Governing the IoT: Balancing Risk and Regulation

Soon enough, the Internet of Things will play a dominant role in the economies of countries and regions around the globe. Many players are already involved, but so far no single company, agency, or department can be held accountable if (and when) thing…

Getting Analytics Right

Are your big data and analytics capabilities up to par? Nearly half of the global company executives in a recent Forbes Insight/Teradata survey certainly don’t think theirs are. This new book from O’Reilly examines how things typically go w…

Opportunities and Challenges in the IoT

This excerpt from the hour-long Google Hangout on Air begins about halfway into the discussion when Tim and Cory bring in questions from Twitter.Highlights:Using IoT to rethink industriesHow IoT can give humans superpowersCreating more efficient ways o…

The New Manager Mindset

So you’re a manager, or at least you want to be, and you’re looking for a good roadmap to help you prepare. If you want to be the kind of manager people really admire, this ebook is a good place to start. Instead of tactics and solutions, a…

Innovation: Discovering Processes for Bringing New Products to Market

Innovation is inherently disruptive when it comes to new products and services, especially for companies forced to react to developments like Google and the iPhone. In this O’Reilly report, Mike Barlow investigates how startups and large companies alike are looking to keep up with the pace of technological innovation today.

Disruptive innovation doesn’t always involve a new product or service. Creating new a business model or new market for an existing product can have the same effect. A couple of years ago, a small platform-as-a-service company repurposed an internal project as a virtual shipping container called Docker—a classic “pivot” story.

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Introduction to OKRs

There’s no question that the goal-setting methodology OKR (Objectives and Key Results) helps companies achieve substantial goals—just ask Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter—but some organizations have struggled to make it work.

With examples from several companies, including Google, Duxter, and Zynga, author and consultant Christina Wodtke walks you through the process of selecting short and aspirational objectives, along with difficult-but-achievable key results to quantify each objective. You’ll also learn how to inspire team members by baking OKRs into the daily and weekly cadence of your team.

  • Create team objectives that are qualitative, inspirational, time-bound, and independently actionable
  • Quantify and define the success of each objective with three key results
  • Adopt OKRs to help your team achieve focus, alignment, or acceleration
  • Learn a practical method for having your team choose objectives each quarter
  • Track and evaluate OKRs through weekly confidence ratings, Friday “wins” meetings, and end-of-quarter grading
  • Introduce OKRs in your organization gradually to help your team master the process

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