Wiktionary
n. (context business English) A document that summarizes all the reports of a company in a readable fashion.
Wikipedia
An executive summary, or management summary, is a short document or section of a document, produced for business purposes, that summarizes a longer report or proposal or a group of related reports in such a way that readers can rapidly become acquainted with a large body of material without having to read it all. It usually contains a brief statement of the problem or proposal covered in the major document(s), background information, concise analysis and main conclusions. It is intended as an aid to decision-making by managers and has been described as the most important part of a business plan.
An executive summary differs from an abstract in that an abstract will usually be shorter and is intended to provide a neutral overview or orientation rather than being a condensed version of the full document. Abstracts are extensively used in academic research where the concept of the executive summary would be meaningless. "An abstract is a brief summarizing statement... read by parties who are trying to decide whether or not to read the main document", while "an executive summary, unlike an abstract, is a document in miniature that may be read in place of the longer document".
Usage examples of "executive summary".
Golovko shook his head and opened his last folder of the day, scanning first of all the executive summary&mdash.
Golovko shook his head and opened his last folder of the day, scanning first of all the executive summary--- and his mind skidded to an almost instant halt, his hand reaching for a phone and dialing a number.
The conclusion of the executive summary posited the possibility that the entire field could rival the one in Saudi Arabia, although it was far harder to transport oil from it-except for the fact, the report went on, that the Trans-Alaska pipeline had already been built, and the new fields would only need a few hundred miles of extension on the existing pipeline, which, the summary concluded arrogantly, had produced a negligible environmental impact.
Golovko shook his head and opened his last folder of the day, scanning first of all the executive summary -- and his mind skidded to an almost instant halt, his hand reaching for a phone and dialing a number.
Twenty minutes later, he read over the executive summary of Ryan's second CIA report, the one which confidently predicted that the terrorists would probably never operate in America—.
Twenty minutes later, he read over the executive summary of Ryan's second CIA report, the one which confidently predicted that the terrorists would probably never operate in America - delivered days before the attack on his family.
Reardon handed her three other sheets, the rest of the executive summary.
So a long NIE of 50 or 100 pages has a kind of executive summary at the front called “.
This morning, the President dressed and went down to the library, where he reads the early papers as well as an executive summary that's prepared for him before he rises.
If he's the typical political appointee, he'll only want to see the executive summary, and that's just about all he's going to get, certainly not any of the appendices, not until it's spread across the entire diplomatic community here, and to die New Avalonian Ministry of Commerce, which has to get the first copy.