Overview of the definitions of OKRs
| Authors | Definition | Emphasis |
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| Niven & Lamorte (2016) | “OKRs is a critical thinking framework and ongoing discipline that seeks to ensure employees work together, focusing their efforts to make measurable contributions that drive the company forward” (p. 6) |
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| Doerr (2018) | “It is a collaborative goal-setting protocol for companies, teams and individuals” (p. 18) |
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| Gothelf (2020) | “OKRs have become one of the most popular frameworks for teams looking to plan and measure the success of their work” (p. 1) |
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| Al Thinyan et al. (2022) | “OKR comprise a goal-setting framework that helps companies establish ‘objectives’ along with the measurable ‘key results’ that support the achievement of each objective” (p. 177) |
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| Wirl & Luge (2022) | “[OKRs are] a framework that not just helps to execute strategies in both ways—top-down and bottom-up—and to get better results, but also requires a new culture of leadership and collaboration” (p. 128) |
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| Authors | Definition | Emphasis |
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| “OKRs is a critical thinking framework and ongoing discipline that seeks to ensure employees work together, focusing their efforts to make measurable contributions that drive the company forward” (p. 6) | Long-term perspective Collaboration Focus | |
| “It is a collaborative goal-setting protocol for companies, teams and individuals” (p. 18) | Collaboration Goal setting | |
| “OKRs have become one of the most popular frameworks for teams looking to plan and measure the success of their work” (p. 1) | Reduction to teamwork | |
| “OKR comprise a goal-setting framework that helps companies establish ‘objectives’ along with the measurable ‘key results’ that support the achievement of each objective” (p. 177) | Goal setting Measurability | |
| “[OKRs are] a framework that not just helps to execute strategies in both ways—top-down and bottom-up—and to get better results, but also requires a new culture of leadership and collaboration” (p. 128) | Strategy execution Cultural shift in leadership Collaboration |
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