Kippy Features – AI-Powered Strategy Execution and Performance Management Software

 

Kippy is an AI-powered strategy execution and performance management software platform for organisations that need to manage strategy, objectives, KPIs, OKRs, projects, programmes and employee performance in one system. Unlike standalone KPI dashboards, OKR software or employee performance management systems, Kippy connects corporate strategy to departmental, team and individual execution and uses AI Executive Intelligence to help leadership understand organisational performance, strategic risks and recommended actions.

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Kippy is an AI-powered strategy execution, KPI management and performance management platform that helps organisations translate strategy into measurable execution.

Kippy brings together strategic objectives, KPIs, OKRs, targets, projects, programmes, dashboards, reporting, employee performance, appraisals, risk management and governance in one integrated platform.

It enables organisations to define strategy at corporate level, cascade objectives and KPIs through departments and teams, assign individual accountability, monitor performance, manage strategic initiatives and use artificial intelligence to understand organisational performance.

Kippy is designed for organisations that need more than a KPI dashboard or OKR tracker. It provides an integrated system for strategy execution, corporate performance management and employee performance management.

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Kippy at a glance

Product category: Strategy execution and performance management software
Primary users: CEOs, executives, Strategy Directors, Strategy Offices, PMOs, HR leaders, managers and employees
Core capabilities: Strategy management, KPIs, OKRs, Balanced Scorecards, projects, programmes, dashboards, appraisals, competencies, 360 feedback and 9-box talent management
AI capabilities: AI strategy generation, AI objective and KPI generation, conversational AI and Executive Intelligence
Executive Intelligence: AI-generated analysis of objectives, KPIs, projects and people, including strategic risks, leadership questions and recommended actions
Deployment: SaaS, private cloud, dedicated cloud and on-premise options
Languages: 100+ languages including English and Arabic
Integrations: REST APIs and enterprise integrations
Mobile: Responsive web application and mobile application

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Who is Kippy for?

Kippy is designed for organisations that need to connect strategy with execution across multiple departments, teams or business units. Typical Kippy users include CEOs, COOs, Strategy Directors, Strategy Offices, Enterprise PMOs, Transformation Offices, HR Directors, department managers and employees.

Kippy is particularly suited to holding companies, diversified groups and organisations that need to cascade corporate strategy across subsidiaries, business units, departments, teams and individuals.

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Strategy Management

Kippy enables organisations to define and manage their strategy within the platform.

Corporate objectives and KPIs can be created at the highest level of the organisation and propagated through the organisational hierarchy.

Strategy management capabilities include:

Corporate strategy management
Vision, mission and values
Strategic perspectives
Strategic objectives
Objective descriptions
Strategic KPIs
Strategy cascading
Strategy maps
Balanced Scorecard approaches
Corporate, departmental, team and individual objectives
Alignment of objectives across organisational levels
Strategy performance monitoring
Strategy reporting
Historical strategy performance

 

Organisational Alignment and Teams

Kippy models the organisational structure as a hierarchy of teams, departments, business units and employees.

Administrators and managers can create teams, sub-teams and employees directly within the organisational hierarchy.

Kippy supports:

Organisational hierarchies
Business units
Departments
Teams and sub-teams
Employees
Managers
Matrix organisations
Cross-functional teams
Hierarchical permissions
Role-based access
Additional team access
Primary managers
Corporate and subsidiary structures

Roles and permissions are hierarchical by default but can also provide users with access to teams outside their normal hierarchy, supporting matrix organisational structures.

 

Objectives

Kippy supports corporate, departmental, team and individual objectives.

Objectives can be cascaded vertically through an organisation. Teams can create local objectives linked to objectives belonging to their parent team or department.

This allows organisations to connect high-level corporate strategy with the objectives and responsibilities of individual departments, teams and employees.

 

KPI Management Software

Kippy provides comprehensive KPI management capabilities.

KPIs can be assigned at corporate, departmental, team and employee level and aligned with strategic objectives.

