Jan 19 2021 20 mins 1
Our speakers, Dr. Ivan Zak and Ryan Leech discuss how methodologies from Traction, SAFe and Agile can be combined to help drive quarterly planning in veterinary consolidator businesses.
Topics discussed:
- Approach to strategic planning at VIS;
- Importance of quarterly planning meetings for interdepartmental collaboration;
- Identifying interdepartmental dependencies to align efforts towards goals and objectives;
- An online whiteboarding tool that helps organizing quarterly plans;
- Vertical cascading of goals down the four levels of the enterprise;
- Definition of Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) and SAFe methodologies;
- Level-10 meetings to track progress;
- How to make all the departments aware of the initiatives kicked off in a particular quarter.