Metronome Growth Systems

Pros

As the name suggests, Metronome can help companies keep a steady beat towards progress by helping you track company vision, priorities, metrics, scorecards and meeting agendas. Everyone has access to all the above, which really helps with transparency and efficiently keeping everyone on the same page. Although there are a lot of features, it's pretty intuitive to learn and use. Lots of options/flexibility for how you can structure meetings, metrics and priorities so that it works for you. I'm a huge fan of keeping everything tracked and written down for easy access and this software definitely allows for this!

Cons

It can be a bit glitchy at times, even if you've been granted full access to a particular page to make changes. There were times when I wasn't able to edit, even though I've been granted access. Colleagues have also reported not being able to edit the dates of meetings, even if they were the ones who created the meeting.

Pros

If you work in a company that uses metrics, this is hands down the best software you will use. You can easily track individual or corporate metrics. Scorecards (job descriptions) are in metronome too, so any time you make a change to score card, your metrics can be updated in the same place. You can roll the metrics from quarter to quarter and easily move the responsibly from person to person.

Cons

Once you make a change to metrics, it rolls forward and backwards - say your metrics is orders shipped and in details you have a note which search you use, the same note will go to the previous quarter as well as any future quarters ...

Pros

The entire dashboard is customizable and well thought out, there is even a tab that allows you to fill out all huddles from one screen.

Cons

Lack of integrations/ability to automate data input or connect with other platforms, (Slack, Google Docs, Zapier, Excel, etc.)

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Switching to Metronome Growth Systems

Pros

Has all the elements required (and more) to focus and align the business on strategy and relentless execution. Provides plenty of options for different priority/metric types. Has the flexibility to customise your own one-page strategic plan. Love the war room to capture pictures and work product from workshops. As a coach, it is a great enabler for me to keep track of all my clients and see how well they are following through on the plan.

Cons

Some of the text font/colour editings can be improved.

Pros

Easy to use software that helps you fluidly adopt and integrate a cascading goal setting and tracking rhythm into your organization to achieve team alignment and drive predictable growth. It is structured but flexible enough to support different styles.

Cons

Its not the software's fault but implementing a goal setting and tracking system is organizationally painful. Not sure how we would have achieved it with out MGS.