OKR University
OKRs and EOS: What’s the difference?
As you go explore the entrepreneurial and professional working world, you’ll begin to come across important key phrases and concepts. Two key terms that are...
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OKR vs Balanced Scorecard – What’s the difference
Businesses are established with one thing in mind: growth. All companies-- whether they are large enterprises or garage start-ups-- strive to expand their business and...
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OKR vs MBO: Differences and Similarities in Goal-Setting Techniques
Introduction A performance evaluation is an opportunity for a company to discuss their performance goals and organizational priorities. The most significant advantage of performance reviews...
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What Next?: 4 Steps for a More Effective OKR Reflect and Reset
Setting your OKRs on a quarterly basis gives you a lot of advantages when it comes to continuous improvement. Teams that use the OKR framework...
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How do you Set Quality Key Results?
Key Results are the targets and outcomes used to measure the success of your quality objectives. Good key results provide indisputable evidence that you and...
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How do you Set Quality Objectives?
Setting the right, high-quality objectives can be an intimidating task to undertake. Ensuring you’re capturing the highest priorities of your company and translating them into...
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Why Quality Trumps Quantity for OKRs
Over the last few decades, interest in and use of OKRs has skyrocketed. Objectives and Key Results originated at Intel, with Andy Grove and John...
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Solving Unbalanced Progress: Sales Department Imbalance
Even when we do everything right when setting our OKRs and getting started with our OKR quarter, we can still face issues with progress. The...
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Solving Unbalanced Progress: Marketing Department Imbalance
At times, your radar chart doesn’t indicate you’re progressing as you might have hoped. Instead, it might present unbalanced progress on your OKRs. While this...
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Solving Unbalanced progress at the corporate level
Knowing the potential reasons behind unbalanced progress can be helpful in identifying issues that are holding your business back. In this article, we’re going to...
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16 Reasons your OKR Progress is Unbalanced
Even when you take all the right steps to roll out your OKR program, there are times when issues might still come up when it...
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Unbalanced OKR Progress: What’s Going Wrong?
If you have been researching the OKR framework, you may have heard that the ideal number of objectives and their corresponding key results is between...
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Getting Started with OKRs
While everyone prepares for their OKR programs differently, chances are you have done a few things. Perhaps you’ve read literature on OKRs and have prepared...
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What is my organization capable of achieving?
Organizations and individuals have capabilities and capacities. Capability is cultivated ability. Capacity is strictly a time constraint, but obviously due to the difference in capabilities,...
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3 keys to a successful marketing campaign
“I’m spending so much time and money on marketing, but I’m not getting sales. What am I doing wrong?” This is a common question most...
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How do you Institutionalize Learning?
What is Organizational Learning and why is it important? “In less than 15 years, one-third of the fortune 500 companies have disappeared, and the average...
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Visible signs to show a healthy and mature OKR program
Based on your organization's unique DNA, you can prepare yourself to plan how to get started with OKRs, the important thing is to get started....
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Objective Ownership
In Profit.co, you can assign owners to objectives and key results. There is a subtle, but important difference between the two. Objective level ownership indicates...
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What does your OKR quarter look like?
An OKR quarter can be pretty well structured when you have a very mature OKR program. Mature OKR program clearly implies that you are not...
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What are the approaches to choosing your OKR levels?
What are OKR Levels? We can set OKRs at four levels. Typically in every company, you have multiple departments and sometimes you have cross-functional teams,...
Read moreWhen and how do you automate check ins?
Check-ins are an integral part of the OKR process. Profit.co has distinctly designed the OKR software with an automated check-ins option that would help you...
Read moreHow do you straddle between top down and bottom up alignments?
Alignment is one of the key pillars of the OKR philosophy. Organizations achieve alignment both using a top-down approach and a bottom-up approach. We have...
Read moreHow do you get started with OKRs?
The best way to get started with your OKR program is to actually get started. You will have different combinations of culture, style, processes, and...
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What are OKRs?
OKRs – The Bridge between Strategy and Achievement of Goals: We are sure that you have read a lot about the importance of Strategy and...
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When the CHRO became the Hero
HR in the Integrating role Most people choose HR as a career with noble intentions. They truly believed in a higher calling, they wanted to...
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Why using Spreadsheets to manage OKRs is not a Scalable Solution?
Recently, I had a chance to talk to one of our customers about his company’s experience with Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). This is a...
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What does success look like?
Before you embark on your quest to steer your organization towards sustained success, knowing and defining what success looks like is important. So, what does...
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What is iterative business execution?
It's the iteration of hypothesis changes & measurement that makes you better than faster than anything else we've seen.Gabe Newell CEO, Valve We’ve heard this...
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Twenty red flags that could derail your OKR implementation
Introduction Profit has this unique PEEL approach to implementing OKRs, which stands for plan, execute, engage, and learn, and then cycles back to plan. We...
