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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

Are you focusing opex and capex on these priorities in order to build competitively differentiated capabilities? It also placed a team charged with ensuring an excellent experience for each customer segment. They make sure that the most important battles are entrusted to agile, cross-functional teams with real authority and support.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index.