Giant Talk – In conversation with Joshua Backer
In this week’s episode of Giant Talk – the world’s first OKR podcast, we talk to Joshua Backer of Unified. Unified are a social advertising technology and services company and were one of the earliest partners for Facebook, twitter, Snapchat, LinkedIn and Pinterest. Josh talks about his and Unified experience with OKRs and why they […]
Values and why it’s important not to simply stick them up on your wall
In today’s edition of Giant Talk – the world’s first OKR podcast we talk values and how Spiceworks of Austin, Texas have integrated values throughout their OKRs. Lawrence: Hi everybody. Welcome back to Giant Talk – The world’s first OKR podcast. This afternoon I am delighted to welcome Scott DiValerio from Spiceworks, based in Austin, […]
Talking OKRs down under
Today we talk to Emma Lo Russo of Digivizer all the way from Sydney Australia. Emma co-founded Digivizer in 2010 with her business partner Clinton Larson. In today’s podcast we talk about Digivizer, the growth of the company and OKRs in Australia. Lawrence: Morning everybody welcome back to Giant Talk – the world’s first OKR podcast. […]
Creating a culture where OKRs can thrive
Imagine you’re a middle manager in a large multi-national business which has an engineering focus. In fact, the business is one of the largest automotive manufacturers in the world. One day at work you receive a message from your CEO asking you to attend a meeting. You head off to the meeting and when you […]
So you read Measure What Matters and you gave OKRs a go. So, how do you avoid those soggy bottoms?
There’s no denying that Measure What Matters brought OKRs out of the geekdom of tech & software and into the mainstream and, for that alone, I would happily buy John Doerr a beer. 12 months on though, it’s fascinating to see the impact it has had on both the “OKR” marketplace and also for those […]
4 times OKRs rocked our client’s world – Part 2
We promised you part 2 and here it is. Aligning the growth strategy of Digital Bridge Fast growth can be quite destabilising, and this is exactly what Digital Bridge found. Following a period of sustained growth Digital Bridge – a guided design platform provider – needed a focus and a framework to ensure goals could […]
4 times OKRs rocked our client’s world – Part 1
We think OKRs are bloody awesome, so when we hear that our clients are feeling the love for OKRs too we know it’s going to be a good day! The Summer months have been fantastic and the There Be Giants team have been busy working with new businesses across the globe, guiding them through their […]
Podcast thoughts: OKRs & Agile Growth
Hi Everyone, Hope you’re looking forward to this week’s podcast. In it I am joined by the awesome RJ Macasaet COO of Ubiqum Code Academy. We discuss how OKRs & Agile link together and the interplay between them. RJ has been in the world of agile development for the last 15 years, so is well […]
What are OKRs?
OKR Meaning The meaning of OKRs is Objectives and Key Results. That’s it. You have your three word acronym. As a methodology, OKRs are an agile approach to motivating and managing performance in line with business strategy. Objectives and Key Results is a research-based methodology with its origins rooted deep in Silicon Valley. Despite beginning […]
OKR examples that will motivate you to grow your business
Looking at OKR examples will help you to improve your understanding of OKRs, whilst providing inspiration for your own business objectives. OKR examples showcase how OKRs work in practice and you can clearly see how they can be used to grow a business. Of course, not all examples of OKRs are useful and some won’t […]