Strategy and Corporate Development Functional Benchmarking

Key takeaways

• 62% of respondent organizations have corporate development and strategy together as one function. Organizations with separate functions still operate very closely.
• 88% of respondents do not have a separate integration management office.
• Only 4% of corporate development teams are decentralized.
• In addition to acquiring and divesting businesses, most corporate development teams are also responsible for joint ventures (90%) and investments (65%).
• Pipeline health, strategic rationale, valuation and execution are top performance measures.
• 72% of respondents noted that the Corporate Strategy is responsible for product line identification but competitive analysis and market analysis is generally led by the business units.
• While all respondents have a 3-5 year strategic plan horizon, 78% revisit them annually.
• More than half of the respondents are concerned about achieving their strategic plan – largely due to overly optimistic forecasts.

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