Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Processes, trends, fads, perceived stresses and “the system” force adults to make compromises in order to proceed. Diversity of society is reflected in service. How individuals and organizations start out and what they become are different concepts. Innovating programs, strategies and methodologies. Honoring our elders.

Strategic Planning 51

Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

This approach has greatly enhanced our ability to defend information systems against attack. Today''s cyber-issues involve systemic social, economic, organizational, and political components. Malicious elements are ubiquitous in complex systems. Such technical improvements will not be sufficient, however.

Game Theory 8

Game Theory Incentives Diversity System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

Here’s a review of the five core components of resilient systems, which I pulled together for my new book, The Big Pivot , based in part on two other important works: Nassim Taleb’s Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder and Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back , by Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy. Diversity.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In the enterprise risk management (ERM) arena, in particular, it is mandatory that incisive analysis of decision options means taking rigorous steps to challenge not only the scenarios we develop, but also their underlying assumptions. Seek diverse outside opinion to counter our overconfidence.

Kahneman 15

Kahneman Risk Management How To Commitment 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

CEO acumen on business-in-society issues is thus imperative in addressing fundamental corporate issues, from business strategy to compliance to ethical standards to risk management. This is the essence of corporate citizenship.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

Which is why managing those arguments, as Ina Drew appears to have done brilliantly during the financial crisis but wasn't around to do for the past couple of years, is so important. The words "risk management" usually evokes less subjective, more data-driven pursuits. You want diverse, even opposing viewpoints.

Management 10

Management Risk Management Competitive Intelligence Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

This was Sasha’s summary: Department Administrator – Efficiency Expert – Staff Manager - Crisis Handler. Create and improve systems to manage staff’s and students’ needs — schedules, records, facilities, personnel, and budgets. Equally adept at managing people and operations.

COO 13

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

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 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2019

Sometimes they’ll just steal information, sometimes they’ll deliberately try to malign your system. Some programs could be compatible with either OS (Operating System), most won’t. Ideally, your technology should be consolidated so as to be in agreement even in diverse locations. This can happen from the outside or inside.

Technology 10

Technology Contingency Plans Gordon Software 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates. banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Health Care (e.g.,

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

CEO Jamie Dimon consistently espouses the virtues of size and diversity. We are ensuring that our systems, practices, controls, technology and, above all, culture meet the highest standards…Eventually most of these new processes will be embedded permanently in how we conduct our business.” Boards Ethics Risk management'

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Because better risk management in the future turns on corporate behavior, not just more regulation, and because that risk management is going to be driven from the top of corporations, the answers to these questions of leadership responsibility and accountability for organizational action and culture are of critical importance.

Report 12

Report Policies Risk Management Analysis 12

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Everyone can improve their coaching, exactly what form "improve coaching" takes could vary for every individual: be more encouraging, be more challenging, focus on building an understanding of the organization as a system, spend more time coaching - less time reading and writing reports, etc.

Leadership Development 283

Leadership Development Development Planning Self-aware 283

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

Buffeted by a gust, they wouldn't just settle into a slightly different path but would spin out of control and break asunder if "fly-by-wire" computer guidance systems did not continually redirect them to avert disaster. And they lump all diverse individuals into one "representative agent." But it is pure assumption.

Crisis 19

Crisis Decentralization Marketing Engineering 19

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Similarly, commentators have been divided about whether the raise was deserved or not, citing both economic performance (2013 was about the same as 2012) and Dimon’s handling of diverse legal and regulatory issues for support. Despite this core failing on corporate culture, he is obviously an extremely talented CEO in many other respects.

Banking 8

Banking Fashion CEO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

Effective NASA project team members also have cultivated large networks of people willing to use their unique views and diversity of experience to solve difficult questions, scrutinize decisions, spread knowledge, and innovate.

Project 16

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

Effective NASA project team members also have cultivated large networks of people willing to use their unique views and diversity of experience to solve difficult questions, scrutinize decisions, spread knowledge, and innovate.

Project 14

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 14

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

As companies adjust comfort levels and acquire confidence in the arena of business development, there is a direct relationship to billings, client mix diversity, market share, competitive advantage, stock price and levels of business which enable other planned growth. Work and abilities of your employees are diverse and creative.

Positioning 50

Positioning Company Strategic Planning Guidelines 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

At Cisco, we are learning to answer these questions through three initiatives designed to broaden our knowledge base by bringing multiple perspectives together: embracing diversity within our walls; reaching out across industries; and building partnerships with former (and current) competitors. Internal diversity.

Innovation 8

Innovation CAGR Diversity Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. In fact, in two practices in particular — "firing" and "leveraging diversity" — many companies fail dismally. Not competitive threats.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Researchers find echoes of this story in other contexts all the time — circumstances where adding safety-enhancements to systems actually makes crisis situations more dangerous, not less so. The reasons are rooted partly in the pernicious nature of complexity, and partly in the way that human beings psychologically respond to risk.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Hedge System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

In the business community, just as in a natural ecosystem, an individual organism (in this case a company) is vulnerable to changes in the availability of these systemic inputs. The risks are greater than we realize because the availability of any of these key resources deeply affects the availability of the others.

Energy 12

Energy Supply Chain Constraint Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

Earlier this year an alarming story hit the news: Hackers had taken over the electronic key system at a luxury hotel in Austria, locking guests out of their rooms until the hotel paid a ransom. It was alarming, of course, for the guests and for anyone who ever stays at a hotel.

Hotels 10

Hotels Company Technology Software 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Our limited sample suggests that both groups agree that board leadership should serve as champions of board diversity, but they differ on the policies they advocate to increase board diversity. Meanwhile, Democrats place greater importance on technology expertise and risk management. Why does all this matter?

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8