by smerriam | Feb 15, 2023 | Blog
By Devon Brown & Daniel Montgomery While many organizations have incorporated or adopted OKRs as a powerful goal setting tool, OKRs’ use for individual goal setting, especially as part of a performance management system, has been contentious. There appear to be...
by Daniel Montgomery | Nov 29, 2018 | Blog
A client recently asked me for a list of “what could go wrong” as his company begins OKR implementation. Here’s what I shared with him: Confusing Outputs with Outcomes This is the #1 toughest lesson to learn, and easier said than done. An “output” is the completion...
by Daniel Montgomery | Oct 9, 2017 | Blog
At Agile Strategies we apply the lessons of both Agile software development and organizational learning to the whole enterprise, particularly the process of formulating and deploying strategy. Here are the guiding principles we work with: #1: Sense and respond An...
by Daniel Montgomery | Sep 25, 2017 | Blog
A few years back I took up cycling, after not having ridden a bike since I was in junior high school. Boy have things changed! I learned a principle I had never heard of back when I rode my 3-speed Schwinn Tiger to school. It’s called cadence. A modern bike is...
by Daniel Montgomery | Sep 18, 2017 | Blog
One of the key differences between the agile approach to strategy and traditional approaches is that time is treated as a scarce resource. Yes, business cases consider the so-called “time value of money” via discounted cash flows. Assuming that the discount rates...
