Research shows that up to 95% of employees don’t understand company strategy. With Strategy Map, that’s not the case. Foster strategic alignment as everyone starts pulling in the same direction, focused on what matters most: delivering the strategy.

With your Ultimate Goal and Strategic Pillars, you’re able to make sense of your strategic choices and communicate your strategy in a way that's understood by your people. Teams can then align OKRs to the strategy, deciding how best they can contribute to it while spotting opportunities for horizontal alignment.

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Your Map starts with your Ultimate Goal. Below this, you'll find your Strategic Pillars. Together, they form your company’s strategy.

Your Ultimate Goal explains the purpose of your organization, for which markets and customer segments your organization is fulfilling that purpose, and when you’ll consider your undertaking a success. It explains in one sentence what it's all about.

Strategic Pillars then explain how you’re planning to realize your Ultimate Goal – how your organization differentiates itself.

Below your Pillars, you'll see your OKRs. They are divided into lanes that represent the rhythm you're using to set and achieve OKRs. We recommend an annual and a quarterly cadence, though Map is a customizable space.

* NOTE: Map defaults to the current/active timeframe.

Click on any Objective's name to open the modal or hover over the name to see more details (Owner, Lead, progress bar, how progress is calculated):

Or use the 3-dot menu to Edit or Delete an Objective:

Other important notes:

1. Add your Ultimate Goal and Strategic Pillars. When setting OKRs, it's best to start with your strategy. This article helps you set up your strategy in Perdoo.

2. Align KPIs to measure success on your Pillars. Here's how to either create a new KPI or add an existing KPI to measure success on a Pillar:
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3. Add Company annual OKRs. What are the big themes for your organization this year?

4. Add quarterly Team OKRs. The different teams or departments in your organization should ideally align OKRs to the key themes set out in your annual Company OKRs.

💡 Pro tip: Strategic Pillars are ordered from newest to oldest (left to right). Drag and drop your Pillars to reorder. This same order will be reflected in your Strategic Timeline as well (left-to-right in Map = top-to-bottom in Strategic Timeline).

We'd recommend an annual and a quarterly cadence. But you can also create custom cadences. Learn more about adding or customizing cadences.

Easily add goals to a specific cadence and immediately see where they fall within the entire Company's goals. Learn more about adding Company or Team Objectives. 

From your Map, use the 3-dot menu > Edit Strategic Pillar > Save in order to add a description to your Strategic Pillar:

Communicate your strategy effectively with additional context that resonates with your team. Add context to explain why this is a Strategic Pillar. Are there trade-offs you'll have to make? Explain your choices so that everyone's on the same page.

Hover over a Strategic Pillar to view your description:

You can re-order any aligned Objectives in your Map using drag-and-drop.

* NOTE: Unaligned Objectives in the topmost cadence appear on the Map, not in the tab.

Use the dropdown list next to the timeframe to switch timeframes.

Quickly evaluate progress by changing the card size to the smaller view. You'll see just the Team avatar and percentage completion of the Objectives. You can then hover over the card to see the Objective name, Objective Lead, and any tags.  

Want to see your complete Map all at once? Click the minus button to view your full OKR alignment on one screen.

Use filters, to specify what you want to see in your Map. You can do this in the top-left corner of your Map. Filter by:

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