Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Diversity is most important for business, the economy and quality of life. I have conducted many diversity audits of companies. I have seen corporate America embrace diversity in many practices, including the workforce and suppliers. Diversity is about so much more than human resources issues.

Diversity 93

Diversity Budgeting Open-book Risk Management 93

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Consequently, executive and manager attention and financial support may be disproportionately applied to the capital project(s), particularly in the event of overruns, at the detriment of problem resolution at the organization’s other operating assets. Corporate Risk Analysis, Management, and Mitigation.

Risk Management 59

Risk Management Project Organization Management 59

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Posted in Leadership Development Workplace Issues Is your company inadvertently pushing good people away? Have you pinpointed all the ways you are driving diversity out of your enterprise? Are some of your best performers leaving? If so, “adverse selection” may be at work in your organization.

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Diversity Leadership Development Development Organization 319

Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2018

That’s your spot of safety, where your internal risk manager allows you to play.” To take the first step, “you’ll need to get permission from your internal risk manager to take a small step, say to stretch just 10 percent, in showing vulnerability.”. Your diversity is embraced, as is everyone else’s.

Power 182

Power Kaplan Risk Management Active Listening 182

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Still, there is no problem here that companies like PuroClean cannot fix. Not only this, but they specify in mold removal, biohazard cleanup, and fire damage restoration services also, making them highly diverse in their respective field. It is always a good idea to have the number of such services on file in the event of an emergency.

Reputation 106

Reputation Crisis Technology Diversity 106

Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

Every company needs it but rarely conducts the process because they’re knee-deep in daily minutia. By seeing the daily changes resulting from the planning, companies are poised to rise above the current daily crises. By seeing the daily changes resulting from the planning, companies are poised to rise above the current daily crises.

Energy 80

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 80

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2013

For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice 6 – Diverse Indicators.

Metrics 52

Metrics Article System Newsletter 52

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. These factors form a formidable foundation for effective organizational governance when paired together.

Compliance 235

Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

It had appeared in a special online supplement of Businessweek on the subject of diversity, and it concerned the company's efforts to increase female and minority representation in management. Charles Begley, GlobeBank's managing director of diversity recruiting, was already reading it onscreen, dumbfounded. "We

Case Study 8

Case Study Diversity Taylorism Taylor 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Decisioning at the information level affords a higher degree of risk management, but are still not as safe as those decisions based upon actionable knowledge. Another aspect that needs to be factored into the decisioning process is the source of the input.

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Blog Analysis CEO Brand 409

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

If every leader made the effort to do what they said they would do, and only say what they commit to doing , every time, every company would be better run overnight. The higher one ascends in a company, the less likely it is he/she will get honest feedback.to his/her face.

Leadership Development 283

Leadership Development Development Planning Self-aware 283

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. In fact, in two practices in particular — "firing" and "leveraging diversity" — many companies fail dismally.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

Safeguarding your company in a complex world. Add up all the different federal, state, and international agencies that claim a piece of the regulatory pie, and you get a mishmash of overlapping requirements that can confuse and constrain companies — but leave hackers plenty of room to maneuver. Insight Center.

Hotels 9

Hotels Company Technology Software 9

Strategy Driven

MARCH 5, 2024

A single breach could lead to disastrous consequences, including financial losses, legal ramifications, and irreparable damage to the company’s reputation. Mitigating Diverse Threats In today’s interconnected world, cyber threats can come from anywhere and target anyone.

Compliance 111

Compliance Reputation Diversity Insurance 111

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

The question confronting Cisco and other companies is how to do that – how to speed the process of innovation, especially as technological change threatens to upend our current business models. Internal diversity. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Experts from outside industries.

Innovation 8

Innovation CAGR Diversity Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

That’s one of the questions we asked ourselves as we conducted a survey of directors of public and private companies headquartered in the United States. The disparities in the perceived importance of these issues could affect how directors prioritize and choose to address risks to the company.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Working with companies, I have realized that presenting organizational strategies as an extension of previously-held pop-culture values gets more understanding, comprehension, attention and support. Diversity of society is reflected in service. Innovating programs, strategies and methodologies. Recognizing and celebrating service.

Strategic Planning 51

Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Every day, senior managers are tasked with making very significant strategic decisions for their companies, which usually require support by teams of internal and external experts and a heavy dose of research. They do, however, open us up for biased risk/reward decision-making when applied to today's knowledge-based work.

