N2Growth Blog

MAY 30, 2017

Strategic Planning: This program crafts a strategic plan and ongoing strategy execution process, which identifies the initiatives required to move the organization form its current state to the achievement of its long-term vision. The 7 programs include: 1.

Strategic Planning 230

Strategic Planning Long-term Organizational Behavior Technology 230

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

While CEO’s can’t be in charge of recruiting, it’s important to realize that CEOs still own responsibility for the outcome – the buck always stops at the desk of the chief executive. Rather in most instances, I believe HR should be a compliance, training and risk management function.

Insurance 353

Insurance Bottom-up CEO Compliance 353

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2012

And how can executives in other companies and organizations prevent such a costly tragedy? 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.

Mentor 232

Mentor Trends Committee Compliance 232

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. This is where executives are far less confident. What does maturity look like in practice?

Risk Management 14

Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 14

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Usually, management has not yet articulated their own individual values, let alone those of the organization. This process helps to define and develop value systems to create success. Develop a mission statement. The last draft of the statement will be an executive summary of collective ideas and works of the Visioning team.

Mission Statement 81

Mission Statement Benchmarking Tactics Strategic Planning 81

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

The fact of the matter is that senior executives who rise to the C-suite do so largely based upon their ability to consistently make sound decisions. Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk.

Blog 416

Blog Analysis CEO Brand 416

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity. These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics.

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2015

I sat in a meeting of highly educated business executives. Many people used to do the same thing with the word ‘technology,’ using it far from its reasonable definitions. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they’re victims of it.

Strategy 50

Strategy Strategic Planning Budgeting Risk Management 50

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

They can sound geeky, but they are developments that every manager needs to understand. It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. Ultimately, technology has to serve us, not the other way around.

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2021

Unfortunately, cyber attackers evolve as technology changes and make their attacks even more sophisticated. When the news of a data breach gets into the ears of the company’s executive and other people, it’s easy to attach the fault to some employee who clicked the wrong link. Avoid Blame Games. Train Them On Password Best Practices.

Training 84

Training How To Policies Budgeting 84

Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they’re victims of it.

Energy 78

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 78

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Previous to our technological advancements, the only way businesses could manage their multiple consumer platforms, numerous transactional tasks, and recover from data emergencies was to outsource to a variety of vendors. Technology’s impact on society and business is substantial as it has become a part of everyday life.

Strategy 50

Strategy Outsourcing Process Technology 50

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. Dominant among them is the increasingly pivotal role of technology.

Compliance 235

Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Planning, tactics, organizational development. You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. Business is run economically and efficiently, with excellent accounting procedures, payables-receivables practices and cash management. Executives possess good people skills. Culture and Mission.

Leadership 50

Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke, Technology and the Future. The ingredients may include such sophisticated business concepts as change management, crisis management and preparedness, streamlining operations, empowerment of people, marketplace development, organizational evolution and vision.

Benchmarking 50

Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

By disclosing a breach, CFOs of publicly traded companies might trigger investor panic and sell-off, whereas private company CFOs risk irreparable harm to consumer and employee confidence. Andrew Douthwaite has over 17 years of technology experience joining VirtualArmour in 2007 as a senior engineer. About the Author.

Chief Technology Officer 78

Chief Technology Officer Short-term How To Long-term 78

Strategy Driven

JUNE 26, 2014

Many thanks to my colleague Jerry Talley for initially developing this concept of a Macro Map. I suggest starting with a small group of executives/managers who know the work of the department or division. (If Relate Articles: Risk Management Best Practice 3 – Procedure Annotation and Commitment Tracking.

Process 58

Process Strategy BPM Metrics 58

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well. manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, according to a leading technology industry analyst. Most hearing aids in the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2018

Business evolution is an amalgamation of thoughts, technologies, approaches and commitment of the people, asking such insightful questions as: What would you like for you and your organization to become? How important is it to build an organization well, rather than constantly spend time in managing conflict?

