Leading KPIs come before business results
Share and sales move over several cycles. Leading KPIs show within one cycle whether an Omnichannel change is working.
Leadership teams rightly ask what an Omnichannel investment returns in share, sales or cost. Those results take several planning cycles to show, and many other factors move them at the same time. Waiting for them before judging an initiative means decisions are made a year late.
What a leading KPI is
A leading KPI measures a change in behavior that the business result depends on, such as how consistently priority customers are reached or how quickly they receive follow-up. It moves within weeks, while share and sales take several cycles.
What good leading KPIs have in common
Good leading KPIs are few in number, measurable from data the organization already trusts, owned by a named person and agreed with leadership before the change begins. A long list of indicators that nobody reviews is worse than three that are discussed every month.
Why the link to business results matters
Leading KPIs earn their place only if they are connected to the business results leadership cares about. Over later cycles that connection should be tested, so leadership can see whether the early signals were the right ones.
A note on the case studies
The KPIs shown on each case study on this site are indicative targets agreed with the client, not reported results. Results stay with the client, and client leaders can speak to them as references with their agreement.
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