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Indicators Nobody Checks Direct Nothing
Having KPIs isn't the same as managing with them. Adrián Gómez explains how to choose a few indicators tied to real execution decisions.
Adrián Gómez
COO · 18 Sept 2026
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Indicators nobody watches lead nowhere
Organisations accumulate indicators easily. The hard part is choosing the few that actually change an execution decision. Without that selection, the dashboard becomes scenery.
- A KPI without an owner and a cadence is noise.
- Measuring a lot is not the same as controlling better.
- A useful indicator anticipates action, it doesn't only describe the past.
Decorative metrics on the wall
We find dashboards with twenty metrics and teams that still decide by gut. We also find clubs with abundant statistics that don't change a single rotation or load plan. The data exists, but it never enters the decision ritual.
When that happens, people stop trusting the numbers and go back to the same old story.
- Indicators updated too late to act on.
- Vanity metrics nobody knows how to use.
- Debates about the right number instead of the decision.
What is not reviewed does not govern
In high performance you look at what helps adjust the plan. The rest is surplus. Business needs that same selection discipline.
“If an indicator doesn't change a decision this week, it probably doesn't belong.”
— Adrián Gómez
COO at People & Play
Fewer metrics, better governed, usually produce more execution than a saturated panel.
How to keep only what moves decisions
You can clean your indicator system with a demanding filter.
- Choose three to five indicators per team
- Prioritise those that anticipate risk or priority progress.
- Remove or archive the rest.
- Assign an owner and an action threshold
- Define which number triggers a conversation or a plan change.
- Without a threshold, the indicator is only contemplated.
- Review them in the same decision ritual
- Put them in the meeting where priorities are set, not in a separate report.
- If they don't fit there, they aren't operational.
Questions to prune the scorecard
Look at your current panel:
- How many indicators changed a decision last month?
- Who owns each critical metric?
- Do you have action thresholds, or only trends?
- Does the review cadence arrive in time to correct course?
- Which metrics could you switch off tomorrow without anyone noticing?
Let's clean dead indicators together
Measuring isn't the goal. Deciding better is.
If you want to cut noise and keep the indicators that truly drive execution, let's talk. It's concrete work, and liberating.