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What are the Key Performance Indicators for Robert Green?

 There are lots of jokes making the rounds about the terrible goalkeeping error by Robert Green in the match against the USA earlier this week.  The one I like most goes as follows:  Following the mistake he made in the USA game Robert Green spent today in goal practising saving shots.  He saved over 4,000 shots, from a player, without letting one into the net.  As a result of this success he, and Emile Heskey, will rejoin the rest of the team practise tomorrow.

Whilst it is a good joke it also made me think about what Key performance indicators we should be using.  For example for Green, should we be using number of shots saved or number of goals conceded as his key performance indicator.  Using the shots saved he may have done well especially as he made one good save.

For Heskey it may be a little more difficult as he was considered as having a good game on Saturday.  Using goals scored as his KPI he has a lot of improvement to make.  If, on the other hand, we use shots on goal as the key performance indicator he would score quite highly.  After all he only had a few chances.  His best one, when put through, was saved by the goalkeeper but at least it was accurate.  Using passing success as his Key performance indicator he will have done really well.  But after all he has been picked as a goal scorer.

What all this nonsense does show you, however, is that it is important to develop the most appropriate key performance indicators for your organisations.

We at QlikPower work closely with our customers to produce Key performance indicators appropriate to their business.

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