How are Critical Success Factors important to your business?

Identifying CSF’s is important as it allows firms to focus their efforts on building their capabilities to meet the CSF’s, or even allow firms to decide if they have the capability to build the requirements necessary to meet Critical Success Factors

As a common point of reference, CSFs help everyone in the team to know exactly what's most important. And this helps people perform their own work in the right context and so pull together towards the same overall aims.

Critical Success Factors, also known as Key Results Areas, are the areas of your business or project that are absolutely essential to its success. By identifying and communicating these CSFs, you can help ensure your business or project is well-focused and avoid wasting effort and resources on less important areas. By making CSFs explicit and communicating them with everyone involved, you can help keep the business and project on track towards common aims and goals.

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Critical Success Factors, also known as Key Results Areas, are the areas of any business or project that are absolutely essential to its success. By identifying and communicating these CSFs, we can help ensure our business or project is well-focused and avoid wasting effort and resources on less important areas. By making CSFs explicit and communicating them with everyone involved, we can help keep the business and project on track towards common aims and goals.

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Step 1: Use multiple frameworks to examine the key elements of your long-term goals.

·         OAS statement: OAS is an acronym for “Objective, Advantage, Scope.” This method—further described in this article—helps you describe your strategy with full confidence, and acts as a starting point for you to be able to drill down into the critical goals your organization needs in order to execute this strategy.

·         SWOT analysis: SWOT is an acronym for “Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats.” Form Swift has a great example of how to put together a comprehensive SWOT analysis to help your organization “optimize performance, maximize potential, manage competition, and minimize risk.”

·         Strategic plan: This article outlines the six important steps you’ll need to take before you can get to a clear, understandable strategic plan.

·         Change agenda: A “change agenda” is exactly as it sounds—it answers what an organization needs to change in order to achieve their goals. (You can read all about how to create a change agenda in this strategy execution toolkit.)

Step 2: Determine which factors are key in achieving your long-term organizational plan.

In order to achieve a strategic plan and overcome challenges in any of the aforementioned frameworks, you’ll need to understand what the key factors are in achieving a long-term plan. Essentially, you’ll combine the key elements you’ve gleaned from your OAS statement, SWOT analysis, strategic plan, and change agenda, and then determine what your top CSFs are. (This comprehensive guide will walk you through the process you should take to align your critical success factors and your projects.)

But you can’t simply lump any high-level organizational goals together and hope that it works out. You need to take all of your CSFs and divide them out by what the Balanced Scorecard framework calls “perspectives.” Traditional strategic frameworks would only examine a financial perspective, but that system is flawed. There are several more important aspects that can impact strategy that can’t properly be lumped into the category of finance. The four we suggest using are: Financial, Customer, Process, and People.  These may be aligned in a different order if you are a nonprofit or government organization.

When you group each of your 10-15 high-level goals under one of these four perspectives, you are setting yourself up for greater success and better measurability.

Step 3: Implement your company-wide strategic plan with your critical success factors in mind.

Don’t think that identifying your critical success factors, grouping them under a perspective, and then leaving them on a shelf to collect dust is going to help you succeed. You need to take action to get CSFs implemented throughout the organization.

One of the best ways to accomplish this is by creating a Balanced Scorecard (BSC), a strategic management framework that allows you achieve your critical success factors in a more effective way. Scorecarding allows you to take your critical success factors (often calledobjectives when used to discuss the BSC) and use measures to help you understand if you’re achieving them. Initiatives allow you to understand if you’re taking the right actions to accomplish your CSFs, and action items are the small (but important) tasks delegated to help your team complete the initiatives.

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