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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. As an essential prerequisite, compliance demonstrates a commitment to adherence and propriety.

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning. Scientific management and scenario planning, while forward-thinking, rely on information that’s in the rear view mirror. It’s an entirely different animal.

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning. Scientific management and scenario planning, while forward-thinking, rely on information that’s in the rear view mirror. It’s an entirely different animal.

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Reimagining the Boardroom for an Age of Virtual Reality and AI

Harvard Business Review

It would be an antidote to the insularity that so many boards are criticized for, and a useful complement to the simulations and war-game tools that help with scenario planning and anticipating competitors’ moves. The board of Communities in Schools , a U.S.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 4 of 4

Strategy Driven

Next comes Crisis Planning. What-if scenario planning is similar to the processes utilized in overall company strategic planning and visioning. The crisis plan must be part of the bigger process, not an adjunct or afterthought. Protection of the overall organization, compliance standards in the organization.

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How Multinationals Should Be Planning for Brexit

Harvard Business Review

Understand possible scenarios. After the Brexit team understands the broader impact of Brexit on the business, it needs to start scenario planning around potential developments of Brexit negotiations and the UK economy. The firm reconsidered the standard level of inventories, shelf life, and conservation process of its products.