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Key Success Factors (KSF)

Clear up your key results with Key Success Factors (also known as Critical Success Factors) and move only forward towards the objective achievement. 

 

In this piece, we are going to answer the following questions:

  • What are Key Success Factors and why KSFs are important?
  • How to identify Key Success Factors?
  • What's the difference between Critical Success Factors and Key Performance Indicators?
  • How to succeed with KSFs and the KeepSolid Goals app?

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Outline Key Success Factors of your business, organize your workflow according to these KSFs with the Goals app, and lead your team to success!

What are Key Success Factors

Key Success Factor is an important element that is intended to help your team better understand your objective and track its efficiency

 

To be effective, a KSF should:

  • be vital to the organization’s success
  • benefit the company in the long run
  • be related to outlined key results
  • link directly to your business strategy

 

Most businesses across most industries have the same Key Success Factors, such as rising income, boosting sales, boosting productivity, keeping teamwork on schedule, and improving customer satisfaction.

6 Groups of Key Success Factors for any Business

Types of Key Success Factors

Industry factors

Industry factors depend on the specific characteristics of your industry. These are steps you should take to remain competitive within your business area. For example, implementing top-notch encryption could be an industry KSF for password manager applications.

Environmental factors

Political, economic, social, and technological factors form environmental KSFs. These factors refer to how the macroeconomic conditions influence your company’s financial health and performance.

Strategic factors

Strategic factors determine the success of your company at each stage in its life cycle. These factors include product quality, customer service, used technologies, marketing strategies, customer satisfaction, and change in all these factors over time.

Temporal factors

Temporal factors result from the organization's growth and internal changes. These factors are usually short-lived and specific. For example, key result Expanding business could be bounded with a KSF like Increasing international sales.

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A few Key Success Factor examples:

Critical Success Factors and Key Performance Indicators: What’s the Difference

  • KSFs are the cause of success. Key Success Factors set out what you should do to succeed. These factors are often quite universal across the business world and include quality leadership, engaged employees, loyal customers, and whatnot.
  • KPIs are the measure of success. Key Performance Indicators measure whether your tasks lead you to success. Key Performance Indicators typically differ from business to business, depending on the chosen strategy, objective, key results, etc.

 

In other words, KPIs are the way to measure whether your CSFs are working for your objectives. To make sure, everything is crystal clear, here is a useful set of questions to develop Critical Success Factors and Key Performance Indicators:

  • What is an essential factor to achieve your objective and key results? (This is the KSF)
  • How to indicate and track your KSF progress and completion? (This is the KPI)

How to Identify Key Success Factors

To identify and develop your Key Success Factors, follow these step-by-step instructions:

 

1. First of all, you should figure out your objective and key results.

2. Then answer a question on what process or activity is essential to be completed to achieve the appropriate key result. The answers are your potential KSF.

3. Review and evaluate all potential Key Success Factors and identify those that are truly essential for achieving your key results.

4. Add these KSF to the relevant key results. You can use the Description field, for instance.

5. Decide how you can monitor and measure your Key Success Factors and set proper KPI for each key result.

6. Constantly monitor KPIs to make sure you stay on track. This allows you to make some necessary changes on time.

7. After completion of all tasks related to the same key result, make sure you achieve its KPIs and meet KSFs.

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Boost Your Project to the Next Level with KeepSolid Goals

  • Visually present the main objective and key results using the mind mapping tool
  • Structure all key results and tasks by splitting them into time-bounded sprints
  • Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders to stay on the same page
  • Keep teamwork on schedule and track work progress and ongoing activities daily
  • Always be aware of the current state of affairs and be able to make changes

Make Sure to Set Only Measurable Key Success Factors

Unmeasurable Key Success Factors leads you and your team to inability to see the results of your great efforts. And that’s upsetting. Also, tracking the results of your work helps to stay on the right track and not waste time and resources on inappropriate tasks.

 

Understanding your KSF progress during task implementation allows you to manage your strategy and adjust workflow if needed.

 

In addition, realistic and measurable Key Success Factors keep you focused during the whole project implementation. They allow you to understand the steps you should take to complete relevant key results, detect issues timely, and promptly make necessary changes.

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