An effective business process is built on a set of well-defined and clearly stated business objectives. These objectives articulate the ideal performance results that the company expects from that process. To monitor a business process so it stays focused on reaching the key objectives, the company chooses appropriate performance measures.

This document includes key performance measures a company can use to improve its capital planning process. Example performance measures include percentage of the total compensation of decision-makers that is tied to shareholder value added (SVA) performance and percentage of decision-makers' compensation tied to SVA.