{"id":2658,"date":"2020-01-17T12:03:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.bdsaccountants.co.nz\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2020-01-17T14:21:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T02:21:45","slug":"establishing-the-key-performance-indicators-in-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bdsaccountants.co.nz\/resources\/establishing-the-key-performance-indicators-in-your-business","title":{"rendered":"Establishing the Key Performance Indicators in Your Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Introduction<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A key performance indicator (KPI) is a measure designed to track critical success factors in a business. KPIs provide a statistical measure of how well an organisation is doing. To be effective, KPIs should be few in number and focus on vital areas in the business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">KPIs differ by industry, business and even departments within a business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For example, a retail business may have as one of its KPIs the percentage of its income that comes from return customers, a school may focus on its KPIs on graduation rates of students, and a Customer Service Department may have as one of its KPIs the percentage of customer calls answered in the first minute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Whichever KPIs are selected, they must reflect the business goals, they must be key to its success, and they must be quantifiable (measurable).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If a KPI is going to be of any value, there must be a way to accurately define and measure it. \u2018Generate more repeat customers\u2019 is useless as a KPI without some way to distinguish between new and repeat business. \u2018Be the most popular company\u2019 won\u2019t work as a KPI without some accurate method of establishing the company\u2019s popularity and comparing it to others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You also need to set targets for each KPI. For example, a manufacturing company\u2019s goal might be to reduce the cost of rework (fixing, repairing or even redoing an aspect of product) by 50%. After the KPI has been properly defined, and a way to accurately measure it has been set up, the KPI becomes a clear target that everyone\u2019s attention is focused on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Once you have your KPIs defined, ones that reflect your organisation\u2019s goals, what do you do with them? You can issue KPIs as a performance management tool, but also as a carrot. Post the KPIs everywhere, in the lunch room, on the company\u2019s intranet, even emailed to key team members. Visibility of performance helps to create accountability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Show the target for each KPI and the progress towards that target. Some organisations even refer to the KPI summary or dashboard as the Company Scorecard.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Generic KPIs for SME business<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The following is a checklist of generic KPIs that can apply to a wide range of businesses:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Average employee tenure<\/li>\n<li>Training expenditure as % of revenue<\/li>\n<li>Average employee turnover, 3 year rolling average<\/li>\n<li>Average talent turnover, 3 year rolling average<\/li>\n<li>Average absenteeism per employee, in days<\/li>\n<li>Job satisfaction index, based on survey<\/li>\n<li>% of employees who would recommend the company as an employer<\/li>\n<li>Employee productivity<\/li>\n<li>Workplace accidents as a % of total number of employees<\/li>\n<li>Sales per fulltime equivalent employee<\/li>\n<li>% of wages to sales<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Customer service KPIs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Customer satisfaction index<\/li>\n<li>% of revenue that comes from top 20% of customers<\/li>\n<li>Average customer spend per transaction<\/li>\n<li>Average customer spend per year<\/li>\n<li>Customer transaction frequency<\/li>\n<li>Average lifetime value of a customer<\/li>\n<li>Customer contribution to gross profit<\/li>\n<li>Complaint rate<\/li>\n<li>Customer attrition rate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Sales and marketing KPIs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Average number of accounts per account manager<\/li>\n<li>Cold calls converted to new customers<\/li>\n<li>Customer door count<\/li>\n<li>Number of transactions as % of door count<\/li>\n<li>Conversion rate from prospects to sales<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Product KPIs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Contribution to gross profit by individual product lines<\/li>\n<li>Product obsolescence rate<\/li>\n<li>Product exceeding \u2018use by date\u2019 ratio<\/li>\n<li>Product return rate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Risk KPIs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Litigation threats to the company<\/li>\n<li>Litigation claims on the company<\/li>\n<li>Complaints from the Commerce Commission, local councils, other Government departments, or consumer watchdogs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Financial KPIs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Stock turn<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Gross profit margin %<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Expense analysis as % of sales<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Net profit margin %<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Price to earning ratio<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Return on total asset value<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Debt to equity ratio<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Current assets ratio<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Net transferable assets backing<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Debtor days<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Work in progress days<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Creditor days<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction A key performance indicator (KPI) is a measure designed to track critical success factors in a business. 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