Strategy Alignment & OKRs

Our Strategy Alignment & OKRs help you give the organization's execution the traction it needs to advance strategy and keep pace with change.

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Maximize the Strategic Impact of Your Organization's Execution

Strategic complexity and ambiguity get in the way of organizational momentum and adaptability. Many teams struggle to balance short-term pressures with long-term strategic objectives—how organizations define success. To be successful in today’s complex and unpredictable marketplace, leaders must effectively clarify their vision, clearly define what success looks like, determine how they will measure and achieve success, prioritize their limited resources, and align their team around their plan.

The McChrystal Group team was able to provide organization, structure and really the discipline we needed and did not have before…the results are very apparent and visible. We could not have had a better partner for this.”

Senior Executive, Telecommunications Company

STRATEGY ALIGNMENT

Align your organization on a shared set of strategic priorities, allowing for a more effective allocation of resources, and enabling the team to accomplish objectives and create value.

Our solutions are tailored for each client to ensure the senior leadership team is aligned on a common set of actionable strategies to cascade these and create lower-level team goals and initiatives. Bottom-up refinement and identification of horizontal and vertical dependencies are integral to our approach.

Integrating OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)
We incorporate OKRs into our strategy alignment process to ensure clear, measurable goals at all levels of the organization. This method fosters accountability and transparency, driving teams to focus on what truly matters and achieve significant results.

Key Benefits of OKRs in Strategy Alignment:

Clarity and Focus: Define clear objectives and measurable key results that align with the strategic priorities.
Alignment and Engagement: Ensure all team members understand how their efforts contribute to the broader goals.
Agility and Adaptability: Regularly review and adjust OKRs to respond to changes in the internal and external environment.

Our approach to execution features regular progress reviews for an organization’s ongoing initiatives on a rolling six-quarter cadence, allowing clients to assess changes in the internal and external operating environment and adapt the enterprise accordingly.

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CASE STUDY

Fortune 100 Pharma Company Uses Viva Goals to Turn Gen AI Strategy into Results

A global pharmaceutical company was embarking on a daunting and ambitious multi-year challenge for its departments: conduct more than 20 experiments across the organization to see how Gen AI could be leveraged to increase productivity and efficiency amounting to a billion dollars in savings per year, in turn freeing up valuable time for teams to pursue breakthroughs that change patients' lives.

Problem: The vision was there, but it needed to be paired with a framework that turned the plan into trackable goals.

Solution: Pair this audacious vision to leverage AI with a simple and easy-to-use goals management process. Enter Microsoft Viva Goals, a platform organizations can use to implement the OKR framework in their digital work environment.

Results:

By the end of Q2, estimated that the use cases resulted in savings exceeding $150 million
Hundreds of hours saved on goal tracking and workflow management through data automation
Vertical and horizontal transparency in goal setting

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