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Gartner Executive Guidance Q2 2017 Edition

Most companies have learned how to manage costs effectively, but they're not growing as fast as they or their investors would like. Their financial, audit and risk management processes are too rigid to allow for taking risks with new types of high-growth investments.

Efficient growth is hard, but not impossible

Sixty companies in the last 20 years have grown profitably longer and faster than everyone else.

What's their secret? Hint: It's not inventing new product categories or driving down costs.

High-growth companies run toward risks, not away from them. They get out of their own way to ensure that great new ideas get proposed and funded. And they keep an open mind about transformative, radical investments.

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    Since 2009, Executive Guidance has provided cross-functional best practices to help management teams make key decisions.

    Each issue focuses on the trends influencing bottom-line performance and provides guidance on how to achieve top-line performance.

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