Run a living annual plan in Teams
Fingertip turns your annual plan into a living leadership rhythm.
Build an Annual Clock that connects meetings, strategic objectives, and key milestones into one shared view inside Microsoft Teams.
Designed for CEOs, CFOs, board members, and strategy leaders who need predictable execution, clear ownership, and always accurate situation.
Fix your annual planning system
Annual plans fail for one reason: they do not live where leadership work happens. In Teams, work moves fast, but the plans stay put without a dedicated system.
Problems with the old way of leading:
- The plan is “done” and then disappears
Annual planning happens once in December. After that, teams return to their own calendars, and the plan is lost by February. - Critical moments have no single owner
Board cycles, budget gates, launches, and reviews exist, but nobody owns the year as a whole. - Cross-team handoffs fail in silence
One team’s milestone depends on another team’s progress, which is not visible. Delays cascade and the organization reacts too late.
Fingertip annual clock solution:
- The year becomes a managed operating cadence
Leadership rhythm is explicit in Teams. Strategy reviews, decision points, and milestones stay visible as part of execution. - The year has clear accountability and checkpoints
Each major milestone has one Accountable leader and agreed review points. Leaders can steer the year with constant awareness. - Plans stay linked to real work and reality
Milestones connect to meetings, decisions, and actions in Teams. When reality changes, leaders adjust the clock.
“Fingertip connects long-term strategic initiatives and short-term actions into manageable, trackable work.”
Director of Operations
Transportation
“Before, strategy lived in a deck and the year lived in calendars. Now they are the same thing.”
Strategy Director
Professional Services
“We were pleasantly surprised the annual clock spans multiple years. In long-term work, you must see the big picture.”
COO
Construction
Build a cross-team annual clock directly in Teams
Configure up to five rings from Teams Collections, Plans, Planner, or Outlook calendars, creating a single annual clock in-context securely.
Each ring represents a team’s responsibilities, so leaders compare functions over time and spot collisions without consolidating spreadsheets manually weekly.
Impact: fewer overlapping initiatives, faster reprioritisation, and more predictable delivery, measured by fewer deadline breaches and less portfolio rework quarterly.
Annual clock updates
from real work
Annual clock items are Fingertip activators, tasks, plans, objectives, and milestones, so updates flow automatically across Teams contexts today continuously.
Teams members update status, dates, and lifecycle once, and the same truth appears on the clock, lists, and Gantt views.
Impact: 30–40% less reporting time and fewer stale plans, because leadership visibility is built from execution, not presentation cycles monthly.
Surface risk early
with progress signals
Switch the color mode to progress, and the clock displays green, yellow, and red signals for each item’s health instantly.
Leaders drill into any red segment to see the owner, latest update, and underlying work, then steer resources accordingly within Teams.
Impact: earlier intervention, fewer late surprises, and fewer cascading delays, measured by reduced slippage and higher on-time completion rates year-round.
Where customers use Fingertip
Use cases
Fingertip is used when accountability and follow-through matter. These use cases are common decisions we see across leadership teams using Fingertip.
Leadership Team annual plan
Set the leadership year into a single rhythm. Dependencies become visible early, so leaders act before bottlenecks form.
Department annual clock
Give each function a clear yearly plan that matches the leadership cadence. Stay aligned on timing, handoffs, and capacity without cross-team calendar chaos.
Strategic Goals annual clock
Place strategic objectives on the year and attach milestones with accountable owners. Progress becomes visible in real time, not a quarterly status update.
Marketing annual clock
Plan marketing’s year in Teams with a shared annual clock: campaigns, milestones, owners, and dependencies in one view.
Easy to adopt. Safe to trust. Fast time to value.
Adopting a leadership system should feel controlled, not risky. Fingertip runs inside Microsoft Teams and fits your existing M365 structures, permissions, and governance. We structure Teams around your established leadership processes, and ensure adoption of the new model.
Fully inside your
Microsoft 365 tenant
Fingertip works in your Teams environment and follows your existing controls and safety. Leadership work and data stays in your governance.
Start small with
proven rollout
Begin with one clear use case and one team. We map your leadership process into Teams with clear structure and a simple rhythm that people follow.
A leadership model that sticks
We define and train you a repeatable way to lead, that gets results. The Teams-native system makes the model measurable and accountable.
Lead the year with a real-time plan and visibility
Static plans turn to surprises and failures to meet deadlines and expected quality.
Fingertip makes the year’s rhythm, ownership, and progress visible with a proven playbook and coaching so the operating model sticks.
Book a 30-minute discovery call and start with a risk-free 14-day trial.
Annual planning isn’t your most urgent pain right now?
Leadership team operating model
Align roles, decision rights, and recurring leadership cadences so execution becomes predictable.
Project and program leadership
Bring steering, decisions, and follow-through into one Teams-native system for real-time control.
Objectives management
Strategic alignment, transparency, and commitment in daily operations.
Frequently asked questions
What is an annual clock, and why does it matter?
An annual clock is a visible plan for the year’s strategic rhythm: key cycles, milestones, and decision points. It prevents last-minute firefighting by making timing, dependencies, and ownership explicit.
How does this differ from Excel, PowerPoint, or a shared calendar?
Those tools document a plan, but they do not run it. Fingertip keeps the plan connected to owners, decisions, and follow-through inside Teams, so progress stays current without rebuilding slides.
How does this differ from Microsoft Planner or Project?
Planner and Project manage tasks and schedules. Fingertip runs the leadership governance layer: the annual rhythm, accountable ownership (ARI), decision trail, and cross-team visibility inside your Teams structure.
What is the ROI for the leadership team?
Less time spent aligning, rebuilding status packs, and reopening the same discussions. More predictable execution because priorities, milestones, and ownership stay visible and reviewed on a cadence.
How do we keep the plan from becoming a reporting exercise?
Fingertip links the annual clock to real work and decision points. Reviews focus on what moved, what is stuck, and what needs a decision, not on rewriting a narrative.
Who uses it day to day?
Strategy leads and PMO maintain the structure, but owners update their own milestones as part of normal Teams work. Executives use it for situational awareness and decision-ready reviews.
How fast can we go live?
You can start with one annual clock and one team, then expand. With guided adoption, most teams establish a working rhythm within 6 to 8 weeks.
Is it secure, and does data leave our environment?
Fingertip runs inside your Microsoft 365 tenant with a No-SaaS architecture. Your leadership data stays under your existing M365 security, permissions, and governance.
Will this change how we already work in Teams?
It formalizes what you already do by giving it a clear structure: shared objects for the annual rhythm, consistent roles, and a repeatable review cadence. The operating model changes, not the daily tools.
What does success look like after the first plans?
A single annual clock your leaders actually use, clear ARI ownership on key milestones, and a review rhythm where progress and decisions are visible without manual chasing.
Ready to make annual planning drive business outcomes?
Fingertip helps your teams plan their annual goals and execution safely, predictably, and inside Microsoft Teams.
Get in touch with us to get started!