Optimizing Business Performance: Evaluating Key Performance Indicators for Success
The idea that there are only 11 Key Performance Indicators that any organisation needs to operate effectively is one put forward by Forbes Magazine in a 2023 article. This is a brave statement given the wide range of products and services offered to widely differing customers and markets by companies with different operating models.
In this course, we test that claim, assessing each of the 11 KPIs put forward by Forbes Magazine for their effectiveness and applicability. We analyse the performance measures in the categories of operational metrics, market and customer metrics, employee metrics and financial metrics, and we introduce other performance measures which businesses find useful.
At the same time, we need to avoid the danger of having too many KPIs. Then the workload of collection and analysis becomes too heavy, and we end up with too much information to make effective decisions.
A relatively small selection of KPIs that work for your business is the optimal outcome. In this course, we seek to identify the most useful KPIs for all types of business.
Business author and consultant, specialising in performance measurement and improvement
I am a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in the UK and work as an author of business courses and a process improvement consultant. I have over 30 years' experience and live near Stirling in Scotland, with my wife, daughter and Cocker Spaniel. I aim to make my courses accessible and understandable. My courses focus on business topics including KPIs, performance measurement, approaches to business improvement, Agile and Lean. I hope you enjoy my courses.
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