Managing people is mostly about aligning their objectives with objectives of the organization. Because these two tend to be very different, and often even mutually exclusive, things often go wrong. This list is in no way complete or even exhaustive, but it does illustrate why management is hard – and why we’ve been looking for

We have released several small improvements to Gtmhub data platform, based on the feedback that we’ve been receiving from our customers. Together, these improvements are aiming to make it even easier to work with insights and dynamic OKRs.

When people first learn about OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), a lot of times they’ll be confused how are OKRs different from KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). Admittedly, there are certain similarities between the two concepts. Two quick examples Before we start comparing the two, let us briefly examine two examples. OKRs Objective: Shorten sales lifecycle

Today, we have released a Trello connector for Gtmhub. Gtmhub is, as you probably know, a software which connects to over 100 business systems and automatically extracts and updates your OKRs based on the data already available in those systems. Why a Trello connector? People have come to use Trello for a lot’s of different

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

For over two years, we have been pursuing our mission of allowing organizations to drive performance in real-time. To do that, we knew that we need to enable following: An easy and intuitive way to set and manage OKRs Connect key results to live data coming from existing business systems (think Salesforce, JIRA, Google Analytics,

Earlier this week, we announced one big addition to the way you can manage your OKRs process within the organization – Private OKRs and planning sessions. The perpetual effort for improvement of our product never stops, so I would like to share a few more tiny improvements, that make the user experience even better. Here is

Today we have released a new feature, highly requested by our enterprise customers: the ability to define permissions on planning sessions. First, the context Planning sessions in Gtmhub allow you to group your OKRs and define the time period in which they are to be achieved (e.g. from January 1st, 2018 to March 31st, 2018).

Just last week we’ve released Gtmhub for iPhone. This week we are announcing Gtmhub for Android. With the first release, we have taken the most common use cases mobile. Progress in real time, anywhere With the new companion mobile app for Android, you can track the company progress and your personal progress at any time

It is our pleasure to announce that Gtmhub is now available on iPhone. With the first release, we have taken the most common use cases mobile. Progress in real time, anywhere With the new companion mobile app for iPhone, you can track the company progress and your personal progress at any time on your iPhone.

Someone famously said that – In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. This November, we are organizing an OKR Masterclass in Berlin that is going to test this quote. Whereas last year in London, we focused on basics of OKRs and general theory, this year in Berlin we are

In 2012, Adobe announced it would abandon annual performance reviews. Since then, many organizations followed suit: Microsoft, Dell, Deloitte… among others. When announcing such plans, organizations often say that annual performance reviews are a “waste of time”, “cause stress” and in general are “obsolete”.

Building a messaging app, such as WhatsApp is trivial – unless you plan on having billion users. Making a cup of coffee is simple – but not if you are Starbucks. Understanding distances is simple – until we start talking systems and galaxies. Scale changes not only the quantity – but also the quality of

Often, teams will have similar OKRs between quarters. A team may pursue same objectives for 2-3 quarters in a row and the only thing that changes is the KRs (key results). At Gtmhub, we are providing the world’s simplest software for adopting and managing OKRs. To live up to this promise, often it comes down

The point of setting goals is to achieve them. When companies decide to implement OKRs, it is because they want to achieve meaningful objectives at a scale.

Chargebee is a very popular SaaS billing service. Chargebee provides you with everything to manage subscriptions, recurring payments, invoicing and everything else related to SaaS billing. Today, we have released a connector for Chargebee which allows you to create OKRs which are linked to live KPIs coming from Chargebee. Use cases OKRs related to business

Bottom Line Organizations will achieve the greatest overall performance boost by taking a holistic approach to Insights, Goals, and Effort. Insights keep you on top of what matters Goals define direction and alignment Priority Tasks link Goals to Effort to increase the likelihood of success Insight without appropriate action is a wasted opportunity. Gtmhub is

We have just released a new connector for Freshdesk, a popular customer support software and ticketing system. Similar, to our existing connector for ZenDesk, FreshDesk connector can be used to attach live KPIs, such as number of open tickets, average response time or number of high priority tickets to an objective in Gtmhub. Use case

Many of the Gtmhub users are developers. Often, when just starting out with OKRs, teams wonder how OKRs work with agile. Here is the way we think about it: Objective: What we want to achieve? Key results: How are we going to measure success? Tasks: What are we going to do about it? Task is

What is MRR? MRR or Monthly Recurring Revenue is a KPI specific for SaaS (Software as a Service) businesses. In SaaS business model, customers pay regular (typically monthly) subscription for a software, as opposed buying it at once. MRR may seem deceptively simple as a KPI, but there are many nuances to it that we