About Templates

Pre-packaged performance management and measurement solutions can add great value for organizations aiming to implement such tools and achieve a satisfactory balance in terms of the effort required for building the tools and the customization possibilities. This is confirmed by a 2010 Aberdeen Study, according to which:

Pre-built dashboard solutions can be deployed faster, requiring only 60% of the time needed in the case of custom dashboard solutions;

The time needed to modify a pre-built dashboard is in average only half from the time needed to bring changes to a custom developed dashboard solution;

Pre-built dashboard solutions allow customization and tailoring according with the organization’s own needs.

Based on the extensive experience of the smartKPIs.com team in working with KPIs and implementing performance management and measurement solutions, a suite of pre-populated templates has been developed to assist organizations in their performance management initiatives.

Types of templates available

Performance Scorecards - developed to be used at both organizational level, for entities in a variety of industries, and departmental level, for various functional areas. The template is pre-populated with KPIs, objectives and other sample data, grouped by the four traditional Balanced Scorecard Perspectives.

Performance Dashboards – for use at strategic or operational level, with the purpose of linking the tactical actions with performance results. Also available for a number of industries and functional areas, smartKPIs.com Performance Dashboard templates are pre-populated with tens of KPIs relevant for that industry or department.

Performance Management System Toolkits – a suite of templates, such as Desired State of Evolution, Strategy Map, Performance Scorecard, Performance Dashboard, Portfolio of Initiatives etc., used to develop a sound and comprehensive performance management system, at strategic or operational level.

KPIs for Dashboards and Scorecards – pairs of reports containing the complete collection of KPIs that populate the Performance Dashboard and the Performance Scorecard for a particular industry or functional area. Each KPI is documented based on the best practice KPI documentation template proprietory to smartKPIs.com and available in the smartKPIs Premium section of the website.

Benefits

All templates are ready-to-use solutions, pre-populated with KPIs and other sample data;

All templates come in formats that enable optimal data visualization;

An important feature of the smartKPIs.com pre-build performance management templates is their highly customizable character. All templates are accompanied by an Administrator Guide, making template customization for the specific needs of the organization an easy process;

Templates’ design was developed based on specifications prepared by Aurel Brudan, smartKPIs.com's Performance Architect and a leading expert in organic performance management.