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Business Key Performance Indicators

Duration: 2 days
Available as: in-company and public course
Target audience: middle level managers
Public course:

Who Should Attend?

Members of Customer Care, Controlling or other departments, responsible for valuation calculating efficiency of business processes. Middle level management willing to understand various aspects of KPIs. Support team members monitoring quality of service in various units of the Company.


Course Scope

  1. KPI definition & overview.
    • Role of KPI in organization.
    • Simple KPI.
    • One vs two- side KPIs.
    • Multi-component KPIs.
    • Aggregated KPIs.
    • KPI frequencies.
  2. Standard KPIs and their variations.
    • Customer care KPIs (service level).
    • IT Department KPIs (e.g. system availability).
    • Technical Department KPIs (Network failure rate).
    • Financial KPI (bad debts, DSO).
    • Marketing KPI (e.g. churn, market penetration).
    • Sales KPI (e.g. Sales Acquisition Cost).
  3. KPI managed organization.
    • KPI delegation on lower organizational level.
    • Processes oriented for KPI measurement.
    • System requirement for KPI management.
    • Relation between KPI and bonuses.
    • SLA (Service Level Agreement) between units.
  4. Reporting of KPI.
    • Data availability and data collection.
    • Communication aspects with operational units.
    • Generating of reports.
    • Approximate vs. exact KPIs.
    • Change requests processing and management.
    • Single vs. multiple data sources.
    • Reporting unit position in organization.
    • Single employ KPI reporting.
    • Daily, weekly and monthly KPI.
    • KPI dashboard.
  5. Setting the KPI =  Proper definition of KPI.
    • Collection of historical data.
    • Process modelling and setting.
    • Common keys identification.
    • Exceptions handling.
  6. Benchmarks.
    • Setting up proper expected values.
    • Desired values vs. available values of KPI.
    • Comparison between other companies.
    • Market knowledge about expected values of KPI.
    • Telco-groups KPI.
  7. Other aspects.
    • Combined and aggregated KPI – positive and negative aspects.
    • KPI reporting vs. system flexibility.
    • Internal fraud avoidance.
    • Improper usage of KPIs.

Course Objectives

To introduce the philosophy and practice of the management based on Key Performance Indicators. Common Telco KPI are described, and practical aspects of its setting, monitoring and modifications are discussed. Case studies of proper KPI implementation are presented.


Pre-requisites

No specific prerequisites are required, but experience in one of the following areas would be helpful:

  • Practice in large business units reporting.
  • Support function to operations.
  • Processes design and implementation.
  • Budgeting, controlling etc.

Training Structure

Two days training divided into logical sessions.


Methodology

Instructor led training.