N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Above all, risk management skills and sound business acumen are required to drive profitable growth and sustainable business expansion. A successful CCO must harness these skills to drive commercial strategies, innovate processes, and navigate increasingly complex business environments.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 15, 2024

CMAs often become instrumental in strategic planning, helping organizations achieve their goals by providing valuable financial insights. Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) Internal auditing plays a vital role within organizations, ensuring both compliance and the smooth functioning of operations.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 16, 2013

Operational Risk Management : How Best-in-Class Manufacturers Improve Operating Performance with Proactive Risk Reduction. This Analyst Insight highlights the steps taken by Best-in-Class companies to successfully mitigate risks in order to reduce the potential impact on their financial goals.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2012

Compliance Management in Environment, Health & Safety. Aberdeen research report on how best in class companies manage Environmental, Health & Safety processes and technology while outperforming their peers. Click here for more information on Compliance Management in Environment, Health & Safety.

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HR Digest

JULY 4, 2023

It’s a model that embraces different perspectives, from employees to customers, from middle managers to the CEO. In this model, culture is defined as the collective behavior, attitudes, and beliefs that shape the organization’s identity. Under the Spotlight: The Roles of the Board and Middle Managers A.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

“Agile organizations treat disruption and adversity as opportunities.” Today’s organizations face the unknown on a weekly basis. In this environment of constant change, I often hear that we should be agile. We demonstrate that agile organizations possess both strategic and tactical agility.

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CO2

JUNE 14, 2023

As leaders, we all strive for success, constantly seeking the right balance to propel our teams and organizations forward. As a leader or an executive coach, your role is to guide and support individuals while challenging them to reach their goals. However, finding that sweet spot between variables can be a challenging task.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Clearly, it’s time to reconsider how your organization goes about developing and executing strategy at all levels. Ownership: At whatever level strategy is applied, it typically has been owned by the most senior leaders in the organization. So if you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

We tend to think that the business world is always a zero-sum environment, “If Steve gets that promotion, and then I will not be able to achieve my goals.” This benefits the organization as well. Rather than manage, leaders are encouraged to lead because their teams are more proactive and pull them ahead.

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CO2

JUNE 14, 2023

As leaders, we all strive for success, constantly seeking the right balance to propel our teams and organizations forward. As a leader or an executive coach, your role is to guide and support individuals while challenging them to reach their goals. However, finding that sweet spot between variables can be a challenging task.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 21, 2011

Another well-respected organization, the Corporate Executive Board, released research last year that concluded 75 percent of the employees were not engaged and giving their best efforts and of the 25 percent who were engaged, 60 percent were not aligned with organizational goals. Education is another field he mentioned.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

It is a vantage point by which forward-thinking organizations ask: What will we look like in the future? Analyze the company’s environment, resources and capabilities. Clarify management values. Usually, management has not yet articulated their own individual values, let alone those of the organization.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

. “By fostering an organizational culture that puts safety-first, executives and managers create a workplace environment where errors are recognized and proactively corrected before they result in a material event.” Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. About the Authors.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

For far too long, managing risk has been seen as an esoteric business function — designed to control losses and adhere to compliance standards. Senior business leaders and their boards must therefore change the way they think about risk and how they respond to it. When Tough Performance Goals Lead to Cheating.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

It means making the most of the organization that we can. It is a mindset that must permeate organizations from top-down as well as bottom-up. Realistically attainable goals. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Diversity is about so much more than human resources issues.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 18, 2011

Risk Management —profit variability versus growth rate. A strategy execution coaching program is an organized approach to grow an organization's ability to deal with an ever-changing—and increasingly challenging—business environment. Control —things “feel” out of sync.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 18, 2010

Another well-respected organization, the Corporate Executive Board, released research last year that concluded 75 percent of the employees were not engaged and giving their best efforts and of the 25 percent who were engaged, 60 percent were not aligned with organizational goals. Education is another field he mentioned.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. The Big Picture of Business – Visioning Scope: Applying Vision Toward Your Organization’s Progress. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

