OKRs for all : making objectives and key results work across your organization / Vetri Vellore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vellore, Vetri, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management by objectives.

Strategic planning.

Goal setting in personnel management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages)

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2022]

Summary:

"The Objectives and Key Results (OKR) framework is gaining popularity and has helped some of the world's most successful businesses find a solution to their strategic execution problems. Many businesses are moving to implement the framework popularized by John Doerr's Measure What Matters, but most don't actually know how to use it. They often use OKR's as top-down directives to be revisited once or twice a quarter. That changes little, and continues to let goals, data, projects, tactics become fractured by disparate tech stacks, preferences, and siloed departments just like before. To make a real impact, OKR's should be the tool that guides the decision-making of every team on a daily basis, not just quarterly at an executive level. This book will explain how to make that happen. It will guide senior leaders in designing and rolling out an OKR system from the bottom of their organization up, and help managers and teams organize their daily decision-making around those shared goals. We'll share case studies from companies you know and love, best practices, and pitfalls to avoid. We'll outline how they do it, sharing the seven-part blueprint for a strategic execution framework that puts purpose at the center of everything, and giving you the playbook to put it into action. The result will an organization united in strategic execution with teams that are more engaged and working in parallel. And the results will show on the bottom line."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Introduction

Why Now?

Creating Purpose-Driven Work for Every Employee

Building Cathedrals with OKRs

Who Is This Book For?

How This Book Is Organized

Part I OKR Foundations

Chapter 1 Core Concepts: What Are OKRs?

What Do OKRs Do?

OKR Basics: Objectives, Key Results, and Key Initiatives

How Objectives, Key Results, and Key Initiatives Fit Together

How OKRs Flow Through an Organization

Chapter 2 Why OKRs?

Using OKRs to Solve Modern Business Challenges

The Importance of Visibility and Alignment

Accelerate Business Growth

Chapter 3 The History and Evolution of OKRs

OKRs: A Timeline

OKR 1.0 "The Manual Era"

OKR 2.0 "OKR Software V1"

OKR 3.0 "Era of Connected Software"

The Future of OKRs

Chapter 4 OKR Misconceptions, Mistakes, and Myths

OKRs Are Only About Measurement

OKRs Are Only for Leadership

Common Misconception: OKRs Can Be Used Directly to Assess an Individual's Performance

OKR Is a Rigid, All or Nothing Methodology

OKRs Work Only for High-Tech or High-Growth Organizations

OKRs Are a System of Control for Teams

OKRs and KPIs Are Interchangeable

Part II Applying OKR Principles

Chapter 5 Defining Your Objectives

Make Your Objectives Time-Bound

Start with the "Why"

Objectives Should Create Focus

Objectives Should Inspire

Committed and Aspirational Objectives

Objectives Should Create Balance

What Does a Good Objective Statement Look Like?

Chapter 6 Defining Your Key Results

Key Results Should Create Clarity

Outcomes over Outputs

What Does a Good Key Result Look Like?

Committed and Aspirational Key Results

The Process of Defining Key Results

Perform the Necessary and Sufficient Test

Chapter 7 Defining Your Key Initiatives

Key Initiatives Should Create Context.

Key Initiatives in Practice

Chapter 8 Aligning and Cascading Your OKRs

The Right Number of Levels

Choosing Your Cascading Method

Aligning Across Departments and Teams

Team Alignment

Cross-Functional Alignment

Chapter 9 Writing OKRs: An Interactive Team Workshop

Pre-Workshop Checklist

Workshop Timeline

Chapter 10 The Most Common Questions About OKRs (and Their Answers)

What If We Don't Reach 100% of Our Goals?

We Use Agile-Why Do We Need OKRs?

Chapter 11 Staying Focused and Tracking Progress

Scoring OKRs

Reporting and Asynchronous Communication

Asynchronous Communication and Dashboarding

Sharing Your Progress, Plan, and Problems

KPIs

Project Plan

Chapter 12 Wrapping Up and Reflecting on OKRs

Rules for Reflection

Chapter 13 Company OKRs

What Are Good Company OKRs?

Annual Company-Level OKR Examples

Quarterly Company-Level OKR Examples

Chapter 14 OKRs for Each Department

The Strategy and Operations Team

The Product Team

The Human Resources Team

The Sales Team

The Marketing Team

The Customer Success Team

Part III Running the Business with OKRs

Chapter 15 Expect and Prepare for a Challenge

OKR Rhythm Fundamentals: The Three Cs: Create, Check-In, Close

Chapter 16 Key Business Rhythm: Annual Planning

Key Business Rhythm: One to Three Months Before the Start of Next Year

Key Business Rhythm: One Month Prior to the New Year

Key Business Rhythm: The First Week of the New Year

Chapter 17 Key Business Rhythm: Quarterly OKR Planning

End-of-Quarter OKR Scoring and Reflections

Chapter 18 Key Business Rhythm: Monthly OKR Reviews

Chapter 19 Key Business Rhythm: Weekly Team Meetings

Chapter 20 Key Business Rhythm: 1:1 Meetings

Chapter 21 FAQs for OKR Check-Ins

Part IV Getting Started with OKRs.

Chapter 22 Key Roles in Getting Started with OKRs

Executive Sponsor

OKR Champion

Team Manager

Individual Employees

The Human Resources Leader

Optional Role: Admin/IT

Chapter 23 A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Started with OKRs

Step 1: Getting Started with the OKR Maturity Model

Step 2: Understand the Phases of OKR Rollout

Step 3: Put Together Your Project Plan and Communication Plan

Step 4: Coach Your Group on Developing Great OKRs

Step 5: Integrate OKRs into Your Business Rhythms

Brainstorming Exercise: Assess Your Current Rhythm

Building Out Your OKR Rhythm

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Vellore, Vetri OKRs for All

ISBN:

9781119811626

1119811627

OCLC:

1316703090