Six Disciplines

MARCH 21, 2011

It's also used to articulate the challenges an organization has, enabling contingency plans. Marketing (company image, reputation, positioning, market share, growth). An analysis of the organization's strengths and weaknesses is typically an internal examination process.

SWOT 118

SWOT Debt to Equity Ratio Analysis Supply Chain 118

Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

This is to be expected; the decisions of c-suite leaders at major companies reach far into the organization’s future and can broadly impact the world at large. This includes assessing the potential impact of external factors, such as changes in the regulatory environment, and developing contingency plans to mitigate these risks.

Training 52

Training Execution Leadership Emotional Intelligence 52

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When a company is content with being merely mediocre it may survive but it will never do extremely well. The company must have an emphasis on high standards, a desire to create and give value to customers, accountability to the employers and to your customers, and the drive to learn. Plan for the future. Focus on excellence.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

As currencies and stock markets have tumbled in emerging markets, the business media has been dominated by cries of an “Emerging-Markets Crisis.” The media uses “emerging-markets crisis” as shorthand, but recent market turmoil was actually about relatively few countries.

Crisis 8

Crisis Marketing Contingency Plans Execution 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2019

Presently, the global tech market is estimated around $5 trillion. But by 2021, it’s estimated that the black-hat “cybercrime” market will be worth $6 trillion. Some of the biggest threats to your company are going to develop internally. Some divisions of your company need more or less service than others. I: Cybercrime.

Technology 10

Technology Contingency Plans Gordon Software 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

It’s 2015, and by now even latecomers among multinational corporations have decided to include African countries in their emerging market portfolios. However, many companies are not making the most of the Sub-Saharan Africa opportunity because of misconceptions about what it takes to succeed in the region.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term GDP Contingency Plans 8

HR Digest

MAY 12, 2024

Image: Freepik Common Hiring Mistakes and How to Avoid Them Recruitment error prevention is not something we think about often but there is always room for improvement in company-wide hiring procedures. The common hiring mistakes that companies make can stack up over time and sour the company’s reputation as a desirable place to work.

Reputation 52

Reputation Diversity Review Process 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

Industries and individual companies vary widely in terms of the impact on the uncertainties outlined above, due to their differential dependence on UK and EU production, demand and trade, global trade, regulation, and integration into EU structures (e.g., Continually update the industry and company assessment as events unfold.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Short-term Supply Chain Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 5, 2020

They are marketers, IT specialists, inventors, accountants, security experts, website designers, human resources, and much more. For many businesses, that is a plan for what you would do to get your business back up and running after a disaster strikes. Small business owners wear many hats. Before a disaster strikes.

Insurance 67

Insurance Contingency Plans Document Planning 67

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We have reviewed hundreds of corporate announcements and websites, interviewed numerous leadership experts, and conducted an analysis of CEO changes and successions over the past five years at S&P 500 and Global 100 companies. Attuned to the times, he or she has a stronger chance to uncover and release a company’s latent potential.

CEO 10

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Our supply and distribution lines were impeded; we lost market territory to war and annexation; we had to manage the impact of military mobilization of our workers, and we needed to relocate or redeploy almost a hundred employees and their families. Many foreign companies decided to write off Ukraine.

Crisis 8

Crisis Management Contingency Plans Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

When Thai flooding created significant shortages in the hard disc drive market, manufacturers lost millions of dollars. Risk in supply chain is not a potential cost — it is an actual cost, very real and borne by every product and service company, whether they understand it or not. This assumption may be fundamentally flawed.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

based companies, I’ve spoken with hundreds of high-performing working parents, and, on the hunt for real, feasible solutions, asked the same questions again and again: What advice has been the most valuable to you over the long term as a working parent? So have needed backups ready, and, more important, rehearse them.

Stress 13

Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 13

Strategy Driven

MAY 29, 2020

While you can’t completely insulate yourself from every single eventuality, there are steps you can take to ensure that you have the right insight and contingency plans in place should the worst happen. Theft of business property is sadly a serious issue that does go on in companies of all sizes. Dealing With Natural Disaster.

Insurance 65

Insurance Contingency Plans Norton Crisis 65

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

In our experience at Bain & Company, however, this strategy-to-performance gap is rarely the result of shortcomings in implementation; it is because the plans are flawed from the start. Leadership then specifies a plan that it believes will position the company to win in this predicted future.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2016

So, how can we avoid change fatigue and organizational burnout while still moving our companies forward? As Joan Lewis, former P&G Global Officer and SVP of Consumer and Market Knowledge says, “Hundreds or thousands of projects are good ideas but if we don’t prune the list, they will strangle each other like weeds in a garden.”.

After Action Review 50

After Action Review Rogers Contingency Plans Leadership 50

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

Bonus - Always have a Plan B : Another component of communications strategy that is rarely discussed is how to prevent a message from going bad, and what to do when does. It’s called being prepared and developing a contingency plan. If your expertise, empathy, clarity, etc.

Tips 417

Tips Blog Learning-by-Doing Open-book 417

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

“Then ask yourself some hard questions, such as, ‘Once I get beyond the temporary pain of this, will I still be proud of what this company stands for? If you support the new direction your company is taking, it’s worth letting your boss know , says Coyne. Is my new role something I am equally happy and satisfied with?’”

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Stress Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Elite media companies confirm their firewalls have been breached by successful Chinese cyberattacks. to Amazon Web Services and/or other cloud providers, you need to know their security protocols and contingency plans have intensified to mission-critical. American banks reportedly come under hostile cyberattack from Iran.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contingency Plans Banking Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

Any company with substantial exposure to Brexit that hasn’t yet devised contingency plans to deal with a range of outcomes, including very bad ones, is about as far behind the curve as Britain’s current government seems to be right now. Sociopolitical forces are taking new prominence in market strategy.

Contingency Plans 8

Contingency Plans Planning Company Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

strong opposition to the Iran nuclear deal; a ban on travelers from several Muslim-majority countries), many companies are still looking to invest in the region. Many companies are assessing their exposure to specific policy decisions (e.g., Since Trump was elected, Dunkin Donuts has opened its first outlet in South Africa; U.S.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Contingency Plans Policies Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Multinational companies operating in Mexico are facing a great deal of uncertainty. The possibility of a contentious renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has led to delayed or canceled investments in what has been one of Latin America’s most economically stable markets. Renegotiating NAFTA.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2017

While there might be plenty of directions you want to take your company in, you’ll also be subject to the whims and plans of your fellow humans, who all too often (it can feel like) have plans that are out of sync with your own. You’re probably more wrapped up in the well-being of other companies than you think.

Contingency Plans 50

Contingency Plans Software Trends Innovation 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Top leaders tend to focus more on status updates than on contingency planning. This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. miragec/Getty Images.

Market Risk 8

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8