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Strategic Intelligence: Harnessing Data for Informed Strategy Development

These tools measure financial, marketing, production, organizational development, and innovation measures to achieve a ‘balanced’ perspective. Advances in information technology and data availability enable the gathering of more information about performance, allowing managers to take a much more analytical view of their business than before. By 1979, one study estimated that 45% of the Fortune 500 companies were using some variation of the matrix in their strategic planning.What are the 4 business strategies?Four generic business-level strategies emerge from these decisions: (1) broad cost leadership , (2) broad differentiation , (3) focused cost leadership , and (4) focused differentiation…