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As we close out 2024, we want to thank the incredible businesses and partners who made this year one to remember. Here’s to fresh opportunities, big goals, and continued success in 2025. Wishing you and your teams a bright and prosperous New Year!

2024 has been an incredible year, thanks to the businesses and partners who make it all worthwhile. We’re grateful to work alongside you and to be part of your journey. Wishing you a wonderful holiday season and a successful year ahead!

In strategy, timing isn’t just about when you plan—it’s about how often you check your course. 92% of highly influential strategy teams conduct quarterly performance reviews. This isn’t about micromanagement—it’s about strategic agility, using each review as an opportunity to adapt and improve. #PerformanceMetrics #Strategy #Leadership #DataDrivenStrategy Source: CB Insights Corporate Strategy Survey 2024

46% of top-performing strategy teams use project-specific KPIs, versus just 11% of less influential teams. These high-performers don't just track broad business metrics - they measure concrete outcomes like new product revenue and deal-specific ROI. And they check these metrics regularly. Stop measuring everything and start measuring what moves the needle. What specific outcomes is your strategy driving? #PerformanceMetrics #Strategy #Leadership #DataDrivenStrategy Source: CB Insights Corporate Strategy Survey 2024

What's the biggest hurdle in strategic planning? Stakeholder alignment tops the list as the most common pain point faced by strategy teams, even with a median of just 4 stakeholders involved. Making things worse? 40% of teams can't get the data they need to back up their strategy. It's tough to get buy-in when you can't prove your point. Have you run into alignment challenges in your planning process? #StrategicAlignment #Leadership #CorporateStrategy #ChangeManagement Source: CB Insights Corporate Strategy Survey 2024

While data challenges are a major pain point in strategic planning, only 16% of strategy teams have tactics in place to address them. The gap between need and capability is striking. Even with investments in analytics tools and data specialists, teams still struggle with both internal data quality and access to crucial external market insights. "It's a complex world that we operate in and a lot of times clean full data is not available. We need to extrapolate, we need to support secondary data with syndicated data, with primary market research, with other sources that are not publicly available and all that takes time and effort and money." — Director of Strategy at a top-tier hospital system How is your team bridging the data gap in strategic planning? #BusinessLeadership #PerformanceMetrics #ClearBooks Source: CB Insights Corporate Strategy Survey 2024

Happy Thanksgiving from ClearBooks! We're grateful for the opportunity to connect with our community and support businesses like yours. Wishing you and your loved ones a wonderful holiday. #Thanksgiving

Happy National Espresso Day! ☕️ At ClearBooks, we believe good partnerships and great coffee make everything better. That's why we love surprising our clients with a special brew from our partner Dillon Partin at EverLou Coffee Co. #NationalEspressoDay #Accounting #ClearBooks