Are KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) considered as Quality Objectives?

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Intesar

Hi,

we are a big company with alot of approved and measurable KPIs for every division, and we are in the first stage of implementing ISO 9001.

(Q1): Do all the KPIs considered as quality objectives?

(Q2): if yes, do we need to include All KPIs?

regards,
 

Jim Wynne

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Re: Do KPIs considered as quality Objectives?

Hi,

we are a big company with alot of approved and measurable KPIs for every division, and we are in the first stage of implementing ISO 9001.
Welcome to the Cove. :D

(Q1): Do all the KPIs considered as quality objectives?
A KPI (Key Process Indicator) is not an objective. It's a way of measuring progress (or lack thereof) towards achieving an objective.

(Q2): if yes, do we need to include All KPIs?
You should have objectives and ways of measuring progress towards them. Starting towards ISO 9001 compliance is a good time to review all of this; there are almost always things that should be measured that aren't being measured, and vice versa.
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Stijloor

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Re: Do KPIs considered as quality Objectives?

Hi,

we are a big company with alot of approved and measurable KPIs for every division, and we are in the first stage of implementing ISO 9001.

(Q1): Do all the KPIs considered as quality objectives?

(Q2): if yes, do we need to include All KPIs?

regards,

Q1. A KPI is typically a measurement associated with a process performance objective. The organization establishes objectives and measurements to track performance over time.

Q2. What to include is your company's (Top Management) responsibility.

More objectives + measurements are not always better. Useful and meaningful ones are... ;)

Stijloor.
 

qusys

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Re: Are KPIs considered as Quality Objectives?

Hi,

we are a big company with alot of approved and measurable KPIs for every division, and we are in the first stage of implementing ISO 9001.

(Q1): Do all the KPIs considered as quality objectives?

(Q2): if yes, do we need to include All KPIs?

regards,

I think no because key performance indicators are measurable of the QMS processes. They are numerical values, while quality objectives should be a clear statement to pursue continual improvement, better serve the customer and have effective and efficient processes in place.:bigwave:
 

Big Jim

Admin
Re: Are KPIs considered as Quality Objectives?

Hi,

we are a big company with alot of approved and measurable KPIs for every division, and we are in the first stage of implementing ISO 9001.

(Q1): Do all the KPIs considered as quality objectives?

(Q2): if yes, do we need to include All KPIs?

regards,

KPI (Key Performance Indicators, often called Key Process Indicators within ISO companies), are most certainly closely related to quality objectives if they are not the same as quality objectives. They serve similar if not the same purposes, and have nearly the same if not the same attributes.

Many companies line their KPI up with their quality objectives.

Now more specifically to your question, you get to declare what your quality objectives are. However, they need to be at relevant levels and functions within the organizations (sounds a lot like a definition of a KPI right there).

What is common is to have a few, maybe three to six, quality objectives, but to have many more KPI.

KPI tracking is a common way to answer element 8.2.3 (Monitoring and Measurement of Processes).

There are a couple of good indications about KPI in the standard. Note 1 in element 4.1 provides guidance on what your processes are.

8.4 provides requirements about the metrics to track, pointing out that you need to as a minimum determine, collect, and analyze data concerning four main topics, customer satisfaction, product quality, process performance, and supplier performance.

My recommendation is to look at your existing KPI, whatever they may be, from whatever management dashboard they exist in, and choose the four that best provide overall answers to the topics from 8.4 and call them you quality objectives. Share these, and their results, with all employees to help meet 6.2.2 d.

Next, once you have determined what your core processes are from 4.1, find a KPI (including those you have selected as quality objectives) to line up with each core process to help you answer 8.2.3. There is nothing wrong with having several indicators for any one process, and the additional ones could be called simply indicators, or KPI, your choice.

No, you do not need to find all the KPI and include them in your declared quality objectives.
 
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kgott

Re: Are KPIs considered as Quality Objectives?

Think of it this way; If what are now called KPI's, were called Sucess Factors or Success Milestones instead, would you still regard them as objectives?
 

Big Jim

Admin
Re: Are KPIs considered as Quality Objectives?

Think of it this way; If what are now called KPI's, were called Sucess Factors or Success Milestones instead, would you still regard them as objectives?

I would. If it walks like duck and it talks like a duck, it probably is a duck.
 
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