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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Gut instincts can only take you so far in life, and anyone who operates outside of a sound decisioning framework will eventually fall prey to an act of oversight, misinformation, misunderstanding, manipulation, impulsivity or some other negative influencing factor.

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Contingency : Nothing is without risk, and when you think something is without risk, that is when you’re most likely to end-up in trouble. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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Questions and Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? How will we measure them, and what hurdles do we need to hit to be successful? Do you have the necessary resources (financial, technology, talent, infrastructure, etc.) to hit your objectives? Why should we make this investment?

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management. Climate change, water scarcity, and poor labor conditions in much of the world increase the risk.

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Moving to a Safety Culture in Mining

Harvard Business Review

I fundamentally rejected that assumption, so I began a tour of our operations. We toured mines on four continents, studying global best practices in safety, and we also visited industrial operations outside the mining sector. But even after we’d agreed on what was safe, each of the stakeholders would need the capacity to manage safety.