Why enterprises can’t do OKRs without the software
OKR software helps organizations with all four components or OKR adoption: Education, Process design, Supporting the process & Benefitting from OKRs.
February 25, 2021
The Blog.
The Ultimate Outcome
Ultimately, that outcome, the assignment of value by a party (or multiple parties) external to the organization is the reason for being of the organization. Call it “The Ultimate Outcome.”
November 20, 2020
How to write great OKRs
There is one thing that organizations of any type should master if they want to leverage the OKR superpowers – writing great OKRs. Why so? Because the quality of your OKRs can affect the achievement of your goals in the long run.
September 9, 2020
A tale of two kings: OKRs vs. 4DX
In the “A tale of two kings” series, we aim to provide thought-provoking insights into goal setting and compare OKRs to alternative methods. In the first part, we’re going to explore what OKRs and 4DX are and how are they different from each other.
June 2, 2020
OKRs for the Engineering team
Here, we’ll discuss some of the fundamentals of OKRs creation, including how to craft an effective engineering OKR. We’ll also provide OKR examples for inspiration at all levels of the engineering team: individuals, managers and the entire team.
February 17, 2020
Going Big: OKRs for large businesses
Originally developed at Intel and now used by companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook, OKRs have a proven track record of getting results for large-scale enterprises.
February 4, 2020
Getting started with OKRs – for small businesses
It’s easy to associate OKRs with large companies rather than startups and small businesses. But, as industry guru John Doerr says in Measure What Matters: “At smaller start-ups, where people absolutely need to be pulling in the same direction, OKRs are a survival tool.”
January 27, 2020
Ditch New Year’s Resolutions and try OKRs instead
Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) can transform your flimsy resolutions into a clear, sound and actionable plan for growth and achievement.
January 14, 2020
6 tips to prevent failure in OKR implementation (Part 1)
If you’ve made the decision to implement OKRs in your organization, this article is for you. Maybe OKRs are new to you or perhaps you’ve tried implementing the methodology in your organization before with lackluster results. Either way, you want your team to succeed. Here are some tips to help your team adopt OKRs successfully.
June 10, 2019
OKRs: Gtmhub vs Spreadsheets
When just starting with OKRs, many organizations decide to start with something simple – often a Google Sheets or Excel template. Most people think that an OKRs platform can only help them once they master OKRs, but good OKR software can help you along the whole journey. Ultimately, an organization will use OKRs and Gtmhub
May 21, 2019
OKR example: Software development
OKRs are simple, but not easy. The main problem people have when defining their OKRs is switching from an output (what I need to do) to an outcome (what I need to achieve) mindset. This is particularly true in functions such as software development, where releasing features [on time] and fixing bugs has traditionally been
February 18, 2019
OKRs are a means to an end
Gtmhub helps companies align teams around what matters most. Most often, our customers use Objective and Key Results (OKRs) to define what needs to be achieved, and how to measure progress. But OKRs are means to an end.
December 1, 2018
The Secret Ingredient in the Unicorn Recipe
The world welcomed more Unicorns recently. A Unicorn is a privately owned company with a valuation in excess of $1B. Most of them have one thing in common. A not so secret ingredient.
