I work for a company that is in a shift to being smarter.  I have only been here 6 months but we have really started the process of thinking long term and we are building the resources to be smarter and make more informed decisions.

I used to work for a Large Auto Retailer and have to say they were actually going in the opposite direction from an IT perspective.  They were smarter and they have put themselves on a slope of getting dumber from my vantage point.  The decisions are very short sighted and they are losing their best resource (people) because they don't value you them as they should.  I believe some of it has to do with getting complacent which is never good. 

My sister once told me about the theory that the true enemy of "Great" isn't "Bad"; it is "Good Enough" because people accept "Good Enough" versus fighting for change when things are "Bad".  I think this can be applied in many areas but I feel like my old employer accepts Good Enough where my new employer was in the Bad Category and we are trying to move the needle in a different direction.