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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

Strategy meets Execution

Yay or Nay: Should OKRs Drive Performance Incentives?

OKRs are a proven system to enhance organizational efficiency and performance but for individuals, the matrix is more complex. Should OKRs be used to incentivize individuals? How can you do…

By Jeff Wellstead

September 21, 2018

Company News Strategy meets Execution

It’s a stampede!!!

For the past 3 years, we have been building Gtmhub, helping organisations large and small to align around inspiring objectives, take massive action and deliver measurable results. During this time,…

By Bo Pedersen

August 17, 2018

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

Avoid these 5 fail factors

Are you paying attention to your fail factors? There has been a lot of attention on the idea of North Star metrics, measuring what matters, and other ways of tracking…

By Bo Pedersen

August 8, 2018

Strategy meets Execution

How to win: Inspire, Act, Measure.

Every organisation we work with strives to perform better every day. They are on missions to change the world for the better, in their own unique ways. The people who…

By Bo Pedersen

August 2, 2018

Strategy meets Execution

Impressions from Saastr Europe

Gtmhub helps companies grow faster and deliver an awesome employee experience. To learn what other companies are doing to grow and build a world class culture, I attended Saastr Europa…

By Bo Pedersen

June 19, 2018

Strategy meets Execution

Scaling is about more than product

Investors love scalable businesses. Matt Clifford calls founders going through the company builder Entrepreneur First ‘scale seekers’.  Philosopher and mathematician Nassim Taleb introduced me to the concept of ‘convexity’. The…

By Bo Pedersen

June 18, 2018

Start with OKRs Strategy meets Execution

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…

By Bo Pedersen

June 11, 2018

Strategy meets Execution

What if we fire you all today?

Today I’ve talked with two different companies, which coincidently have the same problem. Namely, they’ve recently adopted OKRs and in each of these companies, there is a team being extremely…

By Ivan Osmak

May 15, 2018

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

Annual vs Quarterly OKRs

A common question we get is – should we set annual OKRs or quarterly OKRs? In this post, I am going to describe what we have found to work best…

By Ivan Osmak

March 6, 2018