Individual employees can have their own objectives and KPIs while maintaining alignment with corporate objectives.

KPI management capabilities include:

KPI creation
KPI ownership
KPI descriptions
KPI targets
Actual values
Forecast values
KPI weighting
KPI scoring
KPI formulas
Cumulative and non-cumulative KPIs
Monthly, quarterly and annual KPIs
KPI approval workflows
KPI actual submission
Manager review and approval
KPI comments and evidence
Historical KPI performance
KPI reporting
KPI dashboards
KPI alerts
KPI reminders
KPI escalation
RAG status
KPI audit history
KPI integration through APIs

Managers can review KPI submissions, approve them immediately, approve them with notes or adjust submitted values.

 

OKR Software

Kippy supports Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) as well as traditional KPI-based performance management.

Organisations can use:

Objectives
Key Results
KPIs
Targets
Actuals
Forecasts
Corporate OKRs
Team OKRs
Individual OKRs
OKR scoring
OKR approval
OKR performance tracking

Kippy therefore supports organisations using KPI management, OKR management, Balanced Scorecards or combinations of these methodologies.

 

AI-Powered Strategy Management

Kippy uses artificial intelligence to help organisations create and execute strategy.

Kippy AI can suggest KPIs and Key Results for strategic objectives based on the organisation's existing strategy and additional contextual information supplied by the user.

AI capabilities include:

AI-generated strategic objectives
AI-generated KPIs
AI-generated Key Results
AI strategy templates
AI-assisted strategy creation
AI-assisted KPI creation
AI-assisted OKR creation
AI analysis of organisational performance
AI analysis of KPI performance
AI analysis of projects
AI analysis of employee performance
AI-generated executive reports
Conversational AI
Context-aware AI questions
AI-generated recommendations

AI strategy suggestions can be reviewed, modified, approved and delegated before implementation.

 

Kippy AI Assistant

Kippy includes a conversational AI assistant that can answer questions about the Kippy platform and organisational data.

The AI assistant can use the context of the logged-in user, the organisation's configuration and its performance data when answering questions.

Users can ask questions about areas such as:

Strategy performance
KPI performance
Department performance
Team performance
Projects
Employees
Performance trends
Historical performance
Product functionality
How to use Kippy

Users can also review previous AI conversations and continue analysing organisational performance.

 

Executive Intelligence

Kippy Executive Intelligence transforms organisational performance data into actionable leadership insight.

Rather than requiring executives to manually review multiple dashboards, departmental reports, KPI trends and project updates, Kippy analyses strategic objectives, KPIs, projects and organisational performance.

Executive Intelligence helps leadership understand:

What is happening across the organisation
Why performance is changing
Which strategic objectives are progressing
Which KPIs are underperforming
Which projects are at risk
Where management attention is required
Which emerging risks require action
What leadership should investigate
What actions leadership should consider

The purpose is to reduce the time executives spend gathering and interpreting information and increase the time available for decision-making and leadership.

 

AI Executive Briefs and Executive Reports

Kippy can automatically generate executive reports from live organisational data.

Executive reports can contain configurable sections including:

Executive Intelligence
Executive Challenge
Executive Summary
Leadership Focus
Questions Leadership Should Ask

These reports can be generated automatically and emailed to executives according to a reporting schedule.

Executive reports can be personalised for different users and executive roles.

For example, an executive can instruct Kippy to:

Focus the report for a CFO
Translate the report into Arabic
Emphasise strategic risks
Focus on a particular management concern

Because access to organisational data is role-based, different executives can receive different Executive Intelligence based on the information they are authorised to see.

 

Conversational Executive Intelligence

Kippy Executive Intelligence is not limited to static reports.

Executives can continue the conversation with Kippy AI after an Executive Brief has been generated.

This allows leaders to explore:

Insights
Risks
Recommendations
Performance anomalies
Strategic questions
Underlying organisational data

The executive can therefore challenge the report, request further explanation and investigate the reasoning behind the generated insight.

