http://www.successfactors.com/blogs/business-execution Execution is the Difference. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:50:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the recent global Connectivity Scorecard produced by Professor L. Waverman from London Business School in collaboration with LECG and Nokia Siemens Networks they have again studied how countries stack up when it comes to "Useful connectivity" Connectivity Scorecard is a global ICT index – the first of its kind to ... http://www.successfactors.com/blogs/business-execution/how-connected-are-you/ In a recent research study conducted by the Conference Board it's concluded that in 2009 the global productivity fell by 1% on average which is the first time in 19 years it's declined as measured as output per worked hour. On a global basis it is expected to grow by ... http://www.successfactors.com/blogs/business-execution/doing-more-with-less/ To execute you need to make sure your staff knows what to do and are doing it. At some level it's that simple. I read this blog from a recent customer of ours http://www.core3solutions.com/home/ A small niche IT -solutions provider. As a small business in a service industry, productivity and profitability depend ... http://www.successfactors.com/blogs/business-execution/on-successfactors/ What do you really know about your employees? Of course you know their basic employment information – Name, SSN, Race, Sex, etc…   You may even have some insight into their performance levels, but do you know enough to confidently say that “we do/do not have to correct human resources to ... http://www.successfactors.com/blogs/business-execution/enterprise20/ Last week I was talking about instant feedback as a means to drive engagement and productivity. I just read this new piece of research from the UK where they YouGov surveyed 2100 employees and found that actually only 24 per cent said that their employer had clearly articulated their ... http://www.successfactors.com/blogs/business-execution/but-if-i-dont-know-what-to-do/ There’s no shortage of reading and research married with opinions on how important it is to make sure your workforce is engaged in their job. It makes perfect sense so no real need to argue about its importance. Of course you do a better job if you care for what ... http://www.successfactors.com/blogs/business-execution/how-am-i-doing/ I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Brad Federman, author of a new book on Employee Engagement (unambiguously) titled, “Employee Engagement.”     http://theengagementfactor.wordpress.com I wanted to get his opinion on all things Engagement – What is it?  Why don’t companies understand it? What can they do about it?  He offered ... http://www.successfactors.com/blogs/business-execution/employee-engagement/ Eriks note: This is a guest post by Meri Gruber a leading expert on business execution. She blogs on the intersection of innovation and business execution at www.competingonexecution.com _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CEO’s continue to rate execution excellence as their top challenge. But what does “excellence in execution” actually mean? The CEO wants to turn ... http://www.successfactors.com/blogs/business-execution/excellence-in-execution-is-infrastructure-2/ You know we’re always talking about the execution and that nothing else is more important to drive business results than that. Obviously execution is about getting things done and the question then is rather who is executing? I read the result from this survey from our friends at McKinsey & Co. ... http://www.successfactors.com/blogs/business-execution/someone%e2%80%99s-getting-it-done/ By Mark Murphy, CEO of Leadership IQ Note to managers: Employees need a lot more feedback about their performance. According to a new study by Leadership IQ, 51% of employees don’t know whether their performance is where it should be. That’s pretty shocking, so I’ll say it again: We asked 3,611 ... http://www.successfactors.com/blogs/business-execution/performancereview/