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How connected are you?

Erik Berggren — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:50:22 +0000

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…

Doing more with less

Erik Berggren — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:26:23 +0000

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…

On SuccessFactors

Erik Berggren — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:39:13 +0000

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.…

…but if I don’t know what to do?

Erik Berggren — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:08:45 +0000

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…

How am I doing?

Erik Berggren — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:24:13 +0000

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…

Excellence in execution is infrastructure

Erik Berggren — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:36:26 +0000

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…

Someone’s getting it done

Erik Berggren — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:14:47 +0000

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…

Save some green…

Erik Berggren — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:57:23 +0000

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…

DNA test for people performance

Erik Berggren — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:47:38 +0000

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…

Business Execution

Erik Berggren — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:29:53 +0000

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…