Evolution4all

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Every business owner, manager, or leader understands the importance of these things. Without goals, you’re in a blind spot. Without goals, you won’t be able to define success, and much more important – measure it. You just keep doing what you’re doing without a clear direction. THE ULTIMATE OKR GUIDE. Do you want to know more about OKRs? We wrote a white paper that summarises everything that you need to know to start using OKRs in your company!

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Evolution4all

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

THE ULTIMATE OKR GUIDE. Do you want to know more about OKRs? We wrote a white paper that summarises everything that you need to know in order to start using OKRs in your company! Do not wait any longer and download your white paper now. Download The White-Paper. In our previous articles, we talk about OKR as a goal-setting framework and how it can help your business or organisation succeed.

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Evolution4all

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

In today’s world for companies to be successful, they must be extremely good in Digital Product Management! But what does success mean? LEAN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT GUIDE. We have developed a Product Management Guide to help you understand how to successfully apply Lean StartUp practices to deliver better products to market faster. DOWNLOAD THE GUIDE NOW.

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Evolution4all

MAY 2, 2019

5 Major Product Development Mistakes and How To Avoid Them. What are the major mistakes companies make that stop them from becoming market leaders and attaining the growth level they want? There are five major mistakes! Sadly, these mistakes have devastating effects on a company’s ability to deliver products with a high acceptance rate in the market.

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Evolution4all

MAY 3, 2019

The Nightmare of Hiring a Great Product Owner. On LinkedIn at the moment, there are over 3500 available job positions for Product Owners across Germany. Product Owners are very rare and finding a great one is similar to finding a unicorn, an extremely difficult task. Demand for skilled talents in the digital business space is constantly rising and some crucial and difficult positions such as Product Owners are extremely difficult to fill, more like an endangered species.

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Evolution4all

MAY 3, 2019

3 Terrible Mistakes of Digital Product Companies And How to Avoid Them. Are you offering products nobody is interested in? About 72% of all newly launched products fall short of their revenue targets, according to a recent HBR blog post. In fact, as soon as you launched a new startup or release a new product, the odds are already not in your favour.

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Evolution4all

MAY 2, 2019

Communities of Practice in Organisations. Emerging startups and growing companies looking to scale can immensely benefit from implementing communities of practice (CoPs) in their organisations, positively influencing many areas including innovation , leadership , cultivation of a “learning culture” , camaraderie , and employee retention which all leads to substantial growth. .

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Evolution4all

APRIL 30, 2019

Communities of Practice Rules. So you’ve heard about Communities of Practice from the grapevine? Exciting isn’t it? It’s just the most natural way to harness the inner genius of your team. It’s like constructing a playground for highly vetted talents you hired and you’re letting them play, make friends, and do some awesome magic for your company. And they don’t have to feel forced doing the work because it’s something they enjoy doing for your company.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 30, 2019

Communities of Practice and Leadership. The idea behind Communities of Practice (CoPs) is straightforward – every individual learns from the communities they find themselves in. In ancient times, members of a tribe had to learn to survive. Now it can be a community of Product Owners looking for a new approach to work with their Scrum Teams or a network of Developers sharing their new scripts to automate their work.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 30, 2019

Why is Communities of Practice Important. A community of practice (CoP) has long been recognised as a means of learning and sharing knowledge within organisations. It serves many important purposes, from educating to supporting your company’s talent, encouraging their growth, driving performance, and even resolving conflicts. In this article, we answer the most critical questions of every executive and leader – why are communities of practice important?

