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Listed companies share their strategic objectives for investors\u2019 and public consumption.\u00a0 Websites, annual financial reports, and Form 10-K report are all critical resources to understand an organization, key offerings, competitive advantage, and market position.<\/p>\r\n
Research into the public documents of listed companies brings to light key data about these companies, their Strategies, and their Strategic Priorities<\/a>.\u00a0 MIT Sloan Management Review carried out a research in 2014 on Strategy Implementation<\/a>.\u00a0 The research involved 494 organizations that had already a place in the S&P 500 Index.\u00a0 The objective was to analyze how these enterprises outlined their Strategic Priorities in their annual and other reports.<\/p>\r\n The public documents that were evaluated to identify Strategic Priorities for the study included:<\/p>\r\n Some organizations did not disclose their strategic priorities in any of the data sources identified above.\u00a0 Those firms did not qualify for the research and were left out.<\/p>\r\n To understand an organization\u2019s prioritized actions to implement Strategy, MIT Sloan study employed 5 critical filters to assess the viability of strategic objectives.<\/p>\r\n All the documents that were reviewed as part of research had to pass the following 5 filters to be designated as viable \u201cStrategic Priorities.\u201d<\/p>\r\n The study identified a total of 1,508 Strategic Priorities through the data gathered from annual and 10-K reports of 311 organizations.<\/p>\r\n Strategic Priorities were then classified into the following 4 categories:<\/p>\r\n Interested in learning more about the categories of Strategic Priorities and how to communicate them across the organization? 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