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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. By developing a qualitative and quantitative filtering mechanism for your decisioning process you can make better decisions in a shorter period of time. As much as you may wish it wasn’t so, as a CEO you’re really only as good as your last decision.

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

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. Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity.

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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? I often observe ego centered conflicts among senior executives, which turn into a competition for turf, budget, power, influence, control, and ultimately survival. How will we measure them, and what hurdles do we need to hit to be successful?

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Climate change, water scarcity, and poor labor conditions in much of the world increase the risk. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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C'mon, IT Leaders. Take a Chance!

Harvard Business Review

Reputation risk: C-suites fear their brand''s reputation, neglecting what''s best in creating value for the business or customers and letting the bureaucratic brand image which mistakes appearance for relationship and form for content prevent experimentation. inaction disguised as patience and impatience also contribute to opportunity risk.

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What Gamers Can Teach Us About Fraud

Harvard Business Review

Valve Corporation's game platform, Steam , developed an anti-cheat solution in 2006 after it detected 10,000 cheating attempts in a single week. Not only does the game developer lose revenue, it loses additional players who get frustrated when they don't advance in the game as quickly as their cheating counterparts.