While organizations and startups may have heard about OKRs, most of them are probably new to this kind of organizational and management concept. Considered to be the father of management science, OKRs were first introduced by Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel. He...
Static strategy docs and top-down comms is so old school! “The strategy consultants come in, do their work, and document the new strategy in a PowerPoint presentation and a weighty report. Town hall meetings are organized, employees are told to change their behavior,...
strategy should be constantly evolving – not static or annual. This article on evolving strategy as you learn, goes to the heart of #stratapp. We wholeheartedly agree and go further to say that strategy should be given a heartbeat, freed from static documents that are...
How to achieve strategic alignment at all levels, roles and generations. “All too often, individual leaders seek — indeed are incentivized — to protect and optimize their own domains, and find themselves locked in energy-sapping internal turf wars, rather than working...
Since 2018 there has been a plethora of single-use-apps for OKRs. The good ones have pretty much the same approach and functionality. #stratapp takes OKRs to a whole new level, because #stratapp is not a single-use-OKR-app. There are 3 reasons why #stratapp is the...
We have condensed six good books into 17 words to articulate the difference: If you are curious to read the six books: Good Strategy | Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt - must read Measure What Matters by John Doerr (who worked with Andy Grove and Google) - must read...
how many OKR objectives? We admire the real world explanation in this video by Vivino’s founder, Heini Zachariassen. As much as we admire the approach of Vivino, most organizations will cascade OKRs to most if not all leaders in the organization. We've found 3 to 8...
If you hear this from a CEO or CxO role: “Yes, our employees are doing OKRs”, you might want to short-the-stock as their OKR implementation will most likely fail. OKRs are brilliant for strategy execution. However, to be successful you need to start your OKR...
OKRs don’t #1 Don’t start with OKRs. Start with the strategy tree and your leadership team. NB - after reading this article, watch this short video to learn about the leadership cycle and strategy tree. OKRs don’t #2 Don’t stop evolving your strategy whilst executing...