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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. Moreover, influential leaders enhance performance by fostering an environment with innovation, learning, and growth.

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Mindfulness as a Management Technique Goes Back to at Least the 1970s

Harvard Business Review

Through his unique lens, he came to create what we know as scenario planning — a widely used strategic planning practice that now spans all sectors. An HBR contributor, he wrote two seminal articles about Shell and scenario planning in 1985. Planning well, in his estimation, required “training the mind.”

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

Using machine-learning tools, for example, data that currently exists in different enterprise systems and diverse external sources (production, supply chain, market, customer trend, financial and economic data) can be ingested and mashed together to reveal meaningful patterns and highlight gaps in markets. It’s an entirely different animal.

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

Using machine-learning tools, for example, data that currently exists in different enterprise systems and diverse external sources (production, supply chain, market, customer trend, financial and economic data) can be ingested and mashed together to reveal meaningful patterns and highlight gaps in markets.

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Get Ready for the New Era of Global Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

On the innovation front, the opportunities are more diverse, but equally powerful. These opportunities arise in a far more uncertain environment than existed before the Great Recession. In this environment, manufacturing companies are rethinking their location strategies and not simply following the path of lowest wages.

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The Big Picture of Business: Putting Budgeting Into Perspective, The Bigger Picture of Strategic Planning

Strategy Driven

Does the strategic plan provide necessary guidance to the activities you will measure? How diverse is the planning committee? Have you done scenario planning of measures beyond your immediate control, i.e. external factors which profoundly impact your livelihood? Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc.