0 abbreviation for key performance indicator: a way of measuring a company's progress towards the goals it is trying to achieve: --
Key performance indicators (KPIs) provide managers with advanced warning signals that there may be problems ahead.
A KPI is a performance metric for a specific business activity.
1 abbreviation for key performance indicator: a very important indicator (= something that shows what a situation is like or how it is changing) that shows how well an economy, company, stock, project, etc., is doing: --
The KPIs vary from industry to industry and business to business.
Key Performance Indicator (KPI): A measure which is of strategic importance to a company or department.
How many small firms with less than five advisers have formal reviews of an adviser's KPIs?
He set about turning British Airways around in the 1980s by reportedly concentrating on one KPI.