Apr 05 2023 09:17 AM - last edited on Sep 15 2023 09:35 AM by EmilyPerina
Many organisations have set up existing KPIs that help them to track the state of key measures across their organisation, with these either being transparent to all or shared at regular townhalls. The temptation would be to use these in their entirety within Viva Goals to power the key results of your OKRs but that would be a mistake. One of the super powers of OKRs is to have Focus and to share that Focus from the strategy of the organisation at the top down to each level. Empowering each layer in an organisation to define their own metrics for success for the top level objective brings a more personal goal that is aligned to what the organisation is striving to achieve.
You can read more about my thoughts on this in a recent article I shared through Reworked - Why You Need Both OKRs and KPIs (reworked.co).
What have you done in your organisation
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@Kevin McDonnell Thank you for your post! I agree that it should be OKRs AND KPIs instead of or. One practice that I usually do with customers is to have them list their KPIs first, and then from the KPIs ask the questions of "which one(s) are you intentionally going to make an impact this quarter?" "which one(s) of these metrics will tell you what success looks like this quarter?". I found that it is easier to then highlight (and focus).
I found Felipe Castro's analogy of the car as helpful https://felipecastro.com/en/blog/okr-vs-kpis/ as it gives customers the assurance that KPIs are not to be ignored if they are not a KR for the quarter, but should be an indicator of health.
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