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Best practices around how to set up goals if you are a large parent company
Hello together,
Viva Goals has been with us for some time now and is being introduced in small and large projects. At this point, many pilot projects will be completed. Therefore, I would like to start a discussion today, which procedures and experiences you have made. By large organizations, I mean organizations with at least a 5-digit headcount.
Some points we have learned from our experiences..
- In large organizations a strong sponsor is even more important than usual. Preferably C-Level. COO, CIO, CFO,...
- Pilots are of course important. We have made the experience that if you start at different places in the organization at middle management level, it will be more difficult to do an alignment afterwards.
- Organizations should last at least three quarters. At the end of the second, the dropout rate is highest.
- OKR check ins and other events should become part of existing meetings as soon as possible.
- We are prepared to change the team structure in Goals after 2 or 3 quarters. Often you start with the organizational structure, later you align by topics, or cross-functional.
What experiences have you had?
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- I’d be interested to hear experiences with using different organisations in Goals in the same tenant. I have heard that many look to break up into different orgs by department or region but this seems a break with the full alignment and transparency that would be ideal. Is this driven by performance, permissions or manageability?
