NCT for Enterprise
Replace your OKR spreadsheets with a framework that actually connects strategy to execution. NCT gives large organizations the structure they need without the bureaucracy they're trying to escape.
Sound familiar?
The problems NCT was built to fix
Problem 1
OKRs have become a compliance exercise, not a strategy tool
Every quarter, teams spend weeks writing OKRs that leadership reviews once and nobody references again. The framework was supposed to create alignment — instead it created a parallel bureaucracy that runs alongside the actual work.
Problem 2
Strategy lives in slides, execution lives in Jira — and nobody connects them
The VP presents the strategy at the all-hands. The teams go back to their boards. Three months later, the retro reveals that half the work didn't connect to the strategy at all. The gap isn't ambition — it's architecture.
Problem 3
Alignment across 10+ teams takes a full quarter to establish
By the time every team has cascaded their OKRs, aligned dependencies, and resolved conflicts, a month of the quarter is gone. The planning process itself has become the bottleneck.
How it works
Three layers — built for enterprise teams
Every layer of NCT maps directly to how enterprise teams already think about their work.
Replace cascading OKRs with shared Narratives that every team can read and understand. Narratives describe the customer or business problem — not the metric. Every team in the org can align their Commitments to the same strategic story.
Each team commits to specific, deliverable outcomes that serve the organization's Narratives. Commitments are promises, not stretch goals — which means teams can actually be held accountable.
Your existing project management stays in place. Tasks in Jira, Linear, or Asana now connect to the NCT hierarchy — giving leadership visibility from strategy to individual work items.
Real example
A Narrative for enterprise teams
"Our platform serves 200+ enterprise clients, but our incident response SLA has slipped below target for three consecutive quarters. Customer trust is eroding, and two key renewals are at risk. We need to rebuild reliability as a competitive advantage — not just fix the symptoms."
Commitments for this Narrative:
- 1Achieve 99.95% uptime for all enterprise-tier services for the full cycle
- 2Reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) for P1 incidents from 4 hours to under 1 hour
- 3Ship a customer-facing status page with real-time incident communication
Use cases
How enterprise teams use NCT
Replacing OKRs
NCT provides the strategic layer that OKRs promise but rarely deliver. Narratives replace Objectives with customer context. Commitments replace Key Results with actual deliverables. The hierarchy is enforced, not aspirational.
Multi-team coordination
When 10 teams share 5 Narratives, dependencies become visible. Teams can see who else is committing to the same strategic bet — and coordinate without a 50-person planning meeting.
Executive reporting
Narrative health scores give leadership a real-time view of strategic progress. No more slide decks — the strategy and the work live in the same system.
M&A and reorg alignment
After a merger or reorg, Narratives become the shared strategic language. New teams can align to existing Narratives or propose new ones — the framework absorbs change without collapsing.
“We replaced a 200-page OKR deck with 5 Narratives. Every team in the company knows what we're doing and why.”
— Chief of Staff, Enterprise SaaS, 400+ employees
See NCT in action
Example NCTs for enterprise teams
Achieving SOC 2 Compliance
Complete SOC 2 Type II certification to unblock enterprise sales and reduce security questionnaire burden.
Infrastructure & PlatformBuilding an Observability Stack
Implement structured logging, metrics, and alerting to reduce incident response time and improve system reliability.
Operations & ProcessOverhauling Quarterly Planning
Replace a slow, document-heavy planning process with a streamlined cycle using NCT structure.
NCT works across the whole company
Startups →
You don't need a planning department
Scale-Ups →
You've outgrown the founder's whiteboard but you're not ready for enterprise process. NCT gives growing teams alignment without the bureaucracy that slows you down.
Remote Teams →
When you can't align in the hallway, you need alignment in the system. NCT gives distributed teams a shared strategic context that works across time zones
Founders →
Stop being the single point of failure for strategic context. NCT helps founders get the strategy out of their head and into a system that the whole team can execute on.
Also works for
Product →
Stop explaining your roadmap in slides. Let your Narratives speak for themselves
Engineering →
Give your engineers the 'why' behind every ticket. Less context-switching, better decisions, and a direct line from the code they write to the strategy it serves.
Marketing →
Connect your campaigns to the customer problems they solve
Sales →
Stop tracking activity, start tracking intent. NCT gives sales teams a framework for connecting territory strategy to the actual deals and conversations that close business.
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