Big, Bad Business Metrics

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are like gremlins. When you tend to your business metrics – shine daylight on them, so to speak—they're your best friends and allies. When you ignore them, when they don't evolve with your business, well ... you saw what happened in the movie.

In the presentation below, we share with you how to keep your business metrics friendly, so that they can be big and bad in the most endearing sense of the word.

Fine-Tuning Your Business Metrics As time goes by, and your company grows, your KPIs of choice must change and improve as well. On a regular basis, ask yourself questions to facilitate that change: How much have we grown? Are we profitable? How much cash are we generating? Where are the lifts and fluctuations from quarter to quarter? Business Metrics Know how best to tame and harness your business metrics to your advantage, and do that periodically. As a result, you'll enable the kinds of strategic and predictive insights that your bosses will love. When you pass down those benefits to your customers, that love will grow exponentially. Keep shining daylight on those KPIs, and they'll forever be your friends. When you are feeling on track with these 11 KPIs, here are more business metrics that will continue to evolve with your growing business.