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Research Shows That Smaller M&A Deals Work Out Better

Harvard Business Review

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. WPP began the period in the middle of the pack, with an average economic profit of $8 million, but ended with a top-quintile-worthy $677 million and saw an 11% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in total shareholder return over the decade. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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How We Think About Innovation at Cisco

Harvard Business Review

In the manufacturing sector alone, market intelligence firm IDC expects the IoT market to grow to about $100 billion by 2018, a five-year combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18%. Operations in a Connected World. To keep up, new standards, architectures, and infrastructures will have to develop at the same pace. Insight Center.