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. At the same time, they are effectively containing financial reporting and compliance risks.

Risk Management 13

Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 13

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 14

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 14

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Corporate Responsibility relates to every stage in the evolution of a business, leadership development, mentoring and creative ways of doing business. It is about more than the contents of a financial report. Integrity is personal and professional. It bespeaks to every aspect of the way in which we do business.

Ethics 51

Ethics Mission Statement Strategic Planning Benchmarking 51

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Furthermore, the fixed publication frequency of performance monitoring reports may preclude leaders from receiving action-prompting information in a timely manner. Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice 22 – Use a Multidiscipline Team to Develop the Performance Measurement System. Enterprise Performance Measurement.

Metrics 51

Metrics Article System Newsletter 51

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. They are transforming each and every business model.

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Strategy Driven

MAY 14, 2014

Syncing data is critical if you want to make sure everyone has access to up-to-date information, which is especially important for companies that manage mobile workforces. If you’re interested in this type of solution, make sure the provider allows rapid data syncing on and off the cloud and operates in multiple environments.

Strategy 58

Strategy Directory System Competitive Advantage 58

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

Leadership Development 283

Leadership Development Development Planning Self-aware 283

Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Deep questions: What diving teaches us about risk Words Caroline Roberts. Additional reporting by David Waller. In a hazardous world, managers can learn from the world of scuba diving: train hard, because you’ll never get rid of risk Scroll for more Shortcut to start of content Gareth Lock, founder of The Human Diver.

Uncertainty 52

Uncertainty Risk Management Training Compliance 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Even if a business knows how normal weather affects its earnings, unexpected abnormal weather events present their own risks. Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, the risks vary considerably between industries.

Hedge 8

Hedge Apparel Risk Management Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These threats change the risk management calculus of firms hoping to succeed in a more turbulent world. Start-ups are particularly at risk today because of both their size and age. These firms were more than twice as likely to report that their access to credit had decreased since before Sandy. Data from the U.S.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

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. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Assessing and mitigating internal risks.

Banking 8

Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Ensuring that societal values are reflected in algorithms and AI technologies will require no less creativity, hard work, and innovation than developing the AI technologies themselves. That’s because — like algorithms — companies’ internal operations appear as “black boxes” to those on the outside.

Ethics 11

Ethics Report System Sample 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

With China hacking the US, the US hacking China, and LinkedIn and Facebook and credit card companies and Google and who knows who else all vomiting our data all over the web, I was intrigued when a new report on data loss ran across my desk from auditing firm KPMG. Organizations just need to realize that's a risk.

Company 22

Company Download Information Self-aware 22

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

But for businesses, knowing when to expend time and effort preventing — and planning responses to — low probability, high consequence events is now, more than ever, one of the hardest and most important risk management problems to address. And its effects could have been mitigated by a more effective human response."

Risk Management 10

Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis Report 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Other than the well-documented differences in language and development, demographic differences are also significant. Policies relating to infrastructure development, land and labor, healthcare, and transport fall under the purview of the states—as do most licensing and permitting. Step 2: Measure operating environment.

Strategy 8

Strategy Operations Policies Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

boss, Ina Drew , the former head of their unit in of the bank's, the Chief Investment Office (CIO); and CEO Jamie Dimon, to whom the CIO reported who oversaw the CIO. boss, Ina Drew , the former head of their unit in of the bank's, the Chief Investment Office (CIO); and CEO Jamie Dimon, to whom the CIO reported who oversaw the CIO.

CIO 8

CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Just in case you’ve forgotten, a manager in a matrix organization has two or more upward reporting lines to bosses who each represent a different business dimension, such as product, region, customer, capability, or function. The executives in charge of the various groups sit together naturally in the top management team.

Organization 8

Organization P&L Report Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

In contrast, 70% of respondents think their boards have effective processes for staying current on the company; 69% for compliance; 66% for financial planning; and 55% for risk management — although we should note that managing risks is a crucial consideration when pursuing innovation.

