how to develop KPIs for R&D

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asked 8 years ago
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Aleksey Savkin Staff answered 8 years ago

There are many possible candidates for R&D KPIs, but most of them will make sense only on a big scale. To focus the efforts I’d suggest to use the steps of KPI system.
 
For example, in your very case what are the R&D process bottlenecks? Is the main challenge related to the collection of the ideas or prototyping? Once the focus area is defined you can track your efforts on time/cost/income/number scale.


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