  In today’s volatile and uncertain climate, clients are looking for cost-efficiency and flexibility as well as strategies for long-term growth. One way to do this is to look beyond a company’s traditional markets. But where should they look?
Accenture’s third Multi-Polar World report, Strategies for Achieving High Performance in a Multi-Polar World [PDF, 1MB], helps businesses answer this question. PDF Help
The report presents a playbook of options drawn from the experience of high-performance businesses from around the globe, including emerging-market multinationals. It sets out emerging best practices and leading management ideas for companies from across the globe to draw on as they shape and update their business strategy in response to the current downturn as well as sources of long-term growth.
This report, produced by the Accenture Institute for High Performance, integrates our High Performance Business and Multi-Polar World research programs. It aims to spur the next stage of global competitive endeavor as organisations emerge from the current marketplace turmoil and seek to become resilient and agile leaders in a volatile and interdependent world. This report offers persuasive evidence that high performers from both the developed and emerging markets do globalisation differently. Across all five dimensions of the multi-polar world—new consumers, talent, innovation, resource sustainability and capital—their strategies are guided by three central principles: - Create geographic options
- Become authentically local
- Network their organisation
When choosing strategies to harness different economic geographies, it is useful to look at how high-performance businesses turn these principles into actions on the ground. This report isolates a number of specific imperatives that can help companies make focused choices in how they execute their global strategy. Below is a summary. 
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