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.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Decisioning at the information level affords a higher degree of risk management, but are still not as safe as those decisions based upon actionable knowledge. Another aspect that needs to be factored into the decisioning process is the source of the input.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 5, 2024

As technology continues to advance, so do the risks associated with cyber threats. Mitigating Diverse Threats In today’s interconnected world, cyber threats can come from anywhere and target anyone. In the digital age, businesses thrive on connectivity and data, and cybersecurity is the guardian of prosperity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. To better understand the competitive landscape, directors suggested engaging with management.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

Widespread use of antivirus, intrusion detection technologies, improved cryptography algorithms, and methods for blacklisting infected web sites are just a few examples of how technical advances have improved cyber defense. This approach has greatly enhanced our ability to defend information systems against attack.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

Diversity. A company is clearly more at risk if it has just one major product, service, technology, key supplier, or other core element. While companies don’t often share the details of their supply chain strategy publicly, you can bet these companies have built more diverse options for sourcing key inputs.

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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. These ethical questions arise in the whole range of corporate activity from technology and manufacturing to marketing and sales.

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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. We also looked at results by industry and region.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As one of the most serious industrial accidents in history, the Gulf explosion should be a great case study for corporate leaders across the globe who are trying to manage risk in hazardous activities involving complex technology. And, if they are not known, those lessons can't be learned.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

CEO Jamie Dimon consistently espouses the virtues of size and diversity. These business leaders must, however, be aided by highly competent legal, financial, risk, compliance, audit and technology staff. Boards Ethics Risk management' JP Morgan is the biggest of them all with $2.3 trillion in assets ,$1.1

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

To counter those cohesion and performance risks, managing such a globally-dispersed team requires deliberate planning that helps bridge those boundaries. Typically people talk about the importance of stressing commonalities and similarities in the context of diversity of any sort. Stressing differences.

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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. The most brilliant person without a respectful, collaborative attitude is a failure waiting to happen.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

One such skill is portfolio management , the application of systematic tools for reducing risks and maximizing the return on investments. You then manage the risk and return in the portfolio by adjusting the mix and amount of investments, since it is unlikely that all of them will rise or fall to the same degree simultaneously.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities. I know from experience that planning while going through the “alligators” is the most effective way to conduct the process.

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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. The most brilliant person without a respectful, collaborative attitude is a failure waiting to happen.

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Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

“The fact that technology has made it easier to interact with people across great distances and time zones actually makes face-to-face interaction even more valuable.” ” Here’s how to get the most from the conferences you attend. Change your mindset. ” Ron won a spot on a panel.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

All of this change will require new technologies that enable faster, more secure ways for machines to share and process data. The question confronting Cisco and other companies is how to do that – how to speed the process of innovation, especially as technological change threatens to upend our current business models.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Our research on boards of directors and corporate governance has shed new light on many board practices and reveals the need for improvement in several areas including skills and selection , succession planning , and diversity. We found, alas, that FOB boards trailed behind non-FOB boards on diversity. Director Profiles.

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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 rising costs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It’s no secret that organizations have been increasingly turning to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve decision making across business processes—from research and design to supply chain and risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

This technological and logistical challenge is made all the harder by the fact that by 2030, we'll be confronting a water supply shortage of approximately 40 percent due to a toxic combination of rising demand and climate-change-driven shifts in water supply.

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Energy Supply Chain Constraint Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

Some smart technologies can save lives, such as medical devices that control intravenous drug doses or remotely monitor vital signs. The Obama administration pushed regulatory proposals for cybersecurity infrastructure in its early years, but eventually pivoted to a more effective risk-management approach. Insight Center.

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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?

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