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After each decision round, it is important for the management teams at all companies to review the information provided in the $4-$page Comparative Competitive Efforts Report $($which consists of $1-$page for each geographic region$)$ because

$$ it is important for each company's management team to know the credit ratings of rival companies in each region to better understand what actions it needs to take to improve its own regional credit ratings.

knowing how well each company fared on each of the five performance measures that determine a company's overall performance score is critical to improving the overall performance of one's own company in the upcoming year's decision round.