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Comparing Hives.co and KPI Fire? Both platforms serve the continuous improvement space but from different angles. KPI Fire is a strategy execution and continuous improvement project tracking tool. Hives.co is an idea management platform designed to collect, evaluate, and implement employee ideas. Here is an honest look at where each excels.
What Is KPI Fire?
KPI Fire is a continuous improvement software platform that focuses on connecting improvement projects to strategic objectives and KPIs. The platform helps organizations track CI projects, measure their impact against business goals, and maintain visibility across multiple improvement initiatives. KPI Fire ranks for "continuous improvement software" and has built credibility through conference roundups and industry event participation, which attract backlinks and industry attention.
KPI Fire's strength is in the tracking and measurement layer: connecting individual improvement projects to organization-wide KPIs and strategic goals. Their target audience is CI managers, Lean Six Sigma practitioners, and operational excellence leaders who need to demonstrate how improvement activities drive business results.
What Is Hives.co?
Hives.co is a Scandinavian idea management platform for mid-to-large organizations (500+ employees). It focuses on the upstream part of the improvement process: getting ideas from employees, evaluating them systematically, and tracking implementation. Clients include Volvo, Scania, Halfords, and VINCI Energies. Pricing starts at €695/month.
Key Differences
Idea collection vs project tracking. Hives.co excels at the front end: making it easy for any employee to submit ideas, running targeted campaigns, and systematically evaluating submissions. KPI Fire excels at the back end: tracking improvement projects against strategic KPIs and measuring cumulative impact.
Broad engagement vs practitioner focus. Hives.co is designed for organization-wide participation (QR codes, anonymous submissions, mobile access). KPI Fire is designed primarily for CI practitioners, project leaders, and managers who track and execute improvement initiatives.
Idea lifecycle vs strategy execution. Hives.co manages the idea lifecycle from submission through implementation. KPI Fire manages the connection between improvement projects and business strategy. Different stages of the same overall continuous improvement journey.
Where Hives.co Wins
- Employee engagement at scale. Getting 1,000+ employees to participate in idea generation requires simplicity, accessibility, and low friction. Hives.co's QR code submissions, anonymous options, and campaign-based approach drive broad participation. KPI Fire is not designed for mass idea collection.
- Idea evaluation workflows. Custom scoring criteria, structured review stages, and clear accountability for each submission. Hives.co turns a flood of ideas into a prioritized pipeline.
- Enterprise proof points. Volvo, Scania, Halfords, and VINCI Energies are recognizable names that validate the platform at scale.
- Cross-industry versatility. Hives.co works in manufacturing, retail, energy, and services. KPI Fire focuses primarily on manufacturing and operations CI.
- Transparent pricing. Published pricing starting at €695/month. No guesswork.
Where KPI Fire Wins
- Strategy-to-project alignment. If your biggest challenge is connecting individual improvement projects to strategic KPIs and demonstrating how CI drives business outcomes, KPI Fire is specifically designed for this.
- CI project portfolio management. Tracking multiple concurrent improvement projects with timelines, resource allocation, and impact measurement. KPI Fire treats CI as a portfolio of projects, not a pipeline of ideas.
- Lean Six Sigma workflow integration. KPI Fire is built around CI methodology: DMAIC, A3, and project-based improvement. If your team thinks in terms of CI projects rather than employee ideas, KPI Fire speaks their language.
- Conference and community presence. KPI Fire is active in CI industry events and produces content that resonates with the Lean Six Sigma community.
Who Should Choose Which?
Choose Hives.co if: Your priority is getting more employees to share ideas and building a structured system to evaluate and implement them. You want broad organizational engagement, not just CI practitioner tools. You need enterprise-scale idea management with transparent pricing.
Choose KPI Fire if: Your priority is tracking CI projects against strategic KPIs and measuring cumulative impact. Your users are primarily CI managers and Lean Six Sigma practitioners. You need to demonstrate how improvement projects connect to business strategy.
Like many tools in this space, Hives.co and KPI Fire are complementary. Hives.co feeds the pipeline with employee ideas; KPI Fire tracks the resulting improvement projects against strategic goals. Some organizations use both.
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