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Guidance Notes
Teams and Organisations should have a clear set of enduring measures (KPIs) that are used to measure their performance and success.
These measures should:
- Be used by the Team or Organisation and its stakeholders as the primary measures of success for the Team or Organisation.
- Be primarily based on the value delivered to the Team’s or Organisation’s customers over the cost to do so.
- Be a small and focused set of measures to ensure clarity of what’s important.
- Account for both money and headcount when looking at costs.
- Include revenue (and therefore profit) for commercial Organisations, noting that this is a trailing indicator to Customer Value which should maintain primacy.
- Be enduring – they are tied to the Purpose of the Organisation and not to its Objectives.
- Be aligned to and support the Measures of Success of any parent Organisation
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Further Reading
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