Green Doesn't Mean Good

Sometimes it means the bar stopped moving. Are you improving, or is your standard outdated?

A green KPI board can be the most dangerous thing in your plant. When every metric is green, the question isn't whether you're performing — it's whether your targets still mean anything. This infographic walks four failure modes hiding behind a green board: stale targets set for a different reality, invisible complacency where the goal becomes staying green, scoring over outcome where the metric gets hit but the asset still fails, and the fix — recalibrate the standard so progress means moving the bar.