progress towards the US goal of increasing South Vietnamese government control of its territory. Another example would be to measure the productivity of a software development team in terms of lines of source code written. This approach can easily add large amounts of dubious code, thereby inflating the line count but adding little value in terms of systemic improvement. A similar problem arises when a footballer kicks a ball uselessly to build up their statistics. See also Business intelligence Business performance management Community indicators Critical success factor Dashboarding Data presentation architecture Figure of merit Gap analysis Goodhart's law ITIL Key risk indicator Network performance Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) Overall equipment effectiveness Strategy Markup Language Supplier relationship management (SRM) References Further reading David Parmenter, Key Performance Indicators – Developing, Implementing, and Using Winning KPIs. (4th Edition). John Wiley & Sons 2020, . Bernard Marr, Key Performance Indicators: The 75+ Measures Every Manager Needs to Know. Financial Times/ Prentice Hall 2012, . Abeysiriwardana P.C., Jayasinghe-Mudalige U., Role of Peripheral Analysis Methods in Adoption of Successful KPIs for a Research Institute Working Towards Commercial Agriculture. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42943-021-00021-z in JGBC, Organizational performance management Metrics Business intelligence Indicators