11 customisable OKR examples for Governance
What are Governance OKRs?
The Objective and Key Results (OKR) framework is a simple goal-setting methodology that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s. It became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s, and it's now used by teams of all sizes to set and track ambitious goals at scale.
Creating impactful OKRs can be a daunting task, especially for newcomers. Shifting your focus from projects to outcomes is key to successful planning.
We have curated a selection of OKR examples specifically for Governance to assist you. Feel free to explore the templates below for inspiration in setting your own goals.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.
Building your own Governance OKRs with AI
While we have some examples available, it's likely that you'll have specific scenarios that aren't covered here. You can use our free AI generator below or our more complete goal-setting system to generate your own OKRs.
Our customisable Governance OKRs examples
We've added many examples of Governance Objectives and Key Results, but we did not stop there. Understanding the difference between OKRs and projects is important, so we also added examples of strategic initiatives that relate to the OKRs.
Hope you'll find this helpful!
1. OKRs to ensure compliance through complete closing of audit findings for data governance
Ensure compliance through complete closing of audit findings for data governance
Achieve 100% closure of existing data governance audit findings
Implement corrections and verify completion- Review all existing data governance audit findings
- Develop a detailed rectification plan
- Conduct two training sessions on data governance improvements and achieve 90% staff attendance
- Implement improvements highlighted from audit findings in 80% of relevant areas
- Track and document all changes made
- Identify areas needing improvement from audit findings
- Prioritize implementing changes in 80% of these areas
2. OKRs to enhance data governance by building a robust business catalog
- Enhance data governance by building a robust business catalog
- Increase number of cataloged business assets by 30%
- Initiate an equipment inventory audit across all departments
- Invest in new business assets and update registry
- Encourage employees to report unregistered assets
- Achieve 95% data accuracy and completeness in the built business catalog
- Train staff on data accuracy importance and techniques
- Implement rigorous data validation procedures
- Conduct regular audits and cleanups of existing data
- Establish standardized cataloging and data stewardship guidelines applicable across all departments
- Develop guidelines for standardized cataloging and data stewardship
- Communicate guidelines to all department heads for implementation
- Monitor department compliance with standardized procedures
3. OKRs to implement effective Data Governance Framework Agency-wide
- Implement effective Data Governance Framework Agency-wide
- Train 80% of relevant staff members on data governance principles and practices
- Develop or acquire a data governance training program
- Schedule and conduct training sessions for identified staff
- Identify relevant staff for data governance training
- Achieve 90% compliance with the newly implemented data governance framework
- Train all team members on the new data governance framework
- Conduct regular compliance audits for monitoring adherence
- Implement reward scheme for compliance achievements
- Set up clear data governance policies and procedures by next quarter
- Implement, review, and refine drafted data governance procedures
- Draft initial policies and procedures for data governance
- Identify key stakeholders for creating data governance policies
4. OKRs to enhance and streamline security governance framework
- Enhance and streamline security governance framework
- Achieve 100% staff completion of cyber security training program
- Enforce disciplinary measures for non-compliance
- Assign mandatory cybersecurity training program to all staff
- Monitor progress of staff training completion weekly
- Conduct a comprehensive risk assessment across all departments
- Evaluate and prioritize each potential risk
- Develop a plan to mitigate identified risks
- Identify the potential risks in each department
- Implement advanced threat detection system in 90% of the network infrastructure
- Test system coverage across the entire network infrastructure
- Identify current gaps in the network's threat detection system
- Procure and install advanced threat detection software
5. OKRs to implement efficient governance for internal communications and editorial
- Implement efficient governance for internal communications and editorial
- Monitor and reduce communication or editorial inconsistencies by 50%
- Provide consistent editorial training to staff
- Implement a standardized communication style guide
- Regularly assess and correct content discrepancies
- Develop a comprehensive communication governance guide by end of next quarter
- Review, refine and finalize the guide
- Design and develop the preliminary guide draft
- Gather necessary communication aspects and requirements
- Train 80% of internal communication and editorial staff on new governance rules
- Monitor and confirm staff participation in sessions
- Identify internal staff requiring training on new governance rules
- Organize training sessions on new governance rules
6. OKRs to enhance and streamline Board operations
- Enhance and streamline Board operations
- Develop and adopt a comprehensive Board governance framework
- Secure Board approval and implement the framework
- Create a custom board governance framework plan
- Research existing governance frameworks for benchmarking
- Improve Board communication channels, achieving 100% Director satisfaction rate
- Establish an effective, streamlined communication system
- Implement regular, structured meetings for all board members
- Conduct satisfaction surveys to gauge director feedback
- Increase Board meeting efficiencies by 20% through adoption of digital tools
- Provide training on utilization of digital tools for presentations
- Implement a digital scheduling system for coordinating board meetings
- Introduce digital voting platform for decision-making
7. OKRs to enhance data governance maturity with metadata and quality management
