53% of B2B customer loyalty is driven by the selling process
Hiring managers report that quality of hire is down 17% since before the recession
Firms whose employees rate their firm’s cultures high on our integrity index outperformed peers by more than 16% in 10 year total shareholder return
While industry cost leaders drove to a nine percentage point gross margin advantage over peers by reducing product costs by 5.8%, they tended to carry above-average SG&A costs

Achieving Intelligent Growth: Insights from the Best Companies

How can you drive toward Intelligent Growth?

As the world economy emerges from the Great Recession, 2011 is proving to be vital as companies seek to internalize key lessons and build new management disciplines that enable Intelligent Growth. In our Executive Guidance for 2011 we looked at the differentiating factors of companies that consistently outperformed peers coming out of periods of economic turmoil.

Our findings bring a new sense of urgency: Successful companies operated very differently in the early stages of economic recovery, which is exactly the period that companies are operating in right now. As you move through 2011, download the e-book of our research and watch our webinar now to learn how to achieve Intelligent Growth for your company.