Every KPI is green. Revenue is flat.

When the dashboard reports success and the P&L doesn't, the problem is rarely effort: it is usually the way the measures were chosen.

By Steve 5 min read
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A monthly pack with twelve metrics, ten of them green, sitting alongside a revenue line that hasn’t moved in four quarters, is one of the more common patterns in management reporting. It is also one of the more uncomfortable, because nobody in the room is lying and nobody is idle. Calls were made. Tickets were closed. Utilisation held. The measures were hit. The business did not grow. The instinct is to question the effort behind the numbers. That is usually the wrong place to look. When a full dashboard sits…

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