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How do I prioritize OKRs?
Prioritizing Objectives Albert Einstein once said, “If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and...
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PEEL approach to OKRs
While committing to the OKR methodology is a great first step to achieving your goals, it isn’t a magic quick-fix for businesses. The OKR framework...
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How can businesses adopt OKRs successfully?
Many experts say that software contributes to roughly 20-25% of the overall OKR program's success. There are many other factors that determine the successful rollout...
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Top 4 ways OKRs can be used by HR Department
In the 2020 new normal, every successful business organization can be visualized as a dense network of empowered teams that are distributed geographically and still...
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Why Startups should use OKRs?
The startup ecosystem has come a long way in recent years. In India alone, an average of 1300 startups are registered every year, 70% of...
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How do you ensure that your key results are the right ones?
Let's take an example and try to understand if the key results you’ve come up with are really the right ones. In this example, we...
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Move from percentage tracked to KPI based key results
When getting started with OKRs, the biggest challenge you face is how to define a good OKR. Defining an Objective, the “what do you want...
Read moreWhat are the approaches to grading OKRs in Profit.co?
Why grade OKRs? OKR grading is actually a step or a precursor towards your end of quarter reflection, which is a major exercise as part...
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Approaches to choosing the appropriate OKR levels
OKR Rollout Options One of the most important decisions to make while launching your OKR program is to decide specifically at what level you choose...
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Simple approaches to alignment
Aligning your OKRs is an important component of achieving an effective OKR, and Profit.co makes this process as seamless as possible. Profit.co allows you to...
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Daily OKRs
Generally, OKRs are recommended for strategic and really important initiatives that move the business forward. When a well respected OKR consultant, Mr.L., was talking about...
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Key Result Weights
Why weighted key results? Typically, 3-5 key results are defined to measure the achievement of the objective. These key results’ progress influence objective attainment. However,...
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Percent KPI
Question: How do I create a % KPI that I can set the start and end values for? Currently, it only operates as 0 to...
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Be on the Right
Objectives and Key Results Software (OKR), when correctly deployed, is an immensely powerful tool for guiding an organization towards its critical successes. However, the way...
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OKR Levels
What are OKR Levels? We can set OKRs at four levels. Typically in every company, you have multiple departments and sometimes you have cross functional...
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Are OKRs replacing KPIs?
No, OKRs do not replace KPIs. Simply put, they serve different purposes and cannot replace each other. We’ve already documented the difference between OKRs and...
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Why should startups embrace OKRs?
Entrepreneurs set audacious goals to change the world. They have crazy ideas, throw their money, time, and their life behind those crazy ideas. With their...
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Reflect/Reset in the OKR world
OKR is a way of life in business. As in life, you need periodic checks to make sure you are marching in the right direction....
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OKRs Vs. Lean Startup Methodology
OKRs are an amazing way to manage startups. How so? Well, let’s actually take OKRs and compare with the lean startup movement, to see how...
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What is the difference between OKRs and Performance Management?
Looking at the wide use of OKRs in business today, it’s clear to see that this goal management tool is as relevant today as it...
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OKR Payoffs
Good OKR programs in any company can win a competitive advantage for the company in its own way, one of the main reasons being intense...
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OKR reviews using the Progress, Plans, and Problems (PPP) methodology
Managers need a reliable method for syncing up with their teams to maintain forward momentum and productivity, no matter how large or small their company...
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Operations OKRs
Let’s examine a few examples of how operations departments can utilize OKR from the top down. Example 1: Work Environment Objective: Improve the office’s workspace...
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Finance OKR Examples
The OKR method has been proving a highly effective way to structure and achieve objectives since the 70s — and its methodology is particularly useful...
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Marketing OKRs
The nature of marketing work necessarily entails a much broader and less defined industry standard for establishing and maintaining KPIs. Due to its highly subjective...
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Engineering OKRs
The main duty of the engineering team is to lean, focus and spread knowledge over a series of technology and services, by striving hard to...
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Sales OKRs
OKR can be a powerful tool for sales teams to achieve better turnout and higher productivity than you thought possible. It serves as a convenient...
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Implementing Your OKR
Step 1: Familiarize yourself with OKR Defining an OKR is easy, Objectives and Key Results, or OKRs in short, is a rigorous goal setting and...
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Preparing for OKR
In the right hands, OKRs can be the most effective goal management tool that can help you track your performance with measurable KPIs to let...
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OKRs vs KPIs
In our discussions with many OKR enthusiasts and prospects, this is one of the most frequently asked questions. Typical follow up questions are:
Read moreWhat exactly is an OKR?
OKR Meaning: So, what is an OKR? In simple terms the acronym stands for “Objectives and Key Results”. In more detail an OKR can be...
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