Turn your strategy into goals every employee acts on.
Define your objectives and key results and align them down through the organisation. Your people align up with goals that declare their intent to act, while you watch progress and risk in real time.
Strategy doesn’t fail in the boardroom. It fails on the way down.
Leadership agrees the priorities. Two levels down, most managers can’t name them. Effort drifts to work that doesn’t move the objectives, and leaders find out at the quarterly review, when it’s too late to course-correct.
1 · The strategy gets lost
28%
of executives and middle managers responsible for executing strategy could list three of their company’s strategic priorities.
MIT Sloan Management Review, 20182 · Initiatives miss
65% vs 35%
of strategic initiatives meet their original goals in organisations with high versus low alignment of projects to strategy.
PMI Pulse of the Profession, 20143 · Money is wasted
9.9%
of every dollar invested is wasted through poor project performance.
PMI Pulse of the Profession, 20184 · Value is left behind
67%
is the average share of potential financial benefit that even successful transformations capture.
McKinsey Global Survey, 2021Making the case to your COO, CFO or CPO? Every figure links to its source.
Zontally closes the gap in three steps: align down, align up, and see progress and risk in real time.
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The whole strategy lifecycle, in one system
Strategy Planning, Alignment, Execution and Realisation: the strategy your leadership team agrees, the goals your people commit to, a live view of progress and risk, and proof of the value it delivered.
Define your strategy and align it down
Put your whole strategy in one place: every objective, key result and owner, connected from the leadership team to the front line.
- OKR creation and management, in the framework you already use: OKRs, strategic pillars or balanced scorecard
- Clear ownership for every objective and key result
- The Strategy Analyst helps your leadership team draft and structure objectives and key results
For the COO and Chief of Staff
Your people align up with goals that declare their intent to act
Every employee sets goals that say what they will do, each linked to the key result it moves. You see who is aligned to what, and where nobody is.
- Link individual goals to key results and business KPIs
- Alignment visualisation shows coverage and gaps across every team
- The Strategy Analyst suggests how each team’s goals connect to the strategy
For the CPO, line managers and every team
Know what’s on track, at risk or stalled, as it happens
Progress and risk update as work moves, not at the quarterly review, so you can course-correct while there’s still time.
- Check-in rituals keep progress current without chasing updates
- Execution scorecards for every objective, team and owner
- Early detection of execution risk, before it reaches the numbers
For the COO, CFO and Chief Risk Officer
Realise the value you planned for
The Value Engine measures the value delivered against the objectives it was meant to move, so you know what worked and the next planning cycle starts from evidence, not opinion.
- Value tracked against the objectives it was meant to move
- Built on the same strategy, goals and progress data as the first three stages
- Learning carried into the next planning cycle, closing the loop back to Strategy Planning
For the COO and CFO
Digital Employees
The Strategy Analyst is Zontally’s first Digital Employee, skilled in helping define strategies and align goals to them. It supports your Chief of Staff and leadership team. It never replaces them.
For your leadership team
One platform. A concrete answer for every executive.
Everyone sees the same live strategy, from the angle they’re accountable for.
Chief Operating Officer
Execute the strategy you agreed
See every objective, key result and owner in one live view, and know which are slipping before the quarterly review.
- The strategy hierarchy, aligned down from the leadership team to every team
- Progress from regular check-ins, not status-chasing in spreadsheets
- Early warning on at-risk key results, each with a clear owner
- Execution scorecards for every objective and team
CFO & Chief Risk Officer
Fund what matters, and see what could derail it
Trace every initiative and goal to the objective it serves, so you can see what isn’t aligned and where risk is building.
- Line of sight from initiatives to the strategic objectives they serve
- Work that isn’t aligned to any objective, made visible
- Risk on key results in real time, not after the quarter closes
Connects to Integrated Risk Management, linking risks to the objectives they threaten.
Chief People Officer
Show every person how their work matters
Every employee aligns up with goals that declare their intent to act, so people can see how their work moves the strategy.
- Every employee’s goals linked to the key result they move
- Alignment coverage and gaps, team by team
- Check-ins and recognition that reinforce the work that matters
Connects to Work and Skills Management, showing where effort and skills sit against priorities.
For the Chief of Staff
You own making the strategy real. Take the case to your leadership team.
Get a ready-made business case for your COO, CFO and CPO, with the research behind it. The Strategy Analyst, Zontally’s first Digital Employee, helps you define the strategy and align goals to it. It supports you. It never replaces you.
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“Quote to follow.”
Leader at a 350-person IT Services and Digital Transformation business
The Zontally platform
Strategy to Execution at the centre
Start with Strategy to Execution, led by your COO and championed by your Chief of Staff. Integrated Risk Management and Work and Skills Management connect the same strategy to your CFO, Chief Risk Officer and Chief People Officer, all on the Value Engine and the Zontally AI Platform.
Strategy to Execution
Align the strategy down, let your people align up with goals, and see progress and risk in real time.
See how it worksIntegrated Risk Management
Risks managed against the objectives they threaten, in the same place as the strategy.
Work and Skills Management
Work and skills connected to the goals they serve.
- Digital Employees
- AI Agents
- Analytics
- Data Processing
- Security Controls
Align down. Align up. See progress and risk in real time.
See your strategy in Zontally: objectives and key results aligned down, your people’s goals aligned up, and progress and risk in one live view.
Championing this internally? Get the business case