KPIs IN BUSINESS:
KPI stands
for Key Performance Indicator which means a quantifiable measure of performance
over time for a specific objective. KPIs are not Business metrics.
KPIs are
the key target you should track to make the most to make the impact on your
strategic business outcomes. Therefore, KPIs support your business strategies
to reach your business goals outcomes
and help your team to focus on what is important. Picture this; A business
is aiming at acquiring new customers of older age for their new products. Therefore,
a business conducts a promotion discount to each product purchased by customer
of older age. There, KPI is customer of older age.
Are the
KPIs important ? Yes.
You need
KPIs in your business to support team on achieving the core business goals
within time and budget. Some of benefits KPIs can offer your business;
Keep
your team aligned
When
measuring any project success in your business; KPIs keep team moving in one
direction but when you don’t have KPIs, everyone in a team will have his or her
own way of measuring the performance.
Making
adjustments easily
Once you
have KPIs in your business, you can easily see successes and failures too; so
you can put much efforts on what is working and less efforts on what is not
working. For example, may be you have entered the world of digital marketing
for the first time and want to see if is helpful in your business or not. You
decide to use website and social medias platforms. You choose KPI to be traffics.
After a certain time you discover that in website there is more traffic than
social media. Hence increase efforts on website and release efforts on social
media platforms.
How can you
define KPIs ?
Many people
fail to define KPIs clearly simply because they relate to the business metrics.
But difference between KPIs and metrics is that; metrics focus on daily
business activities while KPIs focus on critical or core business goals. You
need these steps when defining KPIs:
· -What
is your desired outcome ?
· -Why
does this outcome matter ?
· -How
are you going to measure progress ?
· -How
can you influence the outcome ?
· -Who
is responsible for the business outcome ?
· -How
will you know you have achieved your outcome ?
· -How
often will you review progress towards the outcome ?
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