[Jtsummers]

OKRs aren’t supposed to directly depend on anyone outside the team or organization. I, personally, can’t fix my contracting office so I can’t set an OKR to improve production rates of our (few) physical products when contracting is always the bottleneck (supplier agreements for materials we need). If we used OKRs, with respect to that element we could only set OKRs that they could achieve on their own (quality, design updates, production rates when they do have material). A couple levels above me are the people who can directly impact the contracting people and set about improving their performance, though.

If you’re setting them and always missing them because of entities with other objectives, then your organization is obviously misaligned and needs to evaluate its goals.