Our Founder Vaidya's Experience at Intel (R&D) on OKRs

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) drive ambitious goals of companies to achieve. While Conversations, Feedback and Recognition (CFR) enable continuous performance and people engagement.

History of OKR: In 1975, John Doerr, at Intel, attended a course by Andy Grove where he was introduced to the theory of OKRs, then called "iMBOs" for "Intel Management by Objectives". In 1999, Doerr, introduced the idea of OKRs to a start-up Kleiner Perkins had invested in . Doerr published Measure What Matters in 2017. Larry Page, the CEO of Alphabet and co-founder of , credited OKRs within the foreword to Doerr's book: "OKRs have helped lead us to 10× growth. Since becoming popular at , OKRs have found favor with several other similar tech start-up organizations including , , , and .

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My hands on experience on OKRs & CFR in global programs while working at Intel R&D Center, Bengaluru, India (Dec 2004- Mar 2007).

This blog is about my personal experience as an individual (Vaidya). Having worked for global programs at Intel I was under a matrix structure with multiple functional divisions that were distributed across USA (Chandler - Arizona), India (Bengaluru), Malaysia (Penang, Kulim and Cyberjaya), China (Chengdu and Pudong), Costa Rica (San Jose).

The Intel Core Values!

Guidelines for "Managers Basics" and it's importance of Intel Core Values alignment: As part of mandatory training programs, I got the training on Intel Core Values at Bengaluru, India and also attended several training programs at Intel University at Malaysia, US locations. Be it business decisions, day to day email communications, display at meeting rooms, workspace, ID Card (core values printed on rear side), or during performance appraisal conversations everywhere Intel Core Values is often used, mentioned and encouraged to demonstrate.

Our Leaders with OKR Experience at MNCs/Indian companies across domains

Our leadership team gained their hands-on experience with various Goal Management fameworks during their corporate stint such as Balanced Score Card, MBO, SMART Goals, OKR and CFR (at Intel) etc.

Shubha Apte (Shubha) our Principal OKR Coach & Consultant and the Founder & CEO Vaidyanathan Ramalingam (Vaidya) have more than 6 decades of corporate work experience that span across domains/industry verticals. The companies include National and MNCs such as Motorola, Dell, Thomson Reuters, TCS (Tata Consultancy Services), Advani Oerlikon, Blue Star, Escorts, Nortel Networks ODC (BPL), Siemens, Ness Technologies, Intel (where OKR got introduced), HP and Huawei technologies.

The roles played while at corporate starts from Engineer (Individual Contributor), FLM (First Line Manager) and SLM (Second Line Manager) and Site Level Leadership. From OKRs perspective bringing technical, business and HR domain knowledge to solve customer problems through consulting, coaching, training and software as a service, thus all at one place as one-stop-solution.

It gives immense pleasure to continuously solve Goal Management challenges of our customers with our Skills2Talent™ and OKR Stars™ services (brands) since Y2013.