Case Study: Cisco achieves faster strategy alignment and clearer execution with WorkBoardAI

Cisco boosts employee strategy understanding from 36% to 76% with WorkBoard

Cisco Security faced challenges with strategic visibility and alignment across its independent business units, relying on inefficient manual processes that were slow and error-prone. During a period of constant organizational change, including leadership transitions and acquisitions, teams perceived OKRs as an extra burden. To address this, they implemented WorkBoard's strategy execution platform, WorkBoardAI.

WorkBoard provided a single source of truth for strategy, enabling real-time alignment views that cut the process of assessing alignment from a month down to 30 minutes. This operationalized OKRs into daily work, eliminating the sense of extra process. As a result, employee understanding of strategy increased from 36% to 76%, accountability sharpened, and these improvements supported the successful integration of acquisitions and contributed to double-digit growth for the security organization.

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