Innovation 9

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Computers wouldn’t just speed up processes or automate certain tasks — they could upset nearly all business processes and allow executives to rethink operations from the ground up. Managers noted historical trends and revised processes, and engineers developed code that was then baked into computing systems.

Process 8

Process Company Market Segmentation Early Adopters 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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The last official report on the April 2010 explosion at the Deepwater Horizon rig was issued on September 16th. The report fails to address this fundamental question, just like all the other reports which have gone before. We may never know. See my earlier critique of the National Commission in this regard.).

Report 12

Report Policies Risk Management Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It may do to physical goods what cloud computing is now doing to digital services; what the PC, internet, and smart mobility have done to personal computing; and what outsourcing did to software development and business processing — take mass distribution and innovation to the next level while realigning the very geography of work and trade.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Commentators and researchers have focused on the crucial role of the CEO in leading effective corporate action to promote high performance, high integrity , and sound risk management. One key to this partnership is identifying risk priorities—whether economic (e.g.

CFO 8

CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

But for all the effort to structure legal and economic issues after a disaster occurs, it is far, far better to address critical operational issues — relating to safety culture, process and management — to prevent one. BP has admitted as much in its now long-forgotten report on the Gulf explosion.

CEO 8

CEO Outsourcing Supply Chain Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management. Climate change, water scarcity, and poor labor conditions in much of the world increase the risk.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Don''t get us wrong. Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.".

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

It is interwoven throughout all your most important business processes, whether it's account opening in financial services or reporting patient test results in healthcare. How do we protect intellectual property and other sensitive business information while also encouraging collaboration in product development processes?

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Risk Management Hedge Banking 12

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Business development. Thirty-three states reported extended mass layoff activity related in some way to the September 11 incidents. Losses reported by the airline industry for 2001 compare to an operating profit of $7 billion and a net profit of almost $3 billion in 2000. Running the business. Body of Knowledge.

Crisis 58

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 58

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

During my years at OSHA, where I served as the Assistant Secretary of Labor from 2009 through the beginning of 2017, I received several reports of safety system failures at DuPont facilities. The reality is that virtually all workplace injuries are preventable, and safety management and operational excellence are intimately linked.

Operations 15

Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. We’re starting to recognize that this relatively new situation has important ramifications for how businesses operate, and we’re making some progress. Insight Center.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Companies are both operators and investors. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. Create your own internal robo-advisory service : Companies could develop their own robotic or semi-robotic advice for key decision domains.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Consider that in just the first two months of 2018, 24 health care provider organizations reported data breaches affecting over 1,000 patients each, a 60% increase over the same time period last year. Consider risks such as system outages, device malfunction, stolen data, or even worse, manipulated data.

Health Care 9

Health Care Forrester Policies Tactics 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Seeing SMEs in such traditional light compels policymakers and their policy wonks, such as the European experts who drafted the report on " Supporting the internationalisation of SMEs " to focus on run-of-the-mill supply chain participation stuff, such as capacity building of micro-enterprises for the export market. Nano-multinationals.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Technology Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Yet managers continue to follow Taylor’s “hard” approach — creating new structures, processes, and systems — when they need to address a management challenge. Hence, the introduction of, say, a risk management team or a compliance unit or an innovation czar. Indeed, if anything, their continued use is making things worse.

Taylorism 10

Taylorism Taylor Mayo Cooper 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Multiple conversations about cyber risks are happening across a multitude of divisions in isolation. At the same time, members of the C-suite are measuring their potential impact using different metrics — financial, regulatory, technical, operational — leading to conflicting assessments.

Metrics 8

Metrics CIO Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

In the case of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the most impressive fact few reporters choose to explore in any depth is that the Boeing 777’s engine was capable of communicating long after the pilots went silent. If the news media were more tech-oriented, they would report this as an Internet of Things (IoT) story.

Airlines 8

Airlines Supply Chain Management Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

With China hacking the US, the US hacking China, and LinkedIn and Facebook and credit card companies and Google and who knows who else all vomiting our data all over the web, I was intrigued when a new report on data loss ran across my desk from auditing firm KPMG. Organizations just need to realize that's a risk.

Company 8

Company Download Information Self-aware 8