Companies need strategies that will help them simultaneously achieve success on four dimensions:

• Deliver next quarter's performance
• Innovate with new ways to do business — a step-function change in operations
• Accelerate strategic innovation — approaching new markets and new customers in radically different ways, potentially redefining the basis for competition in the industry
• Attract and retain employees who can build customers' confidence in this radically changed company

Balancing these objectives requires a commitment to the long term, while ensuring the continued achievement of short-term business objectives that live up to investors' escalating expectations. The sustained achievement of growth in shareholder value requires the tireless pursuit of innovation in both operations and strategy.

Booz Allen's approach to corporate strategy, which we call "strategy-based transformation," enables firms to achieve success in all of these four dimensions. It is a tested approach that integrates strategic insight with world-class skills in achieving lasting change in the way companies do business. The combination of the firm's experience in implementing transformation and in making innovation a way of life is helping our clients around the globe compete and thrive.

Booz Allen also leverages its global joint venture with Panthea to support corporate leaders in building top team alignment around strategic direction, people, and organization.  In addressing the Leadership Agenda, Panthea draws upon experienced specialists from crucial disciplines — strategy, executive search, psychology, leadership, and organizational development.  Visit www.panthealeadership.com to learn more about Panthea.