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title: What is OGSM?
description: How do you break down company objectives to smaller pieces?
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last_updated: 2026-07-11
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# What is OGSM?

## Purpose
How do you break down company objectives to smaller pieces?

## Article
OGSM stands for **Objectives**, **Goals**, **Strategies** and **Measures**. It is a framework to help breakdown an objective into actionable pieces with measures to ensure they are completed.

Objectives set should be aligned to the companies overall vision and time bound to a mid term horizon (1-5 years). They need to be ambitious but achievable, and will create business success when they are achieved.

Goals are specific outcomes to be achieved by a specific date whose completion leads to the completion of the objective. They are time bound in the short term and have clear measurable completion criteria.

Strategies are the specific actions and groups of actions (projects) that are required to complete the goal. These actions are defined by making decisions from a selection of options and allocating resource to ensuring their completion.

Measures are the specific metrics that determine if progress is being made by the strategies towards the goals. They need to be constantly updated to ensure the team know if they are on or off track.

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- This article was written at https://neon.coach/articles/what-is-ogsm
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