Bury management consultancy There Be Giants reaches £200,000 revenues
Greater Manchester-based management consultancy There Be Giants, which helps organisations implement a goal-setting framework made famous in Silicon-Valley, has hit revenues of over £200,000.
The business, founded by ex-Fujitsu employee Roger Longden in 2010, is a specialist in OKR (objectives & key results) management, and is one of the very few experts in this areas outside of the US with most 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 focusing everyone in the organisation on achieving goals through specific measurable actions and communicating and monitoring progress towards achieving them.
This month saw the launch of the world’s first dedicated OKR podcast and Roger 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.
“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 deliverable for each objective which marks your progress towards success – keeping you focused 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 challenges - 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.
Sourced from Manchester Evening news - Written by Shelina Begum