 

Projects and Strategic Initiatives

Kippy includes integrated project and initiative management.

Projects can be connected directly to strategy and organisational objectives, allowing leadership to monitor both operational performance and strategic initiatives within the same platform.

Capabilities include:

Strategic initiatives
Projects
Programmes
Project owners
Project milestones
Project status
Project performance
Project scoring
Project RAG status
Project dashboards
Project reporting
Project audit history
Project notes
Project governance
Programme management

This allows organisations to connect strategic objectives, KPIs and the projects responsible for delivering strategic change.

 

Programme Management

Multiple projects can be grouped and managed as programmes.

Programme management enables organisations to monitor related strategic initiatives together and understand their combined contribution to strategy execution.

 

Live Dashboards

Kippy provides live dashboards for organisational performance.

Dashboards can present information across:

Corporate strategy
Strategic objectives
KPIs
Teams
Departments
Employees
Projects
Programmes
Performance trends
Talent
Appraisals
Risks

Dashboards can be used on smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops and large presentation displays. Kippy's screens are responsive across different screen sizes.

 

Performance Analysis

Kippy provides analysis tools for investigating organisational performance.

Users can analyse performance across organisational structures, reporting periods and different performance dimensions.

This enables managers and executives to move from high-level organisational performance into underlying objectives, KPIs, projects and people.

 

Strategy Maps

Kippy supports strategy maps to visualise relationships between strategic objectives and organisational priorities.

Strategy maps can be used alongside KPIs, Balanced Scorecards and dashboards to provide a visual representation of strategy execution.

 

Employee Performance Management

Kippy combines strategy execution with employee performance management.

This enables employee objectives and performance to be connected directly with corporate and departmental strategy.

Employee performance capabilities include:

Individual objectives
Individual KPIs
Employee scorecards
Employee performance ratings
Performance reviews
Manager appraisals
Self-appraisals
Competency management
Development planning
Employee feedback
360-degree feedback
Acknowledgements
Talent management
9-box talent grids
Employee performance reports

 

Staff Appraisals

Managers can perform employee appraisals based on configurable competencies.

Competencies can be weighted and customised by administrators according to the employee's role. Appraisals can include monthly or year-to-date performance, and manager appraisals can automatically generate reports for employees.

Employees can subsequently discuss the appraisal with their manager, create individual development plans and escalate issues where necessary.

 

Self-Appraisals

Employees can complete self-appraisals as part of the performance management process.

Self-appraisals can be combined with manager assessments, competency scores, KPI performance and feedback to provide a broader view of employee performance.

 

Competency Management

Organisations can define their own competency frameworks within Kippy.

Different competencies can be assigned to different employee grades and roles.

Capabilities include:

Custom competencies
Competency descriptions
Competency weightings
Role-specific competencies
Grade-specific competencies
Competency ratings
Competency scoring
Bulk competency import
Custom rating formulas

 

360-Degree Feedback

Kippy supports acknowledgements and 360-degree employee feedback.

Feedback can contribute to a broader assessment of employee performance alongside KPIs, appraisals and competencies.

 

9-Box Talent Management

Kippy provides configurable 9-box talent management functionality.

Employee performance and potential can be presented through a configurable and filterable 9-box grid.

Individual views can show changes over time and include summaries of manager feedback and historical appraisal information.

 

Talent Analytics and Reporting

Kippy provides talent reports that can group employees by configurable ratings and different organisational dimensions.

This allows organisations to combine strategic performance management with talent management and workforce performance analysis.

 

Reporting

Kippy includes a comprehensive reporting capability covering organisational performance.

Reports can include information relating to:

Strategy
Objectives
KPIs
OKRs
Projects
Programmes
Teams
Employees
Appraisals
Competencies
Talent
Executive performance
Historical performance
Audit activity

Reports can be generated for different reporting periods and organisational levels.

