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Strategy meets Execution

Alignment for adaptive strategy execution

A distracted or misaligned team is not a productive or effective team. Alignment is a no-brainer in theory. But the difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than…

By Bo Pedersen

February 24, 2021

Strategy meets Execution

Can your organization adapt faster than it can be disrupted?

OKRs are a proven framework for effective strategy execution that is becoming almost ubiquitous among digital-native and agile enterprises of all sizes. Why are OKRs ideal for strategy execution in…

By Evan Campbell

December 7, 2020

Start with OKRs Strategy meets Execution

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.”

By Jeremy Epstein

November 20, 2020

Strategy meets Execution

Communicate your top-level strategy more effectively with OKRs

How to keep all people aligned? Should Company X be implementing the new strategy initially only within the C-Suite or a focus group involving department leads is required? What kind…

By Dilyana Simeonova

May 13, 2020

Start with OKRs Strategy meets Execution

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.

By Seth Elliot

February 4, 2020

Start with OKRs Strategy meets Execution

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…

By Seth Elliot

January 27, 2020

Strategy meets Execution

Don’t tell me what to do

Give me a strong reason why. Give me the ways and means to learn how. But please don’t tell me what to do. From Compliance to Commitment Purpose led businesses…

By Bo Pedersen

September 4, 2019

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

A Contrarian Approach to OKRs

In times past, I spent many an hour worrying about goal setting and OKRs in particular. For me, concerns usually fell into one of 5 big buckets: Defining inspirational OKRs…

By Bo Pedersen

August 12, 2019

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

Sales OKRs are NOT about sales targets

It is said that sales “lives by the number”. That number is usually some variation of revenue (bookings, billings, MRR, ARR…). The problem is that this number, as Jeff Bezos…

By Ivan Osmak

June 9, 2019

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

Why does Gtmhub not support weighted key results?

The use case of weighted key results is that some key results are more important than others – hence progress on the important key results should count for more than…

By Ivan Osmak

June 1, 2019

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

How companies run OKRs – according to data

Have you ever wondered how other companies and organizations run their OKRs? What is common and what is rare? Are you doing the best practices or are you being exotic…

By Ivan Osmak

May 28, 2019

Strategy meets Execution

Managing Change and Business as Usual at the same time

The key question is not whether to use OKRs or KPIs. Rather the opportunity is to use both OKRs and KPIs to drive positive change, while managing the business as…

By Bo Pedersen

May 14, 2019

Strategy meets Execution

Hidden Gems at the Royal Bank of Scotland

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is one the worlds largest banks. It is also one of the worlds most troubled banks, with several long lasting hangovers still inflicting pain years…

By Bo Pedersen

April 29, 2019

Strategy meets Execution

Innovation at Scale in Financial Services

The worlds largest banks are playing catch up. After retreating to lick their wounds after the near death experience of the Great Financial Crisis ten year ago, banks are back,…

By Bo Pedersen

April 17, 2019

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

One objective to rule them all; or how to kill it with OKRs

At the beginning of each quarter, the very first OKR I define for myself is a meta-objective: Kill it with OKRs. I’ve shared this practice with numerous people, and many…

By Ivan Osmak

April 8, 2019

Strategy meets Execution

Execution – The Ugly Duckling

Don’t treat Execution like the Ugly Duckling. It’s really a beautiful swan that can save both your Purpose and Strategy from languishing in misunderstood and much ignored irrelevance.

By Bo Pedersen

March 13, 2019

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

The power of passive-aggressive OKRs 😏

At the start of each quarter, one of the things I enjoy the most is setting passive-aggressive OKRs. Yeah, I am a lot of fun to work with. In general,…

By Ivan Osmak

February 19, 2019

Strategy meets Execution

Stretch organisations, not people

There is a lot of talk about the value (or not) of stretch goals. Practiced and preached for decades, stretch goals are not new. However, in our experience, we see…

By Bo Pedersen

February 13, 2019

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

ROI from OKRs – Measure!

In this blog series, we will be looking at the potential return on investment from implementing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Across 5 articles we will look a how the…

By Bo Pedersen

October 22, 2018

Strategy meets Execution

Lessons from working with the best

One of the reasons I am so grateful to work at Gtmhub is that we get to work with some of the best organisations, doing amazing things, performing at the…

By Bo Pedersen

October 3, 2018

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

ROI from OKRs – Stretch!

In this blog series, we will be looking at the potential return on investment from implementing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Across 5 articles we will look a how the…

By Bo Pedersen

September 24, 2018