Product Update: 💊 Many new painkillers in dobee

Because change, turnarounds or growth is painful for most of us. That's why dobee was founded in 2020.
It's easy to talk about ambitions, but it takes courage and commitment to take the necessary steps forward. If we want a better tomorrow, we must change our behaviour today. Changing our behaviour is hard and sometimes terribly painful.

Technology is not the only painkiller and AI is not a magic pill for most of us. Still, when we are working together, we need software that makes collaboration easier. When we need to make a change together, we need software that actually works for that purpose.

Complicated implementation, another password, complex onboarding and unnecessary reporting. 😱 Painful!

Fortunately, 2024 has been a great year in "dobee tech lab". A mix of healthy vitamins and medical ingredients have been added, into our sweet software pill: Let's dobee.it!

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As a leader, you are often one step ahead, telling the rest of the organisation about the next challenges you are facing - as one big team. It's painful to be on the top if people are actively disengaged or don't respond. It's also painful to be in a leadership team if you are not heading in the same direction. Chaos and constant firefighting is painful for most of us.

Recent painkillers from dobee 🙌

🌍 Strategy room (new): Make sure that everyone knows your strategy. Upload your current strategy documents, visualise your ambitions and add your own "motivational videos" for your ambitions and the entire strategy. Let everyone share the same picture and update it efficiently if you need to sharpen your focus as you move forward.

⏱️ Goal timeline (improved): Customers love the way dobee is presenting active goals, OKR or projects along a timeline, and they are using it in their meetings to show everyone how they are making progress and the deadlines are coming closer. If you are preparing next year or quarter, remember to use our new setup for planned goals, it's quite elegant.

🗺️ Goal map (new): How are all your goals connected to key elements in your strategy? With this interactive map, leaders and changemakers can take their storytelling about strategy execution to the next level. Don't be too analytical to your audience, just use the selection filters and goal connections to share your perspectives and calls for action.

–dobee is highly intuitive and surprisingly easy to use, efficiently sharing "the one truth" with the entire organisation (Lisa, CEO, Financial Industry)

Most of us have painful work to do. We are busy making good decisions, we are busy coordinating our resources, and we are busy getting things done. On top of that, we need to fight fires coming up from nowhere. Can you cut me some slack?

dobee is killing more pain then ever 🙌

Are you a leader preparing yet another big PowerPoint presentation about the execution of your strategy?
Simplify it with dobee: Reduce the number of static slides and add dobee storytelling with real-time data in your meetings. Start your story in the strategy page or overview and click into the most relevant goals and results you need to focus on. Let your audience see how the most important results are developing along the timeline. Show progress colours and risk flags, follow the result and share exciting highlights as you go.

Are you a CFO with excellent numerical skills, but people are falling asleep in your presentations?
Spice it up with dobee: Numbers can be very exciting for a broad audience if you put the numbers into context, add some exciting stories and discuss why numbers are developing as they are. Start in Overview or Insight and focus on a few numbers instead of an overwhelming "wall" of indicators. If you want to keep it simple, you can even use the new KPI board in dobee and connect it to your best data sources.

Are you a trusted changemaker who just got another high-priority strategic initiative on your table?
Kickstart it with dobee: Push the green 'New Goal' button and get the guiding you need, powered by dobee AI or just a manual wizard. We see that people are struggling with PowerPoint, Excel and time-consuming project plans, so the flow in dobee has been significantly improved this year. Experienced dobee users are making an appealing goal page in less than 30 minutes.

Are you responsible for achieving a measurable result, yet depending on efforts from a lot of other people?
Update smarter with dobee: Your first pain is to update your result easy enough. Many customers don't have automatic data sources, so dobee has made any update extremely efficient for you. The easiest ways are the buttons on My Page or Leadership. The next pain is to engage people and encourage them to make contributions that matter. It's easier than ever! Use dobee to answer these three questions frequently: 1) What's the number? 2) Will we reach the target in time? 3) Any highlights we can learn from?

Are you a busy employee, yet willing to make some small extra efforts if the company needs it?
Find dobee in your pocket: dobee has become even more mobile friendly, so it's time to save it on your mobile home screen if you haven't done it yet. Click on the d-icon and land on MyPage. Your personal onboarding menu is on top to give you a good start, but you also find the big strategy and all active goals waiting for your effort. Pick your favourites, take a look at it and click the contribute-button if you feel for it 🥰. Easy-peasy!

Summarised, dobee is easier than ever. dobee is relieving pains and killing pains. Any new pain for any new user is our next challenge. 🦾

– Our board wants to see that we win our battles and deliver the value-creation plan, and dobee makes it easy for us. (Marius, CFO, PE-owned growth company)

Too many leaders have bad experience with new software solutions, and too many leaders are laggards when it comes to agile implementation of new technologies in their companies. User adoption is key to succeed, but leaders and changemakers need to stand up, take the risk and wait for the reward. That's painful, of course.

Recent painkillers from dobee: 🙌

🔐 Single Sign-On (SSO) has been in operation for a long time, but many customers have not activated it. Now, we recommend all companies to activate SSO from the start. It provides stronger security for the company and the users don't need to worry about another password.

✈️ Personalised onboarding for the users has lately been improved. New users can be invited into dobee in many ways, but always land on My Page after login. The onboarding menu is on top and almost impossible to ignore. If you know how to use LinkedIn or Facebook, it is easy to use dobee,. Just take a look at the guiding videos and play around for a few minutes. 🎮

– dobee is a professional software that makes me smile. Efficient, but also intuitive and playful. dobee has inspired me to become a more positive and playful leader (Dirk, Director Innovation, Public sector)