What Is the Data Tool?

Use the Data tool to create and manage your individual and team's key performance indicators (KPIs). Each KPI provides visibility to the goals essential to the team's success. During most meetings, your team reviews its Scorecards to see if any KPIs need to be discussed.

For example, if a KPI has been off target for three or more consecutive weeks, the team should discuss possible causes and ways to get things back on track.

KPIs are created for a specific time interval on one of the following Scorecards:

• Weekly
• Trailing 4-Week and Trailing 13-Week (T4W & T13W)
• Monthly
• Quarterly
• Annual

Learn how to get started with the Data tool from the video below.

How Data Supports the Company

The Data tool supports your organization by empowering teams to turn their goals into quantifiable KPIs, ensuring everything is on track and making it easy to discuss any potential issues.

The Data tool can capture performance at five levels:

1. Organization-wide — KPIs tied to the organization’s goals and Vision.
2. Leadership team — Three to five of each department’s most important KPIs.
3. Department — Each team’s most important KPIs.
4. Teams — Each team member’s most important KPIs.
5. Individuals — KPIs tied to their Seat’s roles and responsibilities.

 

From our guide, On Data.

How Data Supports Ninety's Other Tools

Data should be used to help understand how each team's efforts progress the organization toward its long-term Vision.

Click through the tabs below to see how Data supports some of Ninety's other core tools.

Default KPIs On Scorecards

Ninety automatically adds 20 financial metrics to the Leadership Team's quarterly Scorecard. Click on each KPI to learn more from its details card.

These are items we have observed as being extremely important to company growth, including:

• Key financial metrics
• Subjective performance ratings
• Proficiency in each of the 9 Core Competencies

All other Scorecards are blank when you create your account.

 

Helpful Resources

To learn more about our teachings around Data and Scorecards, check out the following:

• Data Tool Help Center Articles
• On Data Guide
• Data Concept Brief
• Scorecard Tool Brief
• Blog — “How Visionary Leaders Leverage Data to Shape the Future”

 

 

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Can I set the Annual Scorecard to a customized fiscal year instead of the calendar year?

Setting a customized fiscal year is not currently possible. We’d love to hear from you if this feature would benefit your organization. Submit a feature request to help raise its priority.

To submit a feature request, click Provide Feedback from the bottom of the left navigation.

 

 

How do I remove the current week from appearing on my Scorecard?

To remove the current week from your Scorecard:

1. Click Data from the left navigation.
2. Choose your team from the dropdown.
3. Click the gear icon on the right of the Filters bar.
4. Click the Hide current week toggle on.

 

 

What about OKRs, or how can I use a Scorecard to monitor my OKRs?

Objectives and Key Results (OKR) is a popular framework for focusing resources on completing specific goals. Our users can capture their OKRs as Rocks or goals in their team's Vision and turn several of the listed key results into KPIs to monitor on their Scorecard.

For example, if you're projecting an incoming growth and hiring period, you may want to ensure your onboarding process is effective, so you could have a version of the following OKR: 

Objective: We will improve our onboarding process by the end of the quarter.
Key Results: 

• Conduct stay interviews with existing team members.
• Create Seat-specific onboarding checklists.
• Obtain above 90% completion rates on onboarding checklists.

All three of these key results can be turned into KPIs. Here's an example of a KPI from the first key result:

1. Stay Interviews
   1. Description: Complete a stay interview with each team member to inform new onboarding processes. Our goal is to conduct five interviews each week throughout the quarter.
   2. Unit: Number
   3. Goal: 5
   4. Goal orientation: Greater than or equal to goal