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Boards Must Up Strategy Play

As company strategies are evolving fast in sync with a fast paced economy, new age boards need to evaluate these for effectiveness and governance issues.

Board members of Indian enterprises often ask us how they can focus more on corporate strategies instead of merely complying with newer recommendations of regulatory bodies. This is particularly significant as most of the boards do not have a process in place to oversee such strategies and stay aligned with these to help companies achieve their goals. Shifting a board's role to aiding and governing strategy from its current vague responsibilities demands some doing. But making strategy governance part of board competency is possible if the exercise is done step by step.

If there is a well defined strategy, the board should know its salient

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