Originally written by Nick Ismail on Information Age
Growth tops the list of CEO top business priorities in 2018 and 2019, according to a recent survey of 460 CEOs and senior executives by Gartner, Inc. However, the survey found that as simple, implemental growth becomes harder to achieve, CEOs are concentrating on changing and upgrading the structure of their companies, including a deeper
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