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Kahneman Risk Management How To Commitment 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

” It wasn’t just one company, though; the whole economy was slowed by the extremes and volatility we faced. So let’s consider what a company can do in a world that’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous – that’s “VUCA” for short, a military term that’s been adopted by business. Diversity.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2012

Bees are masters at risk management. Take, for example, their approach toward the "too-big-to-fail" risk our financial sector famously took on. Risk is also tempered by diversity in a beehive. One of the attributes that determines the range of options that bees ultimately consider is genetic diversity.

Diversity 14

Diversity Long-term Human Capital Risk Management 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. We found that concerns about innovation fall behind other issues for most directors.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In virtually every country across the globe, a broad range of governmental and ethical issues directly and immediately shape what companies can and cannot do. CEO acumen on business-in-society issues is thus imperative in addressing fundamental corporate issues, from business strategy to compliance to ethical standards to risk management.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Reeling from the growing pains of a $475 million merger with Nortel, the business communications company faced lingering customer disillusionment and falling profits. Most big companies are happy to bump their score up by just a few points in that amount of time. Avaya embraced innovation as a risk management exercise.

Agility 8

Agility Innovation Metrics Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Further, some of the world’s biggest companies are family-owned—News Corp, Samsung, Tata Group, and Walmart to name but a few—and more than a third of Fortune 500 companies are family-owned. Strategic Challenges and Talent Management. Director Profiles.

FOB 8

FOB Diversity Talent Management How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

companies, the guidelines contain helpful (although not entirely novel or innovative) recommendations such as compensating outside directors with stock, giving non-executive directors unfettered access to management, and discouraging the practice of earnings guidance. Intended to strengthen corporate governance at U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Groupthink Sharpe Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2019

Some of the biggest threats to your company are going to develop internally. There are going to be issues where security is compromised owing to improper access protocol management pertaining to user names and passwords. Some divisions of your company need more or less service than others. II: Internal Employee Error.

Technology 10

Technology Contingency Plans Gordon Software 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Collaborated with University Facilities, Safety & Risk, Risk Manager; ServPro; and Insurance Adjuster to plan and execute clean-up and equipment replacement. Meghna has been COO of a small market research company since she earned her MBA several years ago. Wouldn’t you want her running your department?

COO 13

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). Top management must endorse corporate imaging and other forms of practice development, if your company is to grow and prosper. by Hank Moore.

Positioning 50

Positioning Company Strategic Planning Guidelines 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It’s no secret that organizations have been increasingly turning to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve decision making across business processes—from research and design to supply chain and risk management. The Risks and Rewards of AI. Insight Center. Sponsored by SAS.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Engineering Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As one of the most serious industrial accidents in history, the Gulf explosion should be a great case study for corporate leaders across the globe who are trying to manage risk in hazardous activities involving complex technology. None examine in any detail how the local organization on the rig fit into complex global organizations.

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Report Policies Risk Management Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

(link PDF) found that, beyond outdoor and survival skills, program graduates gained critical leadership skills including: effective handling of difficult circumstances, the ability to work as a member of a team, strategic planning, and how to communicate positively with diverse types of people.

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Wilde Leadership Teamwork Leadership Styles 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Poor controls over risk and valuations. Deceptive communication within the company and to the board. CEO Jamie Dimon consistently espouses the virtues of size and diversity. Boards Ethics Risk management' Flawed mortgage origination, loan modification and debt collection practices. Manipulation of energy markets.

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

To counter those cohesion and performance risks, managing such a globally-dispersed team requires deliberate planning that helps bridge those boundaries. Typically people talk about the importance of stressing commonalities and similarities in the context of diversity of any sort. Stressing differences.

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Globalization Team Stress Types of Knowledge 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Not only are individual companies and industries battling for talent, but countries are, too. We also asked the directors to assess their companies’ performance on talent management by evaluating the following nine practices: attracting top talent. leveraging diversity in company’s workforce. hiring top talent.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Analysis Globalization Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

In the business community, just as in a natural ecosystem, an individual organism (in this case a company) is vulnerable to changes in the availability of these systemic inputs. The risks are greater than we realize because the availability of any of these key resources deeply affects the availability of the others.

Energy 12

Energy Supply Chain Constraint Long-term 12

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). Every company needs it but rarely conducts the process because they’re knee-deep in daily minutia. by Hank Moore.

Energy 59

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 59