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What are Business Plan Development OKRs?
The OKR acronym stands for Objectives and Key Results. It's a goal-setting framework that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s, and it became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s. OKRs helps teams has a shared language to set ambitious goals and track progress towards them.
Formulating strong OKRs can be a complex endeavor, particularly for first-timers. Prioritizing outcomes over projects is crucial when developing your plans.
We've tailored a list of OKRs examples for Business Plan Development to help you. You can look at any of the templates below to get some inspiration for your own goals.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.
The best tools for writing perfect Business Plan Development OKRs
Here are 2 tools that can help you draft your OKRs in no time.
Tability AI: to generate OKRs based on a prompt
Tability AI allows you to describe your goals in a prompt, and generate a fully editable OKR template in seconds.
- 1. Create a Tability account
- 2. Click on the Generate goals using AI
- 3. Describe your goals in a prompt
- 4. Get your fully editable OKR template
- 5. Publish to start tracking progress and get automated OKR dashboards
Watch the video below to see it in action 👇
Tability Feedback: to improve existing OKRs
You can use Tability's AI feedback to improve your OKRs if you already have existing goals.
- 1. Create your Tability account
- 2. Add your existing OKRs (you can import them from a spreadsheet)
- 3. Click on Generate analysis
- 4. Review the suggestions and decide to accept or dismiss them
- 5. Publish to start tracking progress and get automated OKR dashboards
Tability will scan your OKRs and offer different suggestions to improve them. This can range from a small rewrite of a statement to make it clearer to a complete rewrite of the entire OKR.
Business Plan Development OKRs examples
You'll find below a list of Objectives and Key Results templates for Business Plan Development. We also included strategic projects for each template to make it easier to understand the difference between key results and projects.
Hope you'll find this helpful!
OKRs to launch a viable startup in the tech industry
ObjectiveLaunch a viable startup in the tech industry
KRHire a core team of five professionals in tech, marketing, and operations
Identify required skills and experience for each job role- Schedule and conduct potential candidate interviews
- Post job vacancies on suitable recruitment platforms
- KRFinalize business plan with a detailed financial projection
- Review and refine existing business model assumptions
- Develop comprehensive profit and loss projections
- Incorporate relevant market research into the plan
- KRSecure investment from at least three different sources for initial capital
- Research and identify potential investors
- Conduct pitching sessions to these investors
- Create a compelling business plan
OKRs to formulate and Implement a robust Business and Product Strategy
- ObjectiveFormulate and Implement a robust Business and Product Strategy
- KRImplement and test product strategy with a minimum viable product in 6 weeks
- Develop a prototype of the minimum viable product
- Implement a detailed product strategy
- Conduct rigorous testing and gather feedback
- KRDevelop a comprehensive business strategy with measurable goals within 3 weeks
- Draft a comprehensive, strategic business plan
- Define measurable, time-bound business goals
- Research market trends and study competitors for business strategy formulation
- KRIdentify and analyse 5 key competitor business strategies within next quarter
- Identify 5 main competitors in the market
- Analyze each strategy's effectiveness and performance
- Research and note down their business strategies
OKRs to make business travel process fully digital
- ObjectiveMake business travel process fully digital
- KRIdentify and list all paper-dependent tasks in business travel by end of week 1
- Survey team members about paper-dependent tasks in business travel
- Research common paper-dependent tasks in corporate travel
- Compile list of identified paper-dependent travel tasks by end of week 1
- KRDesign and implement a digital solution for identified tasks within week 5
- Identify specific tasks requiring digital solution during week 5
- Sketch out a basic design for the digital solution
- Begin implementing the devised digital solution
- KRAchieve 95% employee adoption of the new digital process in trial phase
- Offer incentives for early adopters in trial phase
- Conduct informative training sessions on new digital process
- Seek feedback and troubleshoot issues quickly
OKRs to enhance strategic alignment across the organization towards business goals
- ObjectiveEnhance strategic alignment across the organization towards business goals
- KRIncrease strategic goal awareness by conducting 3 cross-departmental workshops
- Communicate workshop details to all departments
- Identify appropriate workshop topics that align with strategic goals
- Plan and schedule cross-departmental workshops
- KRImplement a responsive tracking system for goal assessment and adjustment
- Test implementation and adjust accordingly
- Develop framework based on research findings
- Research various existing goal tracking systems
- KRAchieve 20% improvement in goal alignment as assessed by year-end staff survey
- Initiate feedback sessions after each project completion
- Implement regular alignment check-ins between teams and management
- Conduct workshops on effective goal setting and alignment strategies
Business Plan Development OKR best practices
Generally speaking, your objectives should be ambitious yet achievable, and your key results should be measurable and time-bound (using the SMART framework can be helpful). It is also recommended to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.
Here are a couple of best practices extracted from our OKR implementation guide 👇
Tip #1: Limit the number of key results
Focus can only be achieve by limiting the number of competing priorities. It is crucial that you take the time to identify where you need to move the needle, and avoid adding business-as-usual activities to your OKRs.
We recommend having 3-4 objectives, and 3-4 key results per objective. A platform like Tability can run audits on your data to help you identify the plans that have too many goals.
Tip #2: Commit to weekly OKR check-ins
Having good goals is only half the effort. You'll get significant more value from your OKRs if you commit to a weekly check-in process.
Being able to see trends for your key results will also keep yourself honest.
Tip #3: No more than 2 yellow statuses in a row
Yes, this is another tip for goal-tracking instead of goal-setting (but you'll get plenty of OKR examples above). But, once you have your goals defined, it will be your ability to keep the right sense of urgency that will make the difference.
As a rule of thumb, it's best to avoid having more than 2 yellow/at risk statuses in a row.
Make a call on the 3rd update. You should be either back on track, or off track. This sounds harsh but it's the best way to signal risks early enough to fix things.
Save hours with automated OKR dashboards
OKRs without regular progress updates are just KPIs. You'll need to update progress on your OKRs every week to get the full benefits from the framework. Reviewing progress periodically has several advantages:
- It brings the goals back to the top of the mind
- It will highlight poorly set OKRs
- It will surface execution risks
- It improves transparency and accountability
We recommend using a spreadsheet for your first OKRs cycle. You'll need to get familiar with the scoring and tracking first. Then, you can scale your OKRs process by using Tability to save time with automated OKR dashboards, data connectors, and actionable insights.
How to get Tability dashboards:
- 1. Create a Tability account
- 2. Use the importers to add your OKRs (works with any spreadsheet or doc)
- 3. Publish your OKR plan
That's it! Tability will instantly get access to 10+ dashboards to monitor progress, visualise trends, and identify risks early.
More Business Plan Development OKR templates
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