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What are Business Continuity OKRs?
The OKR acronym stands for Objectives and Key Results. It's a goal-setting framework that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s, and it became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s. OKRs helps teams has a shared language to set ambitious goals and track progress towards them.
Formulating strong OKRs can be a complex endeavor, particularly for first-timers. Prioritizing outcomes over projects is crucial when developing your plans.
We've tailored a list of OKRs examples for Business Continuity to help you. You can look at any of the templates below to get some inspiration for your own goals.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.
The best tools for writing perfect Business Continuity OKRs
Here are 2 tools that can help you draft your OKRs in no time.
Tability AI: to generate OKRs based on a prompt
Tability AI allows you to describe your goals in a prompt, and generate a fully editable OKR template in seconds.
- 1. Create a Tability account
- 2. Click on the Generate goals using AI
- 3. Describe your goals in a prompt
- 4. Get your fully editable OKR template
- 5. Publish to start tracking progress and get automated OKR dashboards
Watch the video below to see it in action 👇
Tability Feedback: to improve existing OKRs
You can use Tability's AI feedback to improve your OKRs if you already have existing goals.
- 1. Create your Tability account
- 2. Add your existing OKRs (you can import them from a spreadsheet)
- 3. Click on Generate analysis
- 4. Review the suggestions and decide to accept or dismiss them
- 5. Publish to start tracking progress and get automated OKR dashboards
Tability will scan your OKRs and offer different suggestions to improve them. This can range from a small rewrite of a statement to make it clearer to a complete rewrite of the entire OKR.
Business Continuity OKRs examples
You'll find below a list of Objectives and Key Results templates for Business Continuity. We also included strategic projects for each template to make it easier to understand the difference between key results and projects.
Hope you'll find this helpful!
OKRs to enhance the firm's business continuity plan
ObjectiveEnhance the firm's business continuity plan
KRTrain every department on the business continuity plan to increase company preparedness
Schedule training sessions for all departments- Monitor staff comprehension and address queries after training
- Develop comprehensive training material on business continuity plan
- KRConduct at least two BCP drills to identify and address potential weaknesses
- Schedule two Business Continuity Plan (BCP) drills
- Execute BCP drills, note all weaknesses
- Develop solutions to address identified weaknesses
- KRDevelop a full business continuity plan covering all key operational areas
- Draft detailed contingency strategies for each area
- Identify all key operational areas needing continuity measures
- Review and revise continuity plan regularly
OKRs to ensure business continuity despite team member absenteeism
- ObjectiveEnsure business continuity despite team member absenteeism
- KRDevelop a cross-training program for all department roles by end of next quarter
- Schedule and implement training sessions
- Design a comprehensive cross-training curriculum
- Identify key skills required in all department roles
- KRImplement a backup system where every role has at least two knowledgeable substitutes
- Select two substitutes for each role
- Train the substitutes thoroughly
- Identify key roles and their associated responsibilities
- KRTest business continuity plan under simulated absence scenarios, achieving 90% effectiveness
- Design simulated tests for each identified scenario
- Identify potential absence scenarios affecting business continuity
- Conduct simulations, aiming for 90% effectiveness
OKRs to strengthen operational self-sufficiency and resiliency within the business
- ObjectiveStrengthen operational self-sufficiency and resiliency within the business
- KRImplement two new business continuity plans
- Test and refine the proposed business continuity plans
- Develop two separate strategies that address these risks
- Identify potential risks that could disrupt business operations
- KRIncrease emergency fund savings by 25%
- Set up automated monthly transfers to emergency fund
- Analyze current budget and identify unnecessary expenses
- Generate additional income through side jobs
- KRTrain 90% of the team on new operational procedures for better autonomy
- Implement follow-up assessments to ensure competency
- Organize comprehensive training sessions for team members
- Develop simplified documentation of new operational procedures
OKRs to implement disaster recovery plan with RTO under one hour
- ObjectiveIncrease disaster recovery efficiency
- KRProvide training on disaster recovery procedures to all relevant staff
- Evaluate effectiveness of training and adjust as necessary
- Identify key stakeholders for disaster recovery training
- Develop customized training plan and materials
- Schedule and conduct training sessions
- KRConduct disaster recovery test bi-monthly
- Conduct test scenario walkthrough with all relevant stakeholders
- Prepare disaster recovery plan documentation
- Analyze results, identify gaps, and update disaster recovery plan accordingly
- Execute disaster recovery test to validate plan and processes
- KRReduce RTO to under one hour
- Improve network bandwidth and reliability
- Implement automated backup system
- Test Disaster Recovery Plan regularly
- Increase server redundancy
- KREnsure all critical systems are covered in the recovery plan
- Identify all critical systems
- Develop recovery strategies for critical systems
- Determine the impact of system downtime
- Test the recovery plan for critical systems
Business Continuity OKR best practices
Generally speaking, your objectives should be ambitious yet achievable, and your key results should be measurable and time-bound (using the SMART framework can be helpful). It is also recommended to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.
Here are a couple of best practices extracted from our OKR implementation guide 👇
Tip #1: Limit the number of key results
Focus can only be achieve by limiting the number of competing priorities. It is crucial that you take the time to identify where you need to move the needle, and avoid adding business-as-usual activities to your OKRs.
We recommend having 3-4 objectives, and 3-4 key results per objective. A platform like Tability can run audits on your data to help you identify the plans that have too many goals.
Tip #2: Commit to weekly OKR check-ins
Having good goals is only half the effort. You'll get significant more value from your OKRs if you commit to a weekly check-in process.
Being able to see trends for your key results will also keep yourself honest.
Tip #3: No more than 2 yellow statuses in a row
Yes, this is another tip for goal-tracking instead of goal-setting (but you'll get plenty of OKR examples above). But, once you have your goals defined, it will be your ability to keep the right sense of urgency that will make the difference.
As a rule of thumb, it's best to avoid having more than 2 yellow/at risk statuses in a row.
Make a call on the 3rd update. You should be either back on track, or off track. This sounds harsh but it's the best way to signal risks early enough to fix things.
Save hours with automated OKR dashboards
Your quarterly OKRs should be tracked weekly if you want to get all the benefits of the OKRs framework. Reviewing progress periodically has several advantages:
- It brings the goals back to the top of the mind
- It will highlight poorly set OKRs
- It will surface execution risks
- It improves transparency and accountability
Most teams should start with a spreadsheet if they're using OKRs for the first time. Then, you can move to Tability to save time with automated OKR dashboards, data connectors, and actionable insights.
How to get Tability dashboards:
- 1. Create a Tability account
- 2. Use the importers to add your OKRs (works with any spreadsheet or doc)
- 3. Publish your OKR plan
That's it! Tability will instantly get access to 10+ dashboards to monitor progress, visualise trends, and identify risks early.
More Business Continuity OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
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