In this sense I do consider many KPIs often to be good metrics to find out whether the company is on the right path, or as an early warning system for problems that the company might become confronted with in the future.
But as soon as you use KPIs to assess managers, they will become gamed, and thus loose a lot of their value.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
In this sense I do consider many KPIs often to be good metrics to find out whether the company is on the right path, or as an early warning system for problems that the company might become confronted with in the future.
But as soon as you use KPIs to assess managers, they will become gamed, and thus loose a lot of their value.