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There Be Giants hits revenues in excess of £200,000


Business grows thanks to Silicon-Valley based goal setting framework - OKRs.

There Be Giants hits revenues in excess of £200,000


"OKRs help everyone see progress towards common goals and the overall strategic objective of the company"
Roger Longden, MD, There Be Giants



Bury-based management consultancy There Be Giants, which helps organisations implement a goal-setting framework known as OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) made famous in Silicon-Valley, has hit revenues of over £200,000 to March 31, 2019 and has seen its business take off internationally in 2019. 

 

The business founded by ex-Fujitsu employee, Roger Longden in 2010 became a dedicated OKR consultancy in 2016 and is one of very few devoted, technology agnostic OKR management consultancies world-wide – the vast majority of experts being California-based due to Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and Uber being the most well-known advocates of the framework. 

 

OKRs benefit rapidly-scaling businesses by focussing everyone in the organisation on achieving goals through specific measurable actions and communicating and monitoring progress towards achieving them. 

 

Roger and his team are dedicated to helping ambitious technology-focused businesses develop high growth strategies and then align and engage their people – and is one of only a handful of experts outside the US in the field. This month he oversaw the launch of the world’s first dedicated OKR podcast and he also speaks internationally on the subject as well as guest lectures at MMU Business School.

 

“So many small businesses have a cohesive unit that works closely together with clear alignment between what the business has to achieve and how the team will achieve it – but then it starts to grow rapidly and the ‘drift’ sets in,” explains Roger Longden, founder and MD of There Be Giants.

 

“The team starts to lose some of its glue as more people join and organisational complexities increase – things no longer work as well as they did, and they struggle to keep on track and achieve the successes they desire.

 

“OKRs help everyone see progress towards common goals and the overall strategic objective of the company – they are short, ambitious signals of where you want to go providing the actual deliverables for each objective which marks your progress towards success – keeping you focussed and on track.”

 

There Be Giants is working with a number of UK and European-based gaming and software companies, whilst also receiving interest from organisations internationally in Jamaica, Singapore and South Africa in the first quarter of 2019. 

 

The company works closely in workshops and ‘retrospective’ sessions with clients to tackle a number of things that often go awry in fast growing businesses - helping alignment with the overall strategic objective, demonstrating clear progress, stopping siloed working by collaborating across the organisation to achieve successes, promoting internal creativity and ambition and allowing for ‘smart failure’ where lessons are learned, and corrective measures taken rapidly.

 

“It’s been a fast-paced few years for There Be Giants and a very exciting time as agile ways of working have become more widely known and understood in terms of the benefits they can deliver to an organisation,” concludes Roger Longden. 

 

“Rapid growth makes prioritisation, clarity and alignment more challenging and the most successful businesses never stop focussing on these.  OKRs are rapidly becoming the tool-of-choice for both executing your strategy and keeping your people aligned, passionate and driven by purpose.”

 

As a professionally qualified coach, Roger has built up his knowledge and expertise while working for over twenty years in diverse sectors ranging from software, IT infrastructure, ecommerce, North Sea oil and gas through to motor racing, F1 and DCMS/Olympics 2012.

 

To listen to the podcast visit https://www.therebegiants.com/the-worlds-first-okr-podcast/

 

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