During our first 90 days running EOS, our leadership team is struggling to build a weekly Scorecard because we lack clean historical data. How do we establish operational metrics without delaying our Level 10 Meeting rollout?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Do not wait for enterprise software or clean historical data to build your first Scorecard. Waiting for perfect data pipelines is a common excuse leadership teams use to avoid public accountability. In your first ninety days, rough manual visibility beats automated perfection every time.

Build your initial Scorecard using five to fifteen leading indicators tracked in a basic spreadsheet. Leading indicators measure operational activities you control this week: outbound sales calls, billable hours logged, support tickets resolved, client check-ins completed, or parts inspected. Do not clutter the Scorecard with lagging financial results like net profit or EBITDA, which only tell you what happened last month.

Assign exactly one person to own each metric. That owner is personally responsible for pulling the manual count and entering it into the sheet before the weekly Level 10 Meeting begins. If the number is off track, drop it down to the Issues List for IDS. Over the course of your first two quarters, the discipline of entering these numbers manually reveals where your data collection is broken. You can clean up the data pipeline while already benefiting from weekly operational traction. Start ugly, enforce manual updates, and optimize the reporting later.