September 21, 2018
Engineering Incredible Employee Experience and Focused Human Performance
Having spent most of my professional life leading Human Resources teams with global investment banks, consultancies and technology companies – and many smaller, fast-growth tech SMEs around the world – I’ve honestly struggled to end every day with my head held high. I remember sitting around the table with these powerful creatures who had reached
August 10, 2018
How to Thrive in Uncertainty: The Future of Great Work is Finally Here
Recent top headlines on CNBC: “Dow falls more than 150 points after US unveils new tariffs on Chinese goods” “European markets lower on trade war concerns (FTSE -1.08%, DAX -1.47%, CAC -1.30%)” “How Trump’s NATO summit and Putin meeting could shape the future of the West” “Facebook faces UK fine of around $660,000 after data
July 16, 2018
How to grow, achieve more and be happy
Did you ever wonder how Google (aka Alphabet, but I’ll use Google throughout) became one of the most successful companies in the world? As a user of Google (probably) and perhaps as an investor (hopefully), or maybe just as a fascinated bystander, you recognise Google as a great product. Something that works so intuitively that
June 15, 2018
3 Steps to improved performance and employee happiness
Why engage Gtmhub? From my 1st day at Gtmhub, my personal objective has been to prove that it is possible to combine professional performance with personal happiness. For a long time, employees everywhere have sacrificed personal health, and happiness in favour of professional performance. This is no longer a requirement. Competitiveness, growth and long term
June 11, 2018
OKR
The hyper-condensed explanation of OKRs. What is OKRs? OKRs or Objectives & Key Results is a goal setting and management methodology for businesses and organizations. Who uses OKRs? OKRs were invented at Intel and later made popular at Google. Today, numerous organizations use OKRs: Accenture, Amazon, Box, Deloitte, Dropbox, Facebook, Gap, GE, Juniper Networks, LinkedIn, Microsoft,
March 23, 2018
The Health Problem
According the WHO, obesity has tripled since 1975. 39% of people aged 18 or over are overweight or obese. These are global numbers; in the US, UK, China, and other places, the numbers are much higher. On the other hand, it is well known that weight loss and improved fitness are attainable by eating better,
March 13, 2018
OKRs enable home and remote workers
Why adopting OKRs enables remote working without disconnecting team members from your mission and goals.
February 8, 2018
We are late with our OKRs! Now what?!
A lot of organizations say that they have a problem with always being late with setting their OKRs. For example, it’s January 15th and they still haven’t set the OKRs. What typically follows is the sense of failure, guilt, and frustration. Why are organizations late with OKRs? In my experience, the most common reason, why
February 2, 2018
How to OKR: Why objective should be qualitative?
I’ve just had a conversation with a fellow agile enthusiast and a question popped up. Namely, is “Increase new sales by 50%” a good objective? The theory or best practices say that objective should be qualitative (no numbers), and key results should be quantitative (numbers). I also happen to think that in practice this works
December 22, 2017
If you are not changing things, AI is likely to take over your job
As I am writing this post in Berlin, at the SAP.io by Techstars AI focused accelerator, there are dozens of people around me working very diligently to make you unemployed. If you are working in customer support, the brilliant team from Finland is hard at work to make you obsolete. Perhaps, you are in product
September 25, 2017
Ask these 3 questions to succeed with OKRs.
Bottom Line: To be successful with OKRs, ask three questions: What do we want to achieve? How are we going to measure success? What are we going to do to make progress?
August 24, 2017
OKRs in a pre-product market fit startup
“Increase revenue.” That is by far the most popular Objective on our trial accounts. And, can you blame people. It is raison d’être for having a business. Yes, yes… make the world better place, impact – I know. But, it’s so much easier to make the world a better place when one is a billionaire.
June 29, 2017
Single most important factor of successful OKRs adoption
I’d love to tell you that getting the right OKRs software, such as Gtmhub, is the most important thing to ensure successful adoption of OKRs – alas it is not so. Based on hundreds of conversations we had with prospects, customers and businesses using OKRs – we have isolated one, very much offline, practice that
June 27, 2017
Playbook for adopting OKRs in a startup
OKRs are all the rage among the startups these days. There is a lot of resources on what OKRs are and how to use them. While OKRs, as a concept, seem pretty straightforward – introducing them in an organization can be tricky.
June 26, 2017
Facebook just changed its mission statement. Do you even have one?
Mark Zuckerberg has just announced that, after ten years, Facebook is changing its mission statement. The old mission statement “Make the world more open and connected.” has been changed to Bring the world closer together.
June 23, 2017
List of OKR tools
OKRs are getting more popular by the day. We can see this both in the number of companies that contact us to help them adopt OKRs, as well as in the exploding number of tools that help companies drive performance through OKRs. We often hear people suggesting companies to start “simple” with post-it notes or
June 22, 2017
What is an OKR champion?
When a team or company adopts OKRs, establishing a role of OKR champion is one of the most important things that needs to happen. In short, the role of this person is to make sure that team is successful with OKRs.
June 14, 2017