KPI - Key Performance Indicators

Key performance indicators are used in four main areas:

  • Revenue improvement
  • Cost reduction
  • Process cycle-time improvement
  • Increased customer satisfaction

The following are KPI examples that are used in real-life scenarios.
Using these KPIs will benefit in reducing overheads, errors, rework, delays and cost


Business Process - Key Performance Indicators

  • KPI: Percentage of processes where completion falls within +/- 5% of the estimated completion
  • KPI: Average process overdue time
  • KPI: Percentage of overdue processes
  • KPI: Average process age
  • KPI: Percentage of processes where the actual number assigned resources is less than planned number of assigned resources
  • KPI: Sum of costs of “killed” / stopped active processes
  • KPI: Average time to complete task
  • KPI: Sum of deviation of time (e.g. in days) against planned schedule of all active projects
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Service Level Agreement (SLA) - Key Performance Indicators

  • KPI: Percentage of service requests resolved within an agreed-upon/acceptable period of time
  • KPI: Cost of service delivery as defined in Service Level Agreement (SLA) based on a set period such as month or quarter
  • KPI: Percentage of outage (unavailability) due to implementation of planned changes, relative to the service hours
  • KPI: Average time (e.g. in hours) between the occurrence of an incident and its resolution
  • KPI: Downtime - the percentage of the time service is available
  • KPI: Availability - the total service time = the mean time between failure (MTBF) and the mean time to repair (MTTR)
  • KPI: Number of outstanding actions against last SLA review
  • KPI: The deviation of the planned budget (cost) is the difference in costs between the planned baseline against the actual budget of the Service Level Agreement (SLA)
  • KPI: Percentage of correspondence replied to on time
  • KPI: Percentage of incoming service requests of customers have to be completely answered within x amount of time
  • KPI: Number of complaints received within the measurement period
  • KPI: Percentage of customer issues that were solved by the first phone call
  • KPI: Number of operator activities per call – maximum possible, minimum possible, and average. (E.g. take call, log call, attempt dispatch, retry dispatch, escalate dispatch, reassign dispatch, etc.)
  • KPI: The number of answered phone call per hour
  • KPI: Total Calling Time per Day or week.
  • KPI: Average queue time of incoming phone calls
  • KPI: Cost per minute of handle time
  • KPI: Number of un-responded emails
  • KPI: Average after call work time (work done after call has been concluded)
  • KPI: Costs of operating a call centre / service desk, usually for a specific period such as month or quarter
  • KPI: Average number of calls / service requests per employee of call center / service desk within measurement period
  • KPI: Number of complaints received within the measurement period

Service Quality - Key Performance Indicators

  • KPI: Cycle time from request to delivery
  • KPI: Call length - the time to answer a call
  • KPI: Volume of calls handled - per call centre staff
  • KPI: Number of escalations how many bad
  • KPI: Number of reminders - how many at risk
  • KPI: Number of alerts - overall summary
  • KPI: Customer ratings of service - customer satisfaction
  • KPI: Number of customer complaints - problems
  • KPI: Number of late tasks - late

Efficiency - Key Performance Indicators

  • KPI: Cycle time from request to delivery
  • KPI: Average cycle time from request to delivery
  • KPI: Call length
  • KPI: Volume of tasks per staff
  • KPI: Number of staff involved
  • KPI: Number of reminders
  • KPI: Number of alerts
  • KPI: Customer ratings of service
  • KPI: Number of customer complaints
  • KPI: Number of process errors
  • KPI: Number of human errors
  • KPI: Time allocated for administration, management, training

Compliance - Key Performance Indicators

  • KPI: Average time lag between identification of external compliance issues and resolution
  • KPI: Frequency (in days) of compliance reviews

Budget - Key Performance Indicators

  • KPI: Sum of deviation in money of planned budget of projects

Index used in Key Performance Indicators

Satisfied: The user is fully productive. This represents the time value (T seconds) below which users are not impeded by application response time.
Tolerating: The user notices performance lagging within responses greater than T, but continues the process.
Frustrated: Performance with a response time greater than F seconds is unacceptable, and users may abandon the process.

 

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