Driving shareholder return through business execution
SuccessFactors, Inc., a global company specialized in business execution software, recently published the results of the study “How Companies Leverage Business Execution Software to Drive Excess Shareholder Return”, completed in collaboration with The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. This study shows that companies tend to achieve higher industry-adjusted stock returns when they set and align goals, rate users on the achievement of these goals, used more variance in performance feedback, and leverage business execution software to increase their ability to execute (SuccessFactors, 2011).
