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KPI wall examples: real walls and example KPIs per sector

CoVinceNovember 9, 20266 min read

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What does a good KPI wall look like? This page has real screenshots of walls in the CoVince Control Room, and per sector a list of example KPIs to choose from. The numbers in the images are demo data. Which KPIs belong on your wall is up to your team.

In this article

Real walls
What a good KPI wall has in common
Example KPIs per sector
How to build one

Real walls from the Control Room

Each image below is a screenshot from CoVince’s Control Room, with demo data.

KPI wall example: go-live wall in the CoVince Control Room with KPI tiles, goals, trends and a readiness meter — **A go-live wall.** KPIs with their target, trends and a readiness meter. Suitable for a project working towards a date.

KPI wall example: Control Room with a status matrix per clinic, a Pareto chart of reasons and KPI tiles with a target — **A status matrix and a Pareto chart.** A status per location, and the reasons in order of size. Suitable for showing where it goes wrong.

KPI wall example: detail of a KPI with latest value, change, target, lowest and highest point and a line per week — **The detail of a KPI.** Tap a tile for the trend per week against the target, with a table per period and a CSV download.

KPI wall example: a canvas with a timeline per week, an action list with owner and date and a remote colleague on screen — **Plan and actions on a canvas.** A timeline per week, an action list with owner and date, and a remote colleague on screen.

KPI wall example: three walls of screens in the Syner Suite, CoVince's immersive room, with three people at a round table — **The walls in the room.** The Syner Suite, CoVince’s immersive room: nine standing 86-inch screens in a U, three per wall.

What a good KPI wall has in common

Every KPI has a target. Without a target nobody knows whether 86 is good or bad.
Every KPI has an owner. Someone who says: that is my number.
Five to eight numbers per wall. More, and the team stops reading them.
A colour and a trend. Green, orange or red, and the direction.
An action for every red number. In CoVince you tap a chart and see which action is attached to it.
Today’s numbers. A wall with outdated numbers is a notice board.

Example KPIs per sector

These are examples of topics to choose from, not norms and not target values. You decide the target and the source yourself.

Healthcare

KPI topic	Why on the wall
Waiting time	Shows whether patients are helped faster
Staffing	Capacity against demand, per shift or ward
Cancelled appointments	Lost capacity, with the reason alongside
Lead time of a care pathway	Makes delay between departments visible

Local government and public sector

KPI topic	Why on the wall
Lead time of applications	What citizens notice, per department
Progress per phase or neighbourhood	Programmes rolled out in steps
Open dependencies	What one department needs from another
Overdue actions	Ownership across departments

More in Obeya in local government and the public sector.

IT and agile

KPI topic	Why on the wall
Lead time	How long a ticket or feature is under way
Open incidents	The health of what is running
Availability	What users of the service notice
Dependencies between teams	What can block a release

Construction and infrastructure

KPI topic	Why on the wall
Progress per phase	Are we on schedule?
Open reports	What still has to be handled
Delivery times	What arrives late and what it hits
Completed work packages	How much is done

More in Obeya in construction and infrastructure.

Manufacturing

KPI topic	Why on the wall
Scrap	What comes off the line that is not good
Lead time	How long an order is under way
Delivery reliability	What the customer notices about you
Safety reports	What people on the floor see

Education

KPI topic	Why on the wall
Assignments handed in	Progress of a group, not of a person
Progress of a project	What is done and what still has to be
Open actions of the team	Ownership in miniature

How to build one

Per wall, pick five to eight KPI topics from the list above.
Give each a target and an owner. Remove them if that does not work.
Let the numbers come from CoVince, a CSV or a connected source, or type them in.
Attach an action with owner and date to every red number.

With ‘Make with AI’ a short description becomes a proposal with pages, measurements with their source, phases and roles. Nothing is on the board before you press Build. For a fill-in sheet without a tool: Free Obeya template.

Frequently asked questions

Are the numbers in the images real?

No. The screenshots come from the CoVince Control Room with demo data.

Which KPIs should I choose?

Your team decides that itself. Pick five to eight numbers per wall, each with a target and an owner, and remove what does not drive a decision.

Where do the numbers come from?

From CoVince itself, from a CSV, from connected sources, or you type them in.

How do I see which action belongs to a KPI?

Tap a chart and you see which action is attached to it. Every action has an owner and a date.

Does the wall fit on a big screen?

Yes. The Control Room spreads over one, three or nine screens, and each screen gets a name.

What is visual management?

Visual management is the principle of making the state of affairs visible so nobody has to ask for it. A KPI wall and an Obeya are forms of it. See also Obeya vs Kanban, Scrum board and Visual Management.