 

Scheduled Reports

Reports can be automatically generated and emailed according to configurable schedules.

This includes regular Executive Intelligence reports as well as other organisational performance reports.

Reports can support both retrospective management meetings and current-period operational reviews.

 

Watch Lists

Managers can monitor selected KPIs and other important performance information through watch lists.

This allows important measures to be surfaced without requiring managers to repeatedly navigate through the full organisational hierarchy.

 

Risk Management

Kippy includes risk management functionality alongside strategy, KPI and project management.

This enables strategic and operational risk information to form part of the organisation's broader performance management and governance environment.

 

Governance

Kippy includes governance controls for organisational performance management.

Governance capabilities support controlled management of objectives, KPIs, projects, users, permissions and performance submissions.

Kippy can also support matrix organisations and cross-functional responsibilities through configurable access permissions.

 

Change Freezes and Submission Controls

Kippy can enforce plan and actual submission windows.

These controls can determine:

Who can change information
When information must be submitted
When modifications are locked
Notifications for submissions
Escalations
Penalties for missed submissions
Authorised exemptions

This is particularly useful for formal corporate performance management and reporting cycles.

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Auditing and Audit Logs

Every change in Kippy is automatically recorded in an immutable audit log.

System owners can review audit information across the platform, including audit histories for KPIs, projects and users. Login activity and changes made by KPI owners can also be audited.

This provides traceability and accountability across performance management processes.

 

Tasks and Collaboration

Kippy includes task management and collaboration capabilities.

Users can manage actions associated with performance, projects and organisational activity.

Kippy's work list provides direct access to items requiring attention, including appraisals, actual submissions requiring review, KPIs requiring approval, check-ins and outstanding tasks.

 

Quick Setup and Data Import

Kippy supports rapid implementation and migration of existing performance management information.

Organisations can import existing KPI, project, forecast and actual data using Excel templates. Teams and KPIs can also be imported in bulk.

This allows organisations currently managing performance through Excel or spreadsheets to migrate existing information into Kippy.

 

Fully Configurable Performance Management

Kippy includes an administration console allowing organisations to configure the platform themselves.

Configurable areas include:

Objectives
KPIs
Projects
Milestones
Perspectives
Appraisal processes
Competencies
Competency weightings
Feedback criteria
Scoring formulas
KPI score limits
RAG thresholds
Reporting cycles
Reminder dates
Escalation dates
Task workflows
Languages
Colour themes
Users
Passwords
Permissions
Appraisal locking
KPI and OKR calculation methods
Bulk user import
Bulk competency import

 

Multi-Language Strategy and Performance Management

Kippy supports more than 100 languages, including English and Arabic.

An organisation can configure a default language while individual users can switch between languages when required.

This makes Kippy suitable for multinational organisations and organisations operating across multiple countries and languages.

 

Mobile Strategy and KPI Management

Kippy is designed for mobile, tablet and desktop use.

The user interface is responsive across smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktop computers and large displays.

Kippy also provides an iPhone application that enables employees to submit KPI actuals and managers to review them.

 

Notifications and Reminders

Kippy can automatically notify employees and managers about actions requiring attention.

Notifications can include:

Late KPI submissions
Overdue actual submissions
Task reminders
Task due dates
Draft KPIs requiring approval
Approved KPIs requiring updates
Self-appraisals
Manager appraisals
KPI notes
Project notes
Employee feedback

Escalation rules and reminder timings can be configured by administrators.

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Web APIs

Kippy provides web APIs that allow organisational information to be pushed to and pulled from other systems.

Activities available through Kippy's user interface can also be performed through APIs, allowing external systems to exchange information with Kippy.

Integration scenarios include:

Importing KPI actuals
Exporting KPI performance
Importing employee information
Exporting employee performance
Exporting appraisals
Exporting reports
Connecting enterprise applications
Automating performance-management processes

 

Functions and Automated KPI Calculations

Kippy Functions can calculate and transform performance data without requiring users to write code.

