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Board Performance Optimization: Beyond Compliance Towards Excellence

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. The primary step involves an objective assessment to determine operational efficiency and effectiveness.

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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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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

At the start of the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, it was a catalog of minor operational and logistical problems that led journalists to start reporting on "the glitch Games." Risk mitigation is now integrated into decision-making and operations, and no longer treated as just an input into the calculation of insurance premiums.

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Mindfulness Can Improve Strategy, Too

Harvard Business Review

It’s about becoming aware of how the diverse internal and external stimuli we face can provoke automatic, immediate, unthinking responses in our thoughts, emotions, and actions. Steve Jobs, a regular meditator, made use of mindfulness practice to challenge operating assumptions at Apple and to enhance creative insight in planning.

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The Potential and Pitfalls of Doing Business in Cuba

Harvard Business Review

Under such a scenario, multinationals would see expanded opportunity across diverse sectors. The key to winning in Cuba will be to prepare with rigorous scenario planning in order to avoid being left on the sidelines once the market begins to bloom.

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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. We see advances in materials, processes, and information technology that will make possible entirely new kinds of products and can radically alter how manufacturers operate. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.