When we suggest launching OKR, they still look at us as if we said we’d come to the office in a self- driving car. Even though the concept is the same age as we are.
There are barely a dozen companies we know of where OKR functions well. On the other hand, we can proudly say we had something to do with at least half of them. OKR, also known as Objectives & Key Results is the best off-the-shelf framework in the market. Coupled with a good strategy, it can single-handedly pull your organization together, forge your culture into shape and set your company on a growth trend. It works with 30 people as well as with 3000. If it is put together correctly, it’ll survive CEO replacements. There’s one problem with it, though: you need to invest in it. Money
indeed, but rather time and energy.
Regardless if your company is in the service or production industry, 2 or 200 years old, if you feel the levels of your organization do not function in a sufficiently coordinated way, if there’s too much tension, if too many people feel like they don’t know what they’re doing there, if your employees complain they don’t know how their daily work relates to the whole, then that’s where your problem lies. If so, OKR could be a quick and great fix for your concerns. Of course, it doesn’t work unless you roll up your sleeves and put the effort in it, but we never said we were going to spare you the work. :)