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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

PepsiCo is also a case study in the vertical health of the organization: getting to the right number of layers. Nearly every function from marketing to human resources and finance was replicated at each level: Enterprise functions and infrastructure. Today, large companies need the benefits of both. #2: a) Agility.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

The firm also started growing rapidly through M&A, acquiring Crimson, an analytics, data, and business intelligence software provider focused on analytics related to physician performance, healthcare practice quality and cost management in 2008. In 2010, the firm established a new office in San Francisco.

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Research: Self-Disruption Can Hurt the Companies That Need It the Most

Harvard Business

For our study, we collected data on 512 strategic initiatives, both centralized and decentralized, launched by 48 leading U.S. electric utilities during 2008-2015—a period in which the decentralized model was in its uncertain, nascent phase. We validated our quantitative approach by reviewing several case studies of U.S.

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