Whether You're Future Proof
222(5)
Your innovation pipeline
223(4)
Chapter 16 Measuring IT Performance
227(10)
Why IT Matters More Than Ever
227(12)
Measuring IT service delivery
228(5)
Measuring IT project performance
233(4)
Part VI: Measuring Your Most Important Assets: Developing HR and People KPIs 237(26)
Chapter 17 Measuring People Performance
239(14)
How Satisfied and Engaged are Your People?
240(4)
Satisfaction and engagement matters
240(1)
Measuring satisfaction and engagement in practice
241(3)
Would your Employees Recommend Your Business?
244(3)
Measuring the trends
244(1)
Measuring staff advocacy in practice
245(2)
Looking All Around - 360 Degree Feedback
247(3)
Understanding the need for a full picture
247(1)
Measuring 360-degree feedback in practice
248(2)
How Much Value Are Employees Generating?
250(3)
Measuring the value your employees generate in practice
251(2)
Chapter 18 Measuring Human Resources Performance
253(10)
Charting How Well You're Recruiting
253(6)
Finding and keeping talent
254(1)
Moving beyond the trivial
255(1)
Measuring recruitment effectiveness in practice
255(4)
Analysing How Well You're Training
259(6)
The pitfalls and challenges of measuring training
259(1)
Measuring it in practice
260(3)
Part VII: The Part of Tens 263(18)
Chapter 19 Ten Tips for Developing Effective KPIs
265(4)
Map Your Strategy
265(1)
Identify the Questions You Need to Answer
265(1)
Define Your Data Needs
266(1)
Evaluate All Existing Data
266(1)
Find the Right Measurement Methodology
266(1)
Assign Ownership
267(1)
Identify the Right Measurement Frequency
267(1)
Ensure Costs and Efforts are Justified
267(1)
Find the Right Supporting Data
268(1)
Finding the Right Picture to Communicate your KPI
268(1)
Chapter 20 The Ten Biggest KPI Mistakes to Avoid
269(6)
Measure Everything That is Easy to Measure
269(1)
Measure Everything Everyone Else is Measuring
270(1)
Not Linking KPIs to Strategy
270(1)
Not Separating Strategic KPIs from Other Data
270(1)
Hardwiring KPIs to Incentives
271(1)
Not Involving Executives in the KPI Selection
271(1)
Not Analysing Your KPIs to Extract Insights
272(1)
Not Challenging Your KPIs
272(1)
Not Updating Your KPIs
272(1)
Not Acting on Your KPIs
273(2)
Chapter 21 The Top Ten KPIs to Use
275(6)
Revenue Growth Rate
275(1)
Net Profit Margin
275(1)
Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC)
276(1)
Net Promoter Score
276(1)
Customer Engagement
277(1)
Customer Profitability
277(1)
Relative Market Share
278(1)
Capacity Utilisation Rate (CUR)
278(1)
Staff Advocacy Score
278(1)
Sustainability Index
278(3)
Index 281
Bernard Marr is a bestselling author on organisational performance and business success. He regularly advises leading companies, organisations and governments across the globe, and is acknowledged by the CEO Journal as one of todays leading business brains. He has advised the Bank of England, Barclays, BP, Fujitsu, HSBC, Mars and others.