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Evolution4all

APRIL 29, 2019

Communities of Practice Tools. If you want to exponentially grow the CoPs in your company, you have to make it sure that you have systems and structures in place that would naturally assimilate to the operation of CoPs. Building and maintaining a community of practice and keeping the members actively engaged in conversations and projects is not an easy task, even for the most highly trained thought leaders.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 29, 2019

Building Communities of Practice. Ideas are what makes the business world go round. Companies spend a lot of time, money, and effort to generate ideas and spread them. In more than two and a half decades, this knowledge sharing framework is becoming a SoP for all companies – the community of practice. It radically enhanced the exchange of knowledge and more importantly, it can be used by any company, from manufacturers to banks, government agencies, small businesses and multinational companies i

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Evolution4all

APRIL 29, 2019

Communities of Practice in Business. Picture this, Employee 1 is having a problem operating a machine. During a break, he joined his teammates. While drinking coffee, Employee 1 casually brought up about the issue he’s been having about the machine he uses. Everybody seems to experience the same problem and they’re all frustrated because they’re spending way too much time fixing the machine rather than doing the real work they ought to do.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 29, 2019

Community of Practice and Innovation. Communities of practice have paved the way for the development of a more structured way of learning for many multinational corporations. The term community of practice was first introduced by Wenger and Lave in 1991 to describe learning and sharing of knowledge through building relationships with professionals who follow similar practices and have common interests.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 26, 2019

Why Do Communities of Practice Fail? Communities of practice (CoP) have become an integral part of the organisational landscape. Companies use it to share best practices, improve employee performance, develop new strategies, and create innovative approaches to resolving problems. As someone with a leadership position, if you’re not aware that your company have CoPs, you’re part of the problem.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 26, 2019

How Communities of Practice Develop Your Workers Skills? You’ve probably envisioned of it a couple of times; seeing your employees initiating to be better in the job they do. With the current setting and company culture that you have now, you’re probably thinking that it’s elusive to provide continuing skill training to your employees without them seeing it as another “tasks”.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 26, 2019

Communities of Practice Success Stories. Empowering communities of practice is one of the best ways to foster learning and boost performance in your organisation. Here , we talked about how CoPs enable knowledge transfer (which is basically one of its primary roles). But to truly appreciate their value, it would be best to tell you about communities of practice success stories.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 26, 2019

Communities of Practice Guidelines. Communities of practice are a well-established organisational framework designed for cultivating and sharing knowledge capital among the corporate workforce. But how do you set it up according to the needs and structure of your company? How do you ensure that it will benefit your organisation and help you achieve your goals?

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Evolution4all

APRIL 25, 2019

Communities Of Practice Best Practices. Communities of Practice should be able to provide an opportunity for your team to build their expertise and deepen their knowledge in your industry. Ideally, this is achieved through regular collaboration within an environment where everyone is eager to share his or her knowledge with one another. However, in its early stage, initiating and encouraging your team to make CoPs work can be a bit challenging.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 25, 2019

Communities of Practice Challenges. Knowledge has always been central to the success of any business. Whether it’s about the product, technology, process, or strategy – it is imperative for companies to invest and increase its intellectual capital in order to stay ahead of the competition. But unlike other competitive resources, knowledge belongs to individuals, not the organisation.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 5, 2019

Community of Practice Goals. How does learning take place within an organisation? Well, there are many ways. One of the most natural and widely acclaimed methodologies of learning is the so-called ‘community of practice’. The term might seem like a recent coinage but this concept has been in existence even before Wenger and the others talked about. When studying communities of practice (CoPs), it is worth knowing why we should implement it in organisations.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 5, 2019

What Makes Communities of Practice Successful. You’re probably sold on the idea of having Communities of Practice in your company. There’s just so much to it that you couldn’t pass the chance of assimilating this framework into your company culture. Being the strategic leader that you are, you’re probably curious what are the things that you should know to have the buy-in from your employees to participate in CoPs.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 5, 2019

Communities of Practice: How to Set Up for Your Company’s Workforce Growth. You’re convinced. CoPs are the missing piece of your agile organisation. After learning about the benefits of communities of practice in your organisation – from how it fosters a learning culture, help you create innovative business strategies, and lift your company performance – it’s time to set up your own!

