As the twenty-first century demands brought new challenges to businesses, there is a need to find the right tools for the job. If you put a greater focus on enterprise, connectivity, and security, the products and services below might be just the right fit for you.
Enterprise
If you want your organization to have its own sense of enterprise, OKR’s are a great metric and motivator. A good OKR seeks to align company objectives with the company strategy. By implementing these best practices within an OKR framework, the company OKR can meet some ambitious goals, including stretch goals and business goals.
Through OKR software, the company can employ a goal-setting framework to get measurable results, which is, of course, the purpose of OKRs in the first place. This OKR software also works well within an Agile framework.
One OKR example might be a sales team. Through the OKR system, they commit to reaching some high-level objectives by the next quarter. Because they have set the OKR or KPI, key performance indicator, within a reasonable time period, the team members can follow the OKR process to set their top priorities and reach their team objective by the end of the quarter. When these OKRs work, the sales team can set milestones of achievement at the company level through the best practices of an OKR framework.
Connectivity
Since the days of the Tower of Babel, the need for peoples from different nations and tribes to communicate and work together has been clear. The Tower of Babel may be a myth, but the interaction between cultures and the common thread between them is not. Take the word “tri,” for example. It exists in English in words like three and tricycle and triceps. It also exists in Latin, Romance languages, Slavic languages, and Sanskrit. It would seem as if we all have some common thread, an Indo-European or Indo-Iranian connection. The nuances regarding how we are all connected are what bind us all together as one global culture.
If connectivity is one of your organization’s top priorities, then Sil Micro might be the best way to get there. Connectivity in the world ecosystem has increased exponentially due to market events brought about by disruptors: Ethernet, Spotify, Uber, Zoom, LinkedIn, and, of course, Google, founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Employee engagement is increased through a company that can book high output management by creating a template to match individual OKRs with team objectives to obtain a key result within the OKR cycle.
Humans are social species, and we, by our nature, need to stay connected. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the world had taken a lot of that connectivity away from us, and we were left with our blog posts. People, in general, have ambitious goals, and we often need to work with other people to transform those goals into reality, just like Larry Page and Sergey Brin did when they formed Google.
By bringing the world closer together, we can help combat many of the problems that we all face together because we are all in this together. The COVID-19 pandemic, for example, has stretched healthcare systems all over the world to the breaking point. Moreover, the global economy has been brought to the brink of collapse by self-inflicted wounds due to the necessity of lockdowns. To make things worse, social divisions have rocked the US. We have not even seen the psychological costs to our next generation of being confined in this manner during their formative years.
These twenty-first-century problems need to have twenty-first-century solutions. To solve those problems, we are going to have to work together. We are going to need more connection to each other.
Security
Joseph Campbell spoke of the great monomyth. It was as if all cultures had the same things in common. There was always a hero existing within his natural world. Then there was a challenge that threatened the hero and his natural world. The solution to that challenge was always found outside the natural world, in the underworld.
Whether it was Sigfried or St. George battling the dragon, Marduk battling Tiamat, or Thor battling the Midgard serpent, there was always a battle between order and chaos. These monsters represent chaos. The need for security is about the need to provide order to prevent chaos from taking over our lives.
For security, Verkada builds great products, like their mini bullet camera with high resolution and a complete field of view. Other great products and features that include helping alerts spot unwelcome visitors include the bullet camera, the sensor, and IR illumination.
In the Maslow Hierarchy of Needs, security (safety needs) is way up there. This need is primal. Since we were primates living in the trees and prehistoric peoples living in caves, the need for security to protect against predators, the chaos of the natural world has always been quite primal. In the twenty-first century, security needs are not just of a physical nature but a digital nature.
Final Thoughts
In a hyper-digitized, post-pandemic world, we are met with new challenges in health and security, community, and overall psychological well-being. We will need a sense of enterprise to set ambitious goals to motivate us to solve these problems. We will need a sense of connectivity to work together creatively to solve these problems. Finally, we will need a sense of security to know that these problems have indeed been managed, if not completely solved, so that we can all prepare, together, for a brighter future.