OGSM blog | Strategy, structure and growth with OGSM: inspiration & insights

You don't have to see the whole staircase to take the first step.

You know the feeling. You’re driving in the dark at night, and the only thing you can see is what your headlights illuminate a few meters ahead. You know your destination.

Jasper Duijf

September 22, 2026

5 min

Outturn

Action Plan or Procrastination Plan?

The feeling of moving forward without actually going anywhere

Freedom increases dependency. Boundaries provide autonomy.

How frameworks strengthen autonomy

Is your plan focused on demolition or construction?

In every management meeting, there comes a moment when cutting costs and making investments are weighed against each other.

Everyone agreed. And yet it didn't happen.

Board consensus is meaningless without the dialogue that led up to it.

The question is not OKR or OGSM. The question is what your organization currently lacks.

OKR accelerates. OGSM provides direction. Do you know which one you need?

Improvement isn't a one-off project, but a continuous rhythm

Toyota processes more improvement ideas in a week than most organizations do in a year. Not thanks to bonuses or competitions, but thanks to a system that takes small signals seriously. That is pre

Jasper Duijf

June 30, 2026

5 min