Strategically intelligent firms are far more likely to have a senior level sponsor or champion: 46% of them strongly agree that their company has a C-level evangelist or champion for customer intelligence, versus 20% of marketing intelligence firms and 7% of functional intelligence firms.

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On the other hand, the price-to-book ratio is a useful measure of value, and most researchers agree that this ratio is strongly correlated with stock price performance.

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