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Evolution4all

MARCH 29, 2019

What Do Communities of Practice Look Like. Being someone who has an executive position, you’ve probably joined several clubs, communities, and networking opportunities before. Having a community of practice in your company is similar to that. The difference is barely noticeable except that a CoP is nurtured within your company and hosted with a different purpose and context.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 29, 2019

Do Communities of Practice Work? The concept of communities of practice has been around for a long time already. Men, being a social animal that we are, have always had the tendency to group together, cooperate, and exchange information; probably the secret why we thrive as a race compared to other species. It was only 25 years ago that we structured these tendencies into a working learning principle that we now call “community of practice”.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 29, 2019

Communities of practice have become a major knowledge management resource in modern organisations. Defined as a group of people who share a common passion and learn how to develop it through regular interaction, members of a CoP put their heads together to share ideas and strategies, come up with solutions, and develop innovations for companies like yours.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 11, 2019

Unlocking How Google Sets OKRs. Google owes its success to various factors. One of such is the goal-setting methodology that has played a key role in the company’s rapid success. This framework is known as Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). OKRs state the “what” goal of the company is or where it is headed. Objectives are with key results under them in order to basically determine whether the organisation has attained its objectives or not.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 11, 2019

Which companies use OKR? When Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is mentioned, the name Google may first come to mind because they are one of the pioneering companies that adopted the methodology. There are many other companies that have adopted it. This article will give brief details about which companies use OKR as a goal-setting framework. Only seven of them including Google are explained here.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 11, 2019

WHY USE OKRs? HERE’S WHY. There are many goal-setting methodologies. However, very few are as effective as Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). This framework is presently the most popular people-management and goal-setting framework because of two main reasons. The first reason is that OKRs are built on two strong principles: Management by Objectives (MBO) and S.M.A.R.T.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 10, 2019

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) have become widely popular in the business world. Many companies have adopted the framework in order to ensure growth and attainment of goals. The success of the framework can be seen in companies like Google. The concept involves the setting of goals and key results. Normally, the CEO and the key leadership team of the company will set OKRs, then the departments or management teams will follow suit by setting their OKRs in line with that of the company.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 11, 2019

How Many Objectives Should Your Company Have to Become Efficient? Companies like Amazon, Google and LinkedIn have a goal-setting strategy in common. This is Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). It is not a new concept. Despite the coming of many other management concepts and leadership principles, OKRs is still one of the most powerful organisational goal-setting frameworks available today.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 11, 2019

How To Set OKR. Do you wish to implement Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) the way Google does it? Do you want to be successful in executing the processes and empowering your team? If yes, this article will guide you. Google usually starts with their company OKRs whenever they want to set objectives. These are the high-level objectives and key results that give everyone else in the company a clear goal of what path Google wants to take.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 11, 2019

Objective and Key Results Examples to Help Your Company Set Effective Goals. It’s not enough that you have goals for your company. If your company is not experiencing growth, it’s either you are targeting the wrong goals or you are not utilising the right goal-setting methodology. As the leader of your organisation, you have to fix this. This is where OKRs come in.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 11, 2019

OKR Cheat Sheet: Guidelines, Tools, and Vital Frameworks. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is one of the most widely acclaimed goal-setting methodologies used today. You may have heard much about it and how it has helped companies like Google and Amazon to attain tremendous growth. If you wish to adopt the methodology, this OKR cheat sheet will help you.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 11, 2019

If you landed on this page about the evolution of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), you have our respect for researching a topic that only gets researched by management nerds : ). Kidding aside, it’s great to know about OKR history and how the goal-setting framework has evolved to what it is today. This will help you to fully understand the fundamental reason behind its final form.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 11, 2019

Objective and Key Results Implementation from Top to Bottom Overview. To properly implement Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), it is important to understand how this whole process works. The diagram below depicts how your organisational vision is connected to every team and individual contributors in your team from the annual down to the quarterly OKRs.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 11, 2019

Everything You Need to Know About OKR Basics. John Doerr introduced Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to Google in 1999. This goal-setting methodology has helped Google and other big companies to achieve tremendous growth over the years. If you are inspired by this and you are considering implementing OKRs in your company, you should proceed to read about the OKR basics explained below.

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