Company 51

Company Self-aware Creativity Marketing 51

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Businesses are constantly experimenting with new ways to use artificial intelligence for better risk management and faster, more responsive fraud detection — and even to predict and prevent crimes. While today’s basic technology is not necessarily revolutionary, the algorithms it uses and the results they can produce are.

Banking 8

Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

While AI will be deployed to manage certain tasks, including higher-level decision making, the technology’s true power is in augmenting human capabilities — and that holds true in the supply chain. Recruitment, performance metrics, and career advancement all need to be viewed through a lens of technology-driven innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Technology System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Developed during World War II, CARVER (then one letter shorter and known as CARVE) was originally used by analysts to determine where bomber pilots could most effectively drop their munitions on enemy targets. (One One of the most overused expressions thrown around by wannabe “Wall Street Rambos” is business is war.

Tools 11

Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. Still, it’s telling that board members rate their boards better on risk management than on innovation. Jason Jaroslav Cook Creative/Getty Images.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

In February, President Obama issued an executive order aimed at protecting critical infrastructure, adding the administration''s voice to those of Congressional members and corporate leaders in the national conversation on cybersecurity. The first focuses on the concept of enhanced public/private information sharing and developing standards.

Cooper 8

Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

A property-and-casualty insurance company, for instance, knew that business customers who invested in risk management were longer tenured and more profitable than others. So executives identified a unit that was far behind plan, where the reps were unlikely to earn their bonus. They make a game out of it. It might help.”

Tools 10

Tools Workshop Information Technology Risk Management 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. When Bernstein hid a set of production lines from managers’ view, the performance of employees on those lines increased by 10% to 15%. This is also true of executives.

Organization 12

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

At the same time, front-runners across industries are partnering with technology companies to identify game-changing business solutions that can be achieved through AI. Building the New “Mega Segments”: Which Content Providers Will Play to Win? At its essence, AI is about embedding human intelligence into machines. Start small.

Insurance 8

Insurance Industry Content Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

Boards challenge their executives to get with the digital age — but many haven’t followed their own good advice. But there are plenty of other tools they could be using to do their jobs better — technologies that have proved useful in other contexts. Some headsets really immerse you in the experience.)

Scenario Planning 8

Scenario Planning Tools Technology Compliance 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Not only do great CEOs understand how to recruit a top executive team, but they also understand how to build cohesion among team members through collaboration while addressing specific situational and contextual needs. And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail.

Team Building 284

Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

As corporate leaders grapple with the question of how to prove something is (or isn’t) real, they will need to invest in new technology that helps them keep one step ahead of bad actors. But that technology is still in its early stages, and as it develops you can be sure that bad actors will be working on ways to defeat it.

Reputation 10

Reputation Company Video Crisis 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. The primary driver for new learning is increasingly complex and essential technologies.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Health Care Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Martin describes how executive teams carefully explore the risk of different courses of action, but neglect to make a similar assessment of the risk of staying the course. Armed only with the risks of changing, it’s natural for the team to shy away from decisive action. Leading teams Risk management Strategic planning'

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Due Diligence Proposal Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

And attempts to prevent cyber attacks in this way will not scale with the new technologies that businesses are adopting, such as mobile devices and cloud computing. The analogy applies readily to businesses; they must go beyond vulnerability management and develop threat-based cyber defenses.

Film 8

Film Tactics Uncertainty Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

She must also have the experience and capability to address business-in-society issues—legislation, regulation, investigation, enforcement and litigation — that now create risk and opportunity in all dimensions of corporate activity. Recent global developments underscore the importance of these societal issues.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

The secret isn't rocket science — it's a full-time commitment to the art and science of project management. PMI's Pulse of the Profession Survey shows that more than two-thirds of project-based organizations have created a dedicated Project Management Office to lead such efforts. Leveraging Executive Sponsors.

Project 16

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

He told me about the days, decades ago, when he first ran into a new breed of executive and thought, “What the heck is a CIO?” Consider three critical mega-trends: resource constraints and rising commodity prices; climate change and extreme weather; and radical, technology-driven transparency. Insight Center.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8