Keep the KPI dictionary
Keep every indicator of the company in one place with its definition, its formula and its owner, without duplicates and up to date.
The task in figures
- Gives you back
- 0.3 h a monthper team; today it takes 0.7 to 1.5 h a month
- Elmira today
- Helps
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Who does it today
- Lead
- Version
- Elmira Manager
What hurts today.
The same indicator shows up under three names, each with its own formula.
The dictionary spreadsheet is out of date the next month.
Nobody dares retire an indicator, so they keep being measured out of habit.
Over the years a company piles up hundreds of indicators: some measure the same thing under another name, others nobody uses anymore, and for many nobody remembers the formula. The dictionary puts them in order: it lists each indicator, merges the duplicates, writes their definitions and retires the ones left over. It is almost always a spreadsheet that someone in continuous improvement updates when they can, and that is out of date the next month.
Done today with
- Expert
- Spreadsheet
- Email and chat
Each step, today and with Elmira.
In Obeyaka the dictionary is not kept apart: the catalog’s indicators come with their definition in three languages, the app shows the similar ones before a new one is created, and Elmira lists on WhatsApp what each team measures.
| Step | Today | With Elmira |
|---|---|---|
| List each team’s indicators | Spreadsheet, Email and chat30 min – 1.5 h | |
| Merge the ones that measure the same thing | Expert, Spreadsheet30 min – 1 h | Obeyaka (web) |
| Write each one’s definition and formula | Expert, Spreadsheet30 min – 1 h | Obeyaka (web) |
| Retire the ones nobody uses | Expert, Spreadsheet15 min – 30 min | Still by hand |
| Publish it for everyone to look up | Spreadsheet, Email and chat15 min – 30 min | Automatic |
The conversation
No example conversation: the Obeyaka web app does it, or it comes later.
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More cases of indicators and measurement
- Answer how an indicator is doingEvery question interrupts whatever the analyst was doing.
- Collect indicator dataThe figure arrives late, or never, and the meeting starts without it.
- Flag deviations in timeWhen things get busy nobody checks, and the deviation shows up at the monthly meeting.