We are undergoing a major business model pivot and restructuring our service delivery, which has made our historical scorecard targets completely irrelevant. How do we adjust our weekly numbers without destroying our team's alignment and accountability?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

During a major pivot or restructuring, your historical data becomes obsolete. If you try to force your team to hit old targets based on a legacy business model, you will cause frustration and kill morale. However, abandoning your weekly scorecard entirely during a transition is a recipe for chaos.

When your business model is shifting, you must temporarily shift your scorecard from measuring efficiency to measuring transition progress. Your metrics should focus on the speed and quality of the execution of the pivot itself.

Start by lowering the target thresholds for your legacy metrics to reflect the reduced focus on that part of the business. Then, introduce temporary transition metrics. For example, if you are moving from custom services to a standardized product, track the percentage of legacy clients successfully migrated to the new platform, or the number of team members trained on the new operating procedures.

Keep these transitional metrics on your scorecard for one to two quarters. Once the new model stabilizes, gather four to six weeks of baseline data. Use this new baseline to establish realistic, permanent targets.

This approach preserves the discipline of your weekly Level 10 Meeting and keeps your team aligned around a single source of truth, even when the ground is shifting beneath their feet.