Shows how top management ADP uses formal planning and control system to establish strategic boundaries for its business units. Top management has developed a detailed set of strategic criteria that ADP managers use to evaluate products and business units, and the acquisition and disposition of candidates. The focus is on whether ADP should deprive a profitable business that drifts outside the defined strategic boundaries. "Hide
by Robert L. Simons, Hilary A. Weston Source: Harvard Business School 15 pages. Publication Date: November 9, 1989. Prod. #: 190059-PDF-ENGThe KF40 Line of Automatic Coffeemakers Case Solution
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