Gartner defines the collaborative work management (CWM) market as the market for stand-alone software tools that provide task-driven workspaces to enable end users to plan, coordinate and automate their work. These tools provide an integrated assembly of user-friendly capabilities for work planning, in-context collaboration, content collaboration, workflow and automation, reporting, analysis and dashboarding, intelligent assistance, and use-case acceleration on a platform that handles data management and administrative operations. Tools are defined by their purpose (work planning and execution), target users and breadth of functionality.
Gartner defines employee performance management (PM) systems as applications used to establish, manage and evaluate progress toward employee performance expectations. These features include support for goal setting and cascade, competency models, ongoing bidirectional feedback, performance evaluation, and performance calibration. Performance management systems facilitate the central set of processes that organizations, HR departments and managers use to manage the activities of employees. The most popular use cases include: - Enable goal setting, cascade and management. The technology has matured to enable goal (or objective) setting, cascading and management for most use cases. - Allow continuous bidirectional and peer feedback. PM systems allow organizations to determine the frequency, content structure and visibility of feedback given and received by many users throughout the performance cycle. - Deliver performance evaluation documents and workflows. The core functionality of a PM system is in delivering performance evaluation documents through organizationally defined workflows, including employee self-reviews, manager reviews and approvals.
OKR Software is a tool which helps individuals, teams and broader organization set, track and measure their goals and objectives. It facilitates the implementation of the OKR framework, which is a popular goal-setting methodology used by businesses to align the objectives of teams and individuals with the overall organizational strategy. It provides insights into progress and areas for improvement through reporting and analytical dashboards and is also easily integratable with other productivity tools and systems. By using it, organizations can improve their goal setting process, increase transparency, and foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.