Anna Herbst Jul 1, 2010:

Long-term focussed or not? The question was if "long-term" can be used with the adjective "focussed", if something can be "long-term focussed". My answer to this is a definite yes, and I have illustrated with sentences from reputable sources - the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and an Australian government site. An even better example that clearly shows the meaning of the term is perhaps: "The best global organisations ensure that workforce planning is long term focussed rather than only responding to immediate pressures." http://www.dpmc.gov.au/consultation/aga_reform/pdfs/0142 Ian...
The expression is widely used in business/finance.
An explanation in grammatical terms would be that if focussed is an adjective (which the question demands) long-term (without the hyphen in Am. English) functions as an adverb, as it determines the adjective focussed (or focused if you wish). Normally the adverb would take on an -ly ending, but not in this case.
Sheila's assumption that the asker's clarification "to be long-term focussed" is to be interpreted as being a full sentence is flawed. This is a very common way of putting a term into its grammatical context when discussing it linguistically.

Sheila Wilson Jul 1, 2010:

@ Anna Sorry, I tried to bit too concise. The term doesn't give a noun, so the implication is that this is the complete sentence: "Sth is long-term focused." IMO, that doesn't work. In your exampless, there's a noun for this term to depend on and that makes a big difference.

Anna Herbst Jul 1, 2010:

Spelling Focused or focussed? It is a matter of choice and also depends on where you come from.
"The spelling focused is much more common generally; however, the spelling focussed is sometimes used in the UK and Canada, and is especially common in Australia and New Zealand." http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/focussed