We want to design a clean company scorecard that represents our entire operation, but we are struggling to select our five to fifteen metrics. How do we map our business model from customer acquisition to collection to make sure we cover all bases without leaving blind spots?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Your company scorecard must tell the story of your business in numbers every single week. To find your five to fifteen metrics without creating a bloated dashboard, you must map your entire customer journey from left to right.

Think of your business as a linear machine. To run on data, you need to place a sensor at every major transition point in that machine.

Map these five critical stages:
- Marketing: Track how many potential customers enter your world, such as new qualified leads generated.
- Sales: Track the activity that moves those leads forward, like discovery meetings booked or proposals sent.
- Operations: Track the quality and speed of your delivery, such as weekly project milestones achieved or product error rates.
- Customer Satisfaction: Track the immediate reaction of your customers, like net promoter scores or customer ticket response times.
- Finance: Track the liquidity and cash generation of the business, such as weekly cash balance or billing run rate.

Each of these categories should have one or two leading indicators owned by a specific seat on your Accountability Chart. If you have three sales metrics but zero operational metrics, you have a major blind spot.

When you layout your scorecard this way, you can spot exactly where the machine is breaking down. A drop in marketing leads today predicts a drop in sales meetings next week, which predicts a cash squeeze next month. This visual map gives you the predictability you need to scale the business and eventually prepare for a clean exit.