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Cross functional OKRs – breaking through the silos on the Death Star

by Roger Longden | Mar 21, 2019

Goals, OKRS

It almost seems a fact of life for businesses who scale: Growth means more people, more teams – even in this digital age where automation means greater efficiency. With this organisational expansion comes complexity and also a carving up of budgets and resources, and that…

OKRs demand you fail (in a smart way)

by Roger Longden | Mar 21, 2019

Goals, OKRS

OKRs are about driving growth, change and innovation So it might sound a bit contradictory to say that they also demand failure.  Well, some OKRs at least. If you have seen my blog on the right culture for OKRs, then you will have seen me…

Evolving your use of OKRs & gaining more from them

by Roger Longden | Feb 16, 2019

Goals, OKRS, Values

I recently had the opportunity to run “retros” (retrospectives) for a couple of our clients who had reached significant milestones in their use of OKRs.  Unfortunately, due to NDAs, I can’t name names but what I can say is they are both in business of…

Working with OKRs and Steamhaus

by Gill Arnott | Jan 22, 2019

OKRS

Our business is OKRs and there’s nothing more we like to talk about. When our clients start to love them as much as we do, and take the lead in popping a great article on their website, we know we’re doing something right! Steamhaus worked…

How to write effective OKRs for your business

by Roger Longden | Sep 02, 2018

OKRS

Getting started with a management strategy is always a major challenge. Coming up with a set of objectives and key results (OKRs) is no exception to this. In fact, if you think OKRs will be a piece of cake, you’re likely to fall at the…

The Eight Features of OKR Software

by Roger Longden | Jul 31, 2018

OKRS, software

Before we launch into this subject I want to take a couple of steps back. What are OKRs? If we don’t understand this we can’t really make an informed decision as to the most appropriate OKR software. If you’re not familiar with the methodology then…