Corporate Strategy

Viewing the Corporate Strategy

The Corporate Strategy feature in Inspire is designed to promote transparency within your Organization.

Corporate Strategy Article Key Features

To Navigate to the Corporate Strategy: 

  • Option 1: Utilize the Waffle Menu in the upper right corner of Inspire, select Objectives, then Corporate Strategy.
  • Option 2: If you have Objectives enabled to appear in the Menu, you can easily select Objectives, then Corporate Strategy (to enable a Module to show in the Menu, click the Show in Menu toggle).
  • Option 3: Select Corporate Strategy from the Quicklinks Widget

Corporate Strategy Overview

The Corporate Strategy in Inspire is customizable. Not every organization will have the same layout as the example below.

Teams and Individuals can align their Individual and Team Objectives to the Corporate Strategy to show progress as it contributes to the overall strategy.

The example views in the screenshots below will show:

  • Strategic Categories/Departments: (Examples) Marketing, Learning, Sales and Product
  • Company Objectives: Shown in blue boxes in the Strategy view
  • Long Term Key Results: Long-Term Key Results (LTKRs) are usually set for a full year or longer to be accomplished. 
  • Corporate Quarterly Key Results: (CKRs) break down the LTKRs usually into Quarters or Trimesters. 

Note: Corporate Quarterly Key Results (CKRs) can align up to Long Term Key Results to show progress for the year. 

Choosing a Display / View in Corporate Strategy

You can select from a few different displays to view your Corporate Strategy. To adjust the display or view, navigate to the Display in the upper right corner of the screen, then select one of the 4 display options.

  • Strategy 
  • Corporate Objective Summary
  • Strategy Timeline
  • Strategy List

Note: Strategy View is the default display when navigating to Corporate Strategy. 

  1. Strategy View
  2. Corporate Objective Summary View
  3. Strategy Timeline View
    • The Timeline view gives you a Yearly glance at the Company Level Objectives and allows you to drill into each Key Result.
To see more details, hover over the Blue Key Result title and you will see the Hierarchy icon along with the People Icon to drill into the details.

Note: If your Organization is utilizing Long Term Key Results- When you expand a Corporate Objective - only the Long Term Key Results will display at first. The user can expand the Long Term Key Result individually to show the Corporate Key Results. 

  • Click the LTKR to expand the Quarterly Key Results below. 

Strategy Timeline View Settings

  • When viewing the Corporate Strategy (timeline view) from the corporate strategy or timeline widget, if you expand the view settings (Gear icon) for the strategy, you can:
      • Enable/disable Objective Owner display
      • Enable/disable Key Result Owner 
        • When Enabled, Owner name displays for each Long Term Key Result and Corporate Key Result 
      • Enable/disable Key Result Date display to show or hide dates 
      • Enable / disable Priority 
      • Enable / disable Numeric Details 
      • Manage Corporate Objective Categories 

Note: Timeline display settings are separate from main strategy display settings.

4. List View - 

The Strategy List View provides a simplified, exportable, and easy-to-navigate view of the entire corporate strategy—perfect for reviewing alignment and progress across all levels of your organization.

Note: Reference this help article for more details on the Strategy List View

Hierarchy View Settings:

 

 

Selecting the Hierarchy and Settings Icon will open up a side panel with the options: 

  • Hide/Show Zoom and Alignment Controls
  • Show numeric details (When enabled, numeric key results will display the start, target, and current units. 
  • Show dates
  • Show alignment from other Strategies
  • Show Corporate Objective (CO) alignment from other Strategies
  • Show Corporate Key Result (CKR) alignment from other strategies

Additional Features in Corporate Strategy

  • People Icon
    • When in the Strategy Timeline view, you can hover over the Corporate Quarterly Key Result to see the People icon, which shows how many Individuals are aligned to that Key Result.

    • Clicking on the People icon will bring up a drill-down of information on the users aligned to the Corporate Quarterly Key Result.

  • Progress Indicator
    • Hover over the Blue line along the Progress Bar to see Expected Progress compared to current Progress.

  • Hierarchy Icon
    • Drill into the Company Objective, Long Term Key Result, or Quarterly Key Results to see more detail and alignment. 

 

These settings give you more control over what information is displayed and help tailor the strategy view to your specific needs—whether you're focused on progress tracking, alignment, or data visibility.

  • Filter Icon 
    • Select the Filter Icon to Filter the View of the Corporate Strategy to focus in on a specific Quarter or Objective. 

Note: Selecting a Specific Quarter will only affect the Strategy display view and hierarchy view. 

Note: If you Filter to a specific period or periods on the Corporate Strategy, selecting the Hierarchy icon will filter to the same period(s)


Learn More about Adding a Corporate Strategy (Administrators)

Please reach out to support@inspiresoftware.com with any questions.