Our EOS Scorecard is mostly green, but we keep losing established customers. What should we change before selling?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Change the Scorecard so it exposes customer losses rather than allowing new sales to obscure them. A green Scorecard is useful only when its measures reflect the health of the business you intend to transfer.

Start by defining retention consistently. Customer-count retention and revenue retention answer different questions. Separate revenue from existing customers, expansion within those accounts and revenue from new customers. For a project-based business, use a repeat-purchase measure appropriate to its buying cycle rather than imposing a subscription metric.

Add a small number of actionable weekly indicators where meaningful data is available. Depending on the business, these might include unresolved service failures, renewal decisions approaching without customer engagement or accounts showing a material decline in activity. Each measure needs an owner, a clear definition and an agreed response when it is off track.

Use IDS to investigate the causes behind losses. Pricing, customer fit, service delivery and relationship coverage require different remedies. Do not assign a generic retention Rock before understanding which issue the team must solve.

Maintain a longer-term view alongside the weekly Scorecard. Customer groups can behave differently, and a weekly snapshot may not reveal deterioration across a full renewal or purchasing cycle.

The exit lens is straightforward: distinguish growth that replaces departing customers from growth built on durable relationships. Present the evidence honestly, including unresolved weaknesses. EOS provides the execution discipline to improve retention, but green indicators alone are not proof of durable revenue.