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Board Performance Optimization: Beyond Compliance Towards Excellence

N2Growth Blog

The concept delves more deeply than mere regulatory compliance, stretching towards a proactive approach that involves risk anticipation, scenario planning, and sound decision-making processes. A classic example is Google, which has continuously exemplified high-functioning governance and performance optimization.

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Living in a Radical State of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

Few, if any, such models contain examples of what we are seeing in Japan and increasingly, around the world — not one, not even two, but three overlapping natural as well as human catastrophies occurring at the same time, overlapping to generate entirely new, unforseen outcomes.

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Get Ready for the New Era of Global Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey has identified more than 20 distinct submarkets in China, for example. Advanced economies, for example, depend more on high-skill talent to support what we call "global innovation for local markets" in industries such as pharmaceuticals and autos. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

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Make Your Strategy More Agile

Harvard Business Review

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. They allow a company to be more agile and to more effectively adapt to digital disruption. Can you run fast and go deep at the same time?

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4 Strategies for Women Navigating Office Politics

Harvard Business Review

An intrepid energy industry executive we know takes a novel, planning-based approach to managing politics, and we’ve taught the same method to many female executives over the years. To inject some predictability into the most crucial of organizational interactions, he uses scenario planning to map out strategies.