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Marketing OKRs – OKR Examples Marketing Departments

The nature of marketing work necessarily entails a much broader and less defined industry standard for the creation and maintenance of KPIs. Due to its highly subjective nature, marketing teams in various industries can have an overabundance of metrics...

Finance department OKRs – OKR examples

The OKR method has proven to be an extremely effective method for structuring and achieving goals since the 1970s - and its methodology is particularly useful for finance-related areas and departments. While in other areas and departments such as customer service or marketing, measurements are...

Why does my company need OKR?

This is often the first question we are asked by a potential customer who has no previous experience of OKRs. It sounds like another employee performance system or that they already get all their KPI values from their business intelligence systems. And why should they...

Operational OKRs – OKR examples

In today's article, we have provided you with some examples of OKRs that you could use in the operating departments in a top-down approach. The first example deals with an OKR in the area of workplace improvement, the second example presents an OKR in inventory...

Lean Startups vs. OKR – a comparison

OKRs are a fantastic way to manage startups. Why? Let's take a look at a comparison between OKR and the Lean Startup movement. The two methods complement each other wonderfully. Let's take a closer look at the five basic principles of the lean startup movement....

OKR Payoffs: The acronym FACTS

OKR payoffs can be expressed with the acronym FACTS: Focus, Alignment, Commitment, Tracking, Stretching. An important guideline when implementing OKRs is to limit the number of objectives to 3-4 per person and the number of key results to 2-5 per objective. This guideline was created...

Correctly reflect and reset OKRs

OKR is a way of life for companies. And just like in life, you need to check regularly to make sure you're still moving in the right direction. The practice of quarterly reflection helps them to do this. It allows you to...

Set OKRs – on the right side

The Objectives and Key Results (OKR) method, when used correctly, is an immensely powerful tool to lead an organization to important successes. However, the OKR software industry has evolved in such a way that companies often have to choose between solutions with different...

Define different OKR levels

We can define OKRs on four levels. Typically, there are several departments in every company. Sometimes there are also cross-functional teams that work on solving a specific problem. And of course there are employees who work in these different departments...

Why startups should use OKRs

Entrepreneurs set themselves "audacious goals" to change the world. They have crazy ideas and throw their money, their time and their lives behind these ideas. With their tireless efforts and perseverance, they create a solution to a problem and bring it to market. Have you...