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Product Updates

Aggregated OKR attainment

In the latest release of Gtmhub, we have added a highly requested feature – aggregated OKR attainment. This new metric shows the cumulative attainment of an OKR and all of…

By Ivan Osmak

May 3, 2017

Product Updates

Improved user management

The latest release of Gtmhub brings enhanced user management. The new features and UX improvements aim to simplify the user management for customers with large number of users.

By Ivan Osmak

April 26, 2017

Product Updates

Objective timeline: Everything that ever happened to an OKR

The new timeline view for an objective is one of the new features of Gtmhub. Timeline now tracks all the changes that happened to an OKR since it was created, giving…

By Ivan Osmak

April 21, 2017

Product Updates

Organizing OKRs into initiatives and areas

With the latest release of Gtmhub, we now support tags for Objectives. While, alignment remains the main way to organize and make sense of OKRs within an organization, we have…

By Ivan Osmak

April 20, 2017

Strategy meets Execution

Leading and lagging indicators

Cause and effect is a well-established principle, even if we sometimes confuse causation and correlation (see divorce / margarine correlation). For most companies, the main measures of performance are the…

By Bo Pedersen

April 12, 2017

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

Common OKR Mistakes – A Summary

Getting OKRs right is difficult. Although simple in construct, OKRs require commitment, discipline and have wide ranging and transformative ramifications at every level of the organization. Below are some of…

By Bo Pedersen

April 3, 2017

Product Updates

OKR confidence level setting

One of the key ideas of OKRs is communication around progress. So far, Gtmhub has been automatically calculating progress and juxtaposing it with the time passed in order to determine…

By Ivan Osmak

March 21, 2017

Product Updates

OKR statistics drill-down

Today we have released an improvement for Gtmhub statistics view which now let’s your drill down in various areas of your OKRs process. You can now easily see the list…

By Ivan Osmak

March 15, 2017

OKR Insights

Start planning your Q2 OKRs now

Bottom Line: Start planning your Q2 OKRs well ahead of the end of Q1 in order to ensure that you’re in a good place to kick off Q2. Communicate Communicate…

By Bo Pedersen

March 14, 2017

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

The Balanced Scorecard, Strategy Maps, and OKRs

Bottom Line: If you’re working with OKRs, you may find it useful to think about the Balanced Scorecard perspectives when setting OKRs. Which Balanced Scorecard perspectives, or categories are you supporting with…

By Bo Pedersen

March 6, 2017

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

Don’t use KPIs as your Objectives (and Fluffy is OK)

Bottom Line One of the hardest things when you’re getting started with Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is to set good OKRs. We’re all used to caring a lot about…

By Bo Pedersen

March 3, 2017

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

Common OKRs mistakes: Everyday work as OKRs

One thing we notice with a lot of organizations that just start out with OKRs is that many people just enter their everyday work as Objectives. For example, a digital…

By Ivan Osmak

February 6, 2017

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

OKRs in the age of Agile: Engineering perspective

Approximately once per week someone asks us how do OKRs fit with agile product teams and do they even fit at all. There is a great article written by Felipe Castro that…

By Ivan Osmak

January 31, 2017

Product Updates

Key results with soft and hard deadlines

A customer recently told us following case: “My objectives are all product related and timing is everything. For this quarter I need to improve the user engagement and to do…

By Ivan Osmak

January 29, 2017

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

Setting OKRs for the Marketing Team

Bottom Line Setting OKRs for marketing is made harder by the multitude or absence of meaningful metrics or KPIs. Marketers should set objectives informed by higher level company goals, and…

By Bo Pedersen

January 25, 2017

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

Setting OKRs for the sales team

Bottom Line: When setting OKRs for the sales team, DON’T focus on the number. Instead, set objectives for the performance drivers, activity, process, method, aptitude, and attitude.

By Bo Pedersen

January 21, 2017

Product Updates

Bookmarks, emojis and common sense

With today’s update to Gtmhub we’ve added few things to make your everyday work in Gtmhub more pleasant. This release has focused completely on the user experience aspect of Gtmhub.

By Ivan Osmak

January 19, 2017

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

Common OKR mistakes: Too many objectives

First in our series of blog posts dealing with common pitfalls of implementing OKRs in an organization is the one of setting too many objectives. It is advised that no person…

By Ivan Osmak

January 18, 2017

Product Updates

When timing matters: Time framed KRs

Sometimes just setting a goal and metrics, an objective and key results it’s not enough. Sometimes timing matters – especially if your OKRs implementation is flavored with a pinch of…

By Jordan Angelov

January 16, 2017

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

Who should own OKRs: person, team or both?

One of the first questions you may face when you decide to implement OKRs in your organization is who exactly should own OKRs: employee, team (under team, we also understand…

By Ivan Osmak

January 11, 2017

Product Updates

Looking at OKRs from people perspective

There are two ways to use OKRs. From one side, we can look at the objectives and how well are they being executed. On the other side, we can look at…

By Ivan Osmak

January 9, 2017