N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

A terrorist incident, a breakdown of the London rail system, power blackouts, volcanic ash clouds , flooding, an outbreak of infectious disease—the London organizing committee (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spent years thinking about every scenario they could imagine.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 14, 2019

During this time they developed detailed expertise in navigating the visa processes around the world, and so they have moved away from jobs and towards providing dedicated visa support for individuals and organizations alike. Estonia certainly is a strong example here, ” Jobbatical founder Karoli Hindriks explains. ”

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Previous to our technological advancements, the only way businesses could manage their multiple consumer platforms, numerous transactional tasks, and recover from data emergencies was to outsource to a variety of vendors. While this may be an effective marketing approach, it generates an almost cutthroat atmosphere of competition.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Thanks to better file management and new information security technologies, companies can implement a much more advanced structuring across their organization. You start by organizing data into compartments based on the needs of the organization. The Right Measures.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

industries, and a review of hundreds of academic studies on the psychology of human performance, shows that most leaders and organizations tend to focus on just one type of performance. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The same is true for any team or organization.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. The biggest surprise after studying the Amazon letters to shareholders written by Jeff Bezos is how much management advice he provides.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

At Boeing, all enterprise technology (including digital) investments are managed by the CTO, which enables significant synergies. Leaving the organization structure "as is" reduces disruption while the mechanisms help facilitate working together across the units. Typically, though, some global risk management is necessary.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

More recently, CARVER has converted a new community of believers in the business world, including CEOs, financial analysts, and risk management planners, not to mention any number of Fortune 500 security directors. It can be highly useful if you need to, for example, defend a budget request or a strategic plan to company leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The Australian Defence Organization (ADO), which consists of the Australian Defence Force and the civilian Australian Department of Defence personnel supporting the ADF, has the same escalating challenge. Nowhere is the problem tougher than in national defense, where sophisticated actors, including nation states, engage in cyberwarfare.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

After all, attackers typically steal information by exploiting a technology-related vulnerability. Two aspects of a company’s culture have outsized effects on the security of its information: the organization’s tolerance for inconvenience and the degree of collaboration across business units and among employees.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

50% of the executives surveyed believe the reason why an attack on their organization would succeed would be due to human error of employees, compared to 31% of ITDMs. They may think differently about the nature of cyber risk and of the way threats translate into business and technological risks.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

That reality was made painfully clear in mid-May, when a cyberattacker using WannaCry ransomware crippled health care institutions and many other kinds of organizations around the world. Second, health care organizations have been slow to adopt practices that have worked for other industries. No industry or sector is immune to hacking.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

It is by now abundantly clear that, left unchecked, AI algorithms embedded in digital and social technologies can encode societal biases , accelerate the spread of rumors and disinformation, amplify echo chambers of public opinion, hijack our attention , and even impair our mental wellbeing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

Risk management is critical for business decisions — but may not be healthy for making decisions about your career. In fact, if you want your career to take off, you may need to do the opposite of what risk managers try to do: Instead of focusing on how to reduce risks, you may need to embrace and enhance them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These threats change the risk management calculus of firms hoping to succeed in a more turbulent world. Census Bureau shows that these businesses were more likely than the average business to close permanently after Hurricane Katrina, for example. Start-ups are particularly at risk today because of both their size and age.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Is there any aspect of your daily life and business that is not significantly affected by digital technology? So one would think that, in light of this, boards of directors would be actively steering their organizations through the digital revolution, right? Not likely. According to recent research , it appears not. This is disturbing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The biggest mistake I see is companies treating cybersecurity solely as a technology matter for IT departments to solve. That’s why I stress the value of a cyber risk management framework that begins by focusing on the business factors driving growth and profitability and ends with the technology infrastructure.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Yes, political hacktivists brag about Web pages defaced and customer information released over the Internet, but companies rarely reveal the attacks that result in the loss of valuable intellectual property — business plans, proprietary technologies or fraudulent payments. These attacks can be devastating.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

As technology has become more sophisticated, it has taken over more and more functions previously performed by pilots, bringing huge improvