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Key Performance Indicators. by Captain Bill Lunn, MD MarMan Ltd, Chairman Intermanager’s Best Practices Committee Lloyds Ship Management Conference Limassol, Cyprus, 11-12 th August 2006. Contents. KPIs: What they are and what they are not! Do we need KPIs? What constitutes a good KPI?
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Key Performance Indicators by Captain Bill Lunn, MD MarMan Ltd, Chairman Intermanager’s Best Practices Committee Lloyds Ship Management Conference Limassol, Cyprus, 11-12th August 2006
Contents • KPIs: What they are and what they are not! • Do we need KPIs? • What constitutes a good KPI? • Sharing KPI information outside our own companies: possible problems • Common methods of measuring KPIs • Intermanager’s KPI project: looking at reasons why the industry needs to set common KPIs
Definitions • A regular measurement based on data which indicates the performance of a process or a business line. Performance indicators may allow for a trend analysis over time and could incorporate escalation procedures once a particular threshold or trigger level has been exceeded.www.riskdimensions.com
A Good KPI • Easily and accurately measured • Quantitative, rather than qualitative. • Not unduly influenced by external factors. • Neutral, e.g. often expressed as a percentage or ratio • Relate to one unique process. • Not limited to top level processes.
Use of KPI’s in Shipping - historically • Voyage Abstracts • Coded messages • Charterers • Insurers
Use of KPIs in shipping - today • The need for KPIs is a consequence of the measuring and monitoring, and continuous improvement processes embedded in the ISM Code and ISO 9000:2000 • All responsible ship managers have developed company specific KPIs to support their quality improvement processes • The development is also driven by the changes taking places in other industries where focus is shifting from detailed process regulation to goal based regulation (outcome)
The Ship Manager’s challenge • In the future, reporting of KPIs will be required by owners, charterers, oil majors, insurance companies, P & I clubs, Port state authorities (incl. individual ports), Flag state authorities, etc. • Each “stakeholder” will develop his own definition for how KPIs should be calculated and reported • Too many KPIs will be requested
KPI standardization problem (one example) Possibilities: • On same vessel • On sister vessels • On same ship types • With same Owner • With same Crew Manager • Length of service • Promotion – reset to zero Retention Rates: How should we calculate these?
Quality improvement efforts “strangled” by red tape Consequences - worst case? • Additional manpower required to present the same information in many different ways • Extensive data collection and reporting requirements on vessel and crew • Opportunities for confusion and mistakes leading to misrepresentation of facts • Difficult to mobilize organizational focus on the right issues • Inability by stake holders to compare reports from different organizations
Self regulation is the preferred solution! Preferred scenario • That the shipping industry will operate on a common standard for measuring, calculating and reporting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). • An acceptance by all stakeholders that performance in ship operation can be adequately established with a limited number of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
No pan-industry agreement can be reached without a tool to measure the “value” of the various contributing factors to safety and environmental protection The main challenge: • To agree on a set of KPIs that: • gives a representative picture of the quality of the ship’s operational performance, and is: • limited in number • uniquely defined • transparent • economic to collect