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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. Implementing new strategies driven by advanced technology contributes significantly to organizational efficiency and effectiveness.

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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

The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. Now we have an opportunity to crunch the insights of key talent, data assets, and technologies from multiple internal and external sources, as they arise. Information & technology Leadership Strategy'

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. Now we have an opportunity to crunch the insights of key talent, data assets, and technologies from multiple internal and external sources, as they arise. Strategy-making can now happen in real time.

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Get Ready for the New Era of Global Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Increasingly, customers demand more after-sale service; this is the norm now in business-to-business sales, but will spill over to consumer goods, too, thanks to some of the technology advances we'll talk about below. On the innovation front, the opportunities are more diverse, but equally powerful.

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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics. Ensuring readiness for Games-time (in Olympic-speak) now involves strategic pre-emption through stress-testing and scenario planning.