Parent Results

Contexts look to their parent context when exploring how to use their budget (which came from the parent context) to measure their vision to change the business. At the highest levels of parent context, the target results tend to be lagging indicators. The challenge for the child context is to find leading indicators to build their own desired results, with a documented belief of how improvement in the one indicator (leading) is related to the parent metric (often lagging).

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Example context:

"We believe that these <desired results for this context> are leading indicators for the <desired results of the parent context>, because <of these relationships> and <this reasoning>."

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For more:

• "Measure What Matters: OKRs - The Simple Idea That Drives 10x Growth", John Doerr (2018).
• "Objectives and Key Results", Felipe Castro.
• "Zone to Win: Organizing to Compete in an Age of Disruption", Geoffrey Moore (2015). (see Performance Zone targets)