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OKR

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

/ˌoʊ keɪ ˈɑːr/abbreviationCommon term

In management & leadership, OKR means: Short for objectives and key results: a goal-setting method in which each ambitious objective is paired with a few measurable key results that show whether it was achieved.

In Turkish: amaçlar ve anahtar sonuçlar, hedefler ve temel sonuçlar

How it is used

Developed at Intel and made popular by Google and other technology companies. Teams usually set OKRs every quarter and score them at the end. People talk about setting, cascading and reviewing OKRs.

Example sentences

  1. One of our OKRs this quarter is to raise customer satisfaction to 90%.

  2. Each team's OKRs should support the company's objectives for the year.

Common collocations

  • set OKRs
  • quarterly OKRs
  • company OKRs
  • score OKRs
  • OKR planning
  • objectiveA specific, measurable result that a team or organisation plans to achieve by a certain date, usually as one step towards a wider goal.
  • KPIShort for key performance indicator: a number that shows how well a person, team or company is doing against an important goal, such as monthly sales or customer satisfaction.
  • goalSomething a person, team or company wants to achieve, usually described in broad terms and over a longer period, such as becoming the market leader.
  • alignmentA state in which teams, goals and actions support the same strategy and priorities, so that different parts of an organisation work in the same direction.
  • stretch goalA goal set deliberately higher than what seems easily possible, to push a person or team to try new approaches and achieve more than usual.

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