Importance and implementation of key success metrics (CSFs, KRIs, KPIs) in Analytics.
In order to compete, more businesses are finding it vital to monitor the various business processes so that performance can be measured and improved upon. Acronyms like Critical success Factors (CSFs), Key result indicators (KRIs), and key performance indicators (KPIs) are increasingly being used in the business world (parmenter, 2015).
- CSFs are the factors that suggests what a business needs to do well in order to succeed.
- KRIs measure goals – the results of various business actions that are vital to meet larger corporate goals. These reveal what has happened, but it does not reveal why it happened. The several actions required for a business action to succeed is measured using KPIs (parmenter, 2015) (kpikarta, 2021).
- KPIs are metrics that measure things – actions and activities that are aligned with the various goals.
Here’s an example of how CSF, KRI and KPI can be used in a business, in this case to a sports club.
- CSFs: an important CSF would be to ‘Hire people – players, coaches, support staff – with the right skill set’.
- KRIs: One KRI for the sports club would be the ‘number of wins’ in their matches. It will reveal if the team is winning more matches.
- KPIs: This will measure the individual actions of the players, such as are they blocking more shots, passing more, is their stamina improving, and so on.
CSFs are generally universal in the business world, and include things like capturing market sharing, improving customer satisfaction, improving quality (bernardmarr, 2021). KPIs will most likely differ among companies and are more linked to a company’s strategic goals. KPIs should ideally be used to track unique actions or activities whereas KRIs should be used to track the aggregate results of several actions (kpikarta, 2021).
References
- Bernardmarr (2021, July 2). What is the Difference between Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Critical Success Factors (CSFs)? https://bernardmarr.com/what-is-the-difference-between-key-performance-indicators-kpis-and-critical-success-factors-csfs/
- Kpikarta (2021, March 16). The Difference Between KPIs and KRIs and Why it Matters. http://www.kpikarta.com/blog-1/2021/3/16/the-difference-between-kpis-and-kris-and-why-it-matters
- Parmenter, D. (2015). Key Performance Indicators: Developing, Implementing, and using winning KPIs. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
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