- Enhance data governance maturity with metadata and quality management
- Implement an enterprise-wide metadata management strategy in 75% of departments
- Train department leads on the new metadata strategy implementation
- Develop custom metadata strategy tailored to departmental needs
- Identify key departments requiring metadata management strategy
- Decrease data-related issues by 30% through improved data quality measures
- Incorporate advanced data quality check software
- Implement a rigorous data validation process
- Offer periodic training on data management best practices
- Train 80% of the team on data governance and quality management concepts
- Identify team members requiring data governance training
- Conduct quality management training sessions
- Schedule training on data governance concepts
8. OKRs to strengthen cybersecurity governance and ensure compliance
- Strengthen cybersecurity governance and ensure compliance
- Reduce cybersecurity incidents by 30% through enhanced security measures and systems
- Conduct regular cybersecurity awareness trainings for employees
- Enforce strict password policies and two-factor authentication
- Implement advanced antivirus and firewall systems across all devices
- Implement, test, and document improvements to 20% of security policies and protocols
- Develop and implement improvements for selected policies
- Identify 20% of security policies needing improvements
- Write documentation detailing all modified protocols
- Complete cybersecurity training and compliance certification for 90% of team members
- Monitor training progress and check completion
- Facilitate compliance certification for trained members
- Identify and enroll team members in cybersecurity training
9. OKRs to enhance enterprise-wide governance, risk, and compliance
- Enhance enterprise-wide governance, risk, and compliance
- Implement a robust governance framework across 70% of the company departments
- Train department heads on governance procedures
- Identify key departments needing governance framework implementation
- Develop a tailored governance framework
- Decrease non-compliance incidents by 30% through improved risk management procedures
- Implement mandatory risk management training for all employees
- Improve surveillance audits to detect non-compliance
- Update compliance policies to reflect current legislation
- Train 100% of the staff on compliance regulations and company policies
- Schedule training sessions for all staff members
- Monitor and document staff's training progress
- Develop a comprehensive compliance and policy training program
10. OKRs to streamline data architecture to enhance overall efficiency and decision-making
- Streamline data architecture to enhance overall efficiency and decision-making
- Improve data governance framework to ensure data quality and compliance
- Identify and rectify gaps in the current data governance policies
- Implement regular compliance checks and audits for data management
- Develop comprehensive data quality standards and measurement metrics
- Enhance data infrastructure scalability to support future growth and evolving needs
- Implement scalable data management solutions
- Monitor and adjust scalability strategies regularly
- Evaluate current data infrastructure strengths and limitations
- Increase data integration automation to reduce manual efforts by 30%
- Implement automation software to streamline data integration
- Monitor and assess efficiency improvements post-implementation
- Evaluate existing data integration processes and identify manual efforts
11. OKRs to enhance security posture and governance as CISO Manager
- Enhance security posture and governance as CISO Manager
- Reduce the number of security incidents by 20%
- Enhance employee training on cybersecurity practices
- Increase monitoring and intrusion detection efforts
- Implement routine system updates and security patches
- Conduct quarterly cybersecurity training for all employees
- Schedule and announce training sessions to all employees
- Identify relevant cybersecurity topics for training modules
- Develop comprehensive yet straightforward training materials
- Implement multi-factor authentication for 90% of systems
- Identify which systems currently lack multi-factor authentication
- Monitor and report regularly on progress until 90% completion
- Instigate the addition of multi-factor authentication to necessary systems
Governance OKR best practices to boost success
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
Having too many OKRs is the #1 mistake that teams make when adopting the framework. The problem with tracking too many competing goals is that it will be hard for your team to know what really matters.
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.
Tability's audit dashboard will highlight opportunities to improve OKRsTip #2: Commit to weekly OKR check-ins
Setting good goals can be challenging, but without regular check-ins, your team will struggle to make progress. We recommend that you track your OKRs weekly to get the full benefits from the framework.
Being able to see trends for your key results will also keep yourself honest.
Tability's check-ins will save you hours and increase transparencyTip #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.
How to turn your Governance OKRs in a strategy map
Your quarterly OKRs should be tracked weekly in order 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
Spreadsheets are enough to get started. Then, once you need to scale you can use a proper OKR platform to make things easier.
Tability's Strategy Map makes it easy to see all your org's OKRsIf you're not yet set on a tool, you can check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates guide to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.
More Governance OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
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- OKRs to raise funds for Water4
- OKRs to streamline accounts receivable operations
- OKRs to drive up frequency of customer purchases
- OKRs to establish our simple AI startup using open-source tools
OKRs resources
Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.
- To learn: What is the meaning of OKRs
- Blog posts: ODT Blog
- Success metrics: KPIs examples
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