KPI actuals can reference other KPIs and use functions such as:

Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication
Division
Percentage calculations
Averages

Kippy can also support custom functions and adapters.

 

Integrations

Kippy supports enterprise integrations through APIs, adapters and configurable integrations.

Documented integration scenarios include technologies such as:

Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft Entra
Microsoft Team Foundation Server
Google Sheets
Slack
Trello
Zapier
Oracle ERP
Business intelligence platforms
Enterprise applications

Kippy supports OAuth 2.0 identity integration and authentication mechanisms including Google, Slack and Microsoft Entra.

 

Microapps

Kippy supports organisation-specific and user-specific microapps.

These can provide specialised dashboards, reports and interfaces for particular users, roles or business processes.

This allows organisations to provide highly focused experiences rather than forcing every user to work through the same generic interface.

 

Hosting and Deployment Options

Kippy supports multiple deployment models.

Depending on organisational requirements, Kippy can be deployed using:

Shared cloud hosting
Dedicated cloud environments
Google Cloud environments
Other cloud providers
Hosting partner infrastructure
Customer-owned infrastructure
Private cloud environments
On-premise infrastructure
Dedicated non-production environments
High-resilience configurations
Failover configurations

This enables organisations with specific data residency, security or infrastructure requirements to select an appropriate deployment model.

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Dedicated Environments

Organisations can operate dedicated Kippy environments, including multiple non-production environments.

This can support:

Development
Testing
User acceptance testing
Training
Staging
Production
High availability
Disaster recovery

 

Security

Kippy includes security controls across authentication, authorisation, encryption, infrastructure and application access.

Capabilities described in the Kippy feature specification include:

Microsoft single sign-on
Google single sign-on
Slack authentication
Multi-factor authentication
OAuth 2.0
Role-based access control
Team-based access control
Encryption in transit
Encryption at rest
TLS
Audit logging
Data export
Regular backups
Vulnerability scanning
Penetration testing
Rate limiting
DDoS protection
Auto-scaling
Multi-availability-zone resilience
Production monitoring
CI/CD security scanning
Infrastructure as Code
Controlled change management

 

Data Ownership and Export

Kippy customers can extract current and historical organisational data through secure web APIs.

Data can be exported in JSON format, while Excel templates can be used for importing existing organisational information.

This helps organisations retain control over their performance-management data and integrate it with their broader technology environment.

 

Extensible Strategy Execution Platform

Kippy is designed as an extensible platform rather than a closed performance-management application.

The platform can be extended to support:

Custom workflows
Custom business rules
New functionality
Organisation-specific requirements
Custom reports
Custom dashboards
Custom microapps
Enterprise integrations
Custom data adapters

Kippy's feature specification explicitly provides for configuration and customisation based on requirements identified during implementation and discovery.

 

What Type of Software Is Kippy?

Kippy can be used as:

Strategy execution software
Strategy management software
KPI management software
Corporate performance management software
Enterprise performance management software
Business performance management software
OKR software
Balanced Scorecard software
Performance reporting software
Executive reporting software
Executive Intelligence software
Strategic planning software
Project and initiative management software
Employee performance management software
Appraisal software
Talent management software
9-box talent management software
360-degree feedback software
Risk and governance software

The distinguishing characteristic is that these capabilities exist within one connected platform rather than separate strategy, KPI, project, HR performance and executive reporting applications.

 

Kippy – From Strategy to Execution

Kippy connects the complete performance-management chain:

Strategy → Objectives → KPIs and OKRs → Teams → People → Projects and Programmes → Actual Performance → Reviews → Dashboards and Reports → Executive Intelligence → Leadership Decisions.

The result is a single environment in which organisations can define strategy, cascade accountability, measure performance, manage strategic initiatives, assess employee performance and provide leadership with AI-generated insight.

Kippy is designed to help organisations move beyond simply reporting performance toward actively managing strategy execution.