Most strategies deliver about two-thirds of what they promise. Few companies routinely check.
In a survey of 197 companies, Michael Mankins and Richard Steele found firms realized only 63% of the financial value their strategic plans promised. Mankins’s sharper point: fewer than 15% of companies routinely compare how they performed with how they planned to perform.
A plan nobody grades gets rewritten next year, not corrected. The gap surfaces later — in missed targets, writedowns or an activist’s letter — long after the capital is committed.
Strategist is built to make that check routine: an independent strategy for any public company, with management’s benchmarked against it and every source shown.
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