The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 17, 2019

It’s perhaps fair to say that governments are not usually the quickest at adopting new technologies, but this reticence does not appear to be dampening enthusiasm for technologies such as AI. AI is unlike any recent waves of technology change, it is truly transformational.

Efficiency 52

Efficiency Technology Risk Management Project 52

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

Business Model 344

Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. Show me someone who hasn’t made a bad decision and I’ll show you someone who is either not being honest, or someone who avoids decisioning at all costs, which by the way, constitutes a bad decision. They make bad decisions.

Blog 416

Blog Analysis CEO Brand 416

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Value-added leadership is a healthy way of life that puts collaborations first. When all succeed, then profitability is much higher and more sustained than under the Hard Nose management style. Value-added leadership requires a senior team commitment. You provide leadership for progress, rather than following along.

Leadership 50

Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. Most have done a great job of containing their financial reporting and compliance risks. Managers could keep the organization within acceptable tolerance ranges, driving performance to plan.

Risk Management 13

Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 13

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2012

If current employees are hesitant to talk, HR should also be conducting exit interviews , particularly in high-risk occupations like healthcare, to identify any areas that may put the company, its customers and consumers at risk. So what can be done to avoid situations like this? And 37 people would still be alive.

Mentor 232

Mentor Trends Committee Compliance 232

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

I also believe that if HR is solely charged with the recruiting efforts for senior management and executive level positions you’ll end-up with a very weak management and leadership team. Rather in most instances, I believe HR should be a compliance, training and risk management function.

Insurance 353

Insurance Bottom-up CEO Compliance 353

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The keystone of effective governance lies within the trapeze act of balancing stakeholder interests, harmonizing corporate objectives, maintaining legal and ethical standards, and ensuring a robust risk management system. The strength of governance can be significantly amplified with the employment of a dedicated leadership team.

Compliance 235

Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Google, for example, uses human capital analytics to encourage a coaching style among managers – because the analysis reveals this to be the most effective leadership style. Last month the supermarket giant Tesco announced a partnership with a technology firm Amscreen aimed at improving the targeting of its advertisements.

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2012

Compliance Management in Environment, Health & Safety. Aberdeen research report on how best in class companies manage Environmental, Health & Safety processes and technology while outperforming their peers. Complimentary Resource – How the ABC’s of Leadership Behavior Impact Safety Management Systems.

Compliance 50

Compliance Environment Resources Management 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. Those who say the cost is dropping often point to the dramatically falling costs of computing power. In fact, the costs of developing seminal software algorithms continue to rise, too.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Every large financial services company has instituted risk management, but that hasn't prevented risky behavior in the form of office politics and personality conflict — as the JP Morgan trading debacle has demonstrated. Risk management isn't exclusive to banking. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

Merchandising 10

Merchandising Risk Management Supply Chain Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

But with the rapid implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), CNOs are now expected to master new trends in health care information technologies to engage hospital leaders in strategic discussions about major technology investments. Is it surprising that management thinks there is a skills gap in management accounting ?

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Health Care Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

billion people, the Chinese consumer market is a tempting target for Western technology companies. The recent news that Google is considering a re-entry into China further highlights a troubling balancing act faced by technology companies looking to do business there. With over 1.3 Intellectual property theft.

Ethics 8

Ethics Technology Short-term Compliance 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

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. Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis.

Blog 413

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

They are far less adept at reckoning honestly with the risks of staying the course. In a very real sense, the first job of leadership is to identify and overcome the costs of complacency. The costs of complacency have never been greater. Change management Leadership Risk management'

White Paper 8

White Paper Advertising Risk Management Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

They frequently find the technologies are less of a hassle than the people. Renaissance Technologies and other, even more secretive investment funds are the management models here. These organizations are fully committed to letting algorithmic autonomy take the enterprise to new frontiers of innovation, profitability, and risk.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 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.

Report 12

Report Policies Risk Management Analysis 12

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If as a leader you don’t take the time to get to know your team members on a very personal basis you simply won’t build the trust necessary to successfully weather the seasons of leadership. Do you have the necessary resources (financial, technology, talent, infrastructure, etc.) to hit your objectives?

Team Building 284

Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom. They should insist that every director is deeply informed and keenly contributing to the company’s strategy and risk management.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Moreover, JP Morgan’s legal expenses since 2008 have totaled more than $18 billion dollars (which does not include the enormous internal resources expended on these matters or the cost of settlements). These business leaders must, however, be aided by highly competent legal, financial, risk, compliance, audit and technology staff.

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Have to make cuts everywhere else to pay for rising production costs. We’ve got the latest technology. Our company has got the most up to date technology. Companies spend disproportionate amounts of money on technology and neglect their people, processes and policies. Just took a vacation.

Budgeting 75

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 75

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

CEOs committed to staying on top of this ever-evolving threat must break down the silos that exist in the organization in order to assess the full dimensions of the risks across the enterprise and address these exposures holistically. Insight Center. The Human Element of Cybersecurity. Sponsored by Varonis.

Metrics 8

Metrics CIO Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

.” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. billion in 1997 to U.S. billion a decade later.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

Each of the 18 principal investigators (in charge of the various instrument payloads the spacecraft was carrying to capture and transmit information and images from the mission) were authorized to trade key resources — cost, mass, power, and data allotments — across the entire project.

Project 15

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

Each of the 18 principal investigators (in charge of the various instrument payloads the spacecraft was carrying to capture and transmit information and images from the mission) were authorized to trade key resources — cost, mass, power, and data allotments — across the entire project.

Project 13

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

As the scale and complexity of the cyber threat landscape is revealed, so too is the general lack of cybersecurity readiness in organizations, even those that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on state-of-the-art technology. Spending millions on security technology can certainly make an executive feel safe.

Training 9

Training Supply Chain Agility Risk Management 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Leaders equate risk with potential failure, so organizations have morphed into hierarchical, fixed systems to constrain variability within an acceptable range that has become progressively narrower. This loss aversion prevents taking appropriate risks. There is no safe innovation, only varying risk and reward.

Dunning 8

Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

His “rogue software engineers” echo executive whines a few years back about “rogue traders” at UBS and JPMorgan that cost those companies billions. ” Respectfully, one can’t be a hard-core engineer in aviation or automobiles without managing software matters. Always look to the leadership.

Engineering 8

Engineering Management Software Review 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not rising costs. Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. What would this leadership look like over time? And what did they say was their biggest concern?

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

But we also identified notable differences: namely a greater percentage of FOB than non-FOB directors viewed innovation as their top challenge, and FOB directors were also more concerned than their non-FOB counterparts about the rising cost of materials and commodities, levels of debt and supply chain risk.

FOB 8

FOB Diversity Talent Management How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

So what makes artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) champions confident that their technologies will be immune to comparably counterproductive outcomes? For too many managers, the technology’s costs often rival its benefits. For too many managers, the technology’s costs often rival its benefits.

Software 8

Software Learning-by-Doing Technology Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

We found that directors of all political stripes care a lot about the economy and cybersecurity, and that Republican and Democrat directors are aligned in their concerns about political instability and healthcare costs, even though they may have conflicting views on how these costs should be contained.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8