http://www.successfactors.com/blogs/business-execution Execution is the Difference. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ There are things that human nature always seems to be keen on talking about. One of them is the weather. I just looked at Facebook and counted 8 of the top 12 posts talking about the rain in CA. The other area is of course the economy.  And the number ... http://www.successfactors.com/blogs/business-execution/so-the-economy-is-recovering-but-are-you/ You've probably seen the recent news declaring the end to the recession, or technically the end. The news has been met with little or no fanfare since most people still feel like it's a recession and likely will for quite some time. However, for Businesses, it does beg the question:  "What now?" Here ... http://www.successfactors.com/blogs/business-execution/recessionrecovery/ Here at SuccessFactors we're obsessed about driving real impact on companies top and bottom line from smart usage of SuccessFactors. SF Research is all about researching, quantifying and sharing leading practice for this. In this guest post from Chris Thorman at SoftwareAdvice you can read about how companies can ... http://www.successfactors.com/blogs/business-execution/save-some-green/ Today it’s been stated that testing your DNA to assess your potential and how you should train to excel in sports is where sports nutrition used to be a couple of decades ago. On the plane the other night I read this article from Bicycling magazine and it’s really becoming ... http://www.successfactors.com/blogs/business-execution/dna-test-for-people-performance/ We’ve been talking about how companies can drive better results from better execution throughout the lifetime of this blog. With this launch of a new software category Business Execution Software we decided to explicitly rename this blog. Welcome to our new born or reincarnated Business Execution blog. Lars, our founder and ... http://www.successfactors.com/blogs/business-execution/business-execution/ Which is more important?   It’s a bit of a chicken vs. egg argument, but it’s fair to say that both are critical to driving positive financial results.   Put it this way, if defining strategy explains 15% of a company’s financial performance then 85% must be explained by the execution of ... http://www.successfactors.com/blogs/business-execution/strategy-definition-or-strategy-executionae/