No individual or organization can have success without experiencing and learning from failures. Most people and organizations fail due to never having control over certain ingredients, improper planning and the inability to change. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. All rights reserved.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Underpinning the philosophy of governance excellence is the knowledge that effective governance fosters trust, propelling an organization’s reputation and sustainable growth. This leadership should be committed to the organization’s vision, mission, and core values.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

With planning and organizing, you can meet and beat most deadlines without working in a pressure cooker. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. In mounting your next strategic Planning process for your company, go back and analyze what elements from the past can be rejuvenated as your future.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Organizations should coordinate management skills into its overall corporate strategy, in order to satisfy customer needs profitably, draw together the components for practical strategies and implement strategic requirements to impact the business. This is my review of how management styles have evolved. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Unfortunately, we were not taught the best methods of working with others in achieving desired goals. Every organization must educate outside publics about what they do and how they do it. Each organization or should determine and craft its own corporate culture, character and personality, seeking to differentiate itself from others.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2014

Organizations expend significant personnel and financial resources on well-performed self assessments and the implementation of follow-up performance improvement actions. Identifying high-value self assessments is an iterative process derived from the organization’s risk assurance map. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The sharp focus and direction on your objectives and goals can only be maintained with constant monitoring of your procedures and processes. Objective analysis of how the organization has operated to date. Legal compliance and precautions plan is annually updated, with measurable goals. Assets are adequately valued and managed.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Instead of contracting multiple external resources, organizations employ one automation tool to perform an unlimited number activities. EnableSoft ‘s Foxtrot application is one example of an RPA software that enables organizations to perform internal application integration, risk management, and even data analytics.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC launches StrategyDriven Advisory Services, a management consulting firm dedicated to helping executives and managers define organizational needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

’ Metrics seem to emphasize what organizations find immediately measurable — even if those are low value — and tend to ignore high value measurements simply because they seem harder to measure (whether they are or not). Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Organizations should coordinate management skills into its overall corporate strategy, in order to satisfy customer needs profitably, draw together the components for practical strategies and implement strategic requirements to impact the business. This is my review of how management styles have evolved. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The mentor requests pro-active changes of mentee, evaluates realism of goals and offers truths about path to success and shortcomings of mentee’s approaches. The management that takes steps to “fix themselves” rather than always projecting problems upon other people will have a successful organization.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Conceptualize your own personal goals. Understand conflicting societal goals. How individuals and organizations start out and what they become are different concepts. Non-profit organizations are the backbone of modern society. Categories of non-profit organizations (my own creation). Helping others.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 26, 2014

When organizations first start doing process improvement they use a myriad of ways to decide which processes to improve first, such as: IT bought some software and needs to install it, so let’s look at the current process first. A Macro Map is a graphical rendering of an organization as a portfolio of processes. START HERE.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2018

Each clerk at that company makes their personal behaviors the norms at their desks, and this is one of the largest organizations in America. Show individuals how they embody the whole of the organization. Honor the employees, who in turn honor the organization. Do you and your organization presently have a strategy-vision?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in. At whatever level one enters the ladder, he-she is trained, measured for performance and fits into the organization’s overall Big Picture. Values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism is an all-encompassing concept that must look at all aspects of the organization… first at the Big Picture and then at the pieces as they relate to the whole. Futurism is a connected series of strategies, methodologies and actions which will poise any organization to weather the forces of change. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Non-profit organizations and the causes they promote are greatly served by enlightening the public. Public education is an important part of the charge for those organizations. Every disc jockey had their favorite causes, and talk shows often featured representatives of non-profit organizations to discuss their services.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

The citizens and businesses along the Gulf shore, the environment -- they wanted their old lives back too. Auditing/monitoring and risk assessment – risk assessment is the "radar screen" of threats to your company. For the employees who worked on the rig, their families and friends; they wanted those 11 lives back.

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