For the last couple of years I've been working with clients around a maturity model, but this is the first time I've written about it or tried to share it outside of work with my clients. (And even my clients haven't all seen this yet!)

This is the second of three frameworks that I share in the Evolutionary OKRs Playbook.

Even early in my work with organizations implementing OKRs, I noticed patterns to the challenges, behaviors, and practices that organizations experienced trying to implement OKRs without a cohesive and coherent “playbook.” Those patterns informed a maturity model that I now use with clients to help them make decisions about what to focus on to improve their own OKR implementations.

The Connected Strategic Implementation Stack is a framework that helps us understand where OKRs may fit into an organization's existing operating Stack; and, spot what gaps they may fill in connecting what we do, to what's strategically most important.

This chapter of my upcoming Objectives and Key Results Book shares some basics about OKRs: a method for collaborative goal setting and alignment. In practice, well-formed OKRs can help us fill the gap between our high-level strategy and our tactical implementation decisions, so that what we do is better aligned with achieving our most important outcomes.