Executive Summary

• Strategy: Home Depot’s core strategy is evolving with the needs of its customers and business to focus on the customer experience and an improved product offering.
• Growth: Home Depot aims to grow its sales to $101 billion and its operating margin to 14.5% by 2018; growth efforts will focus on the US, Canadian, and Mexican markets.
• Productivity: Efforts to achieve productivity gains will focus on cross-functional work and improved “end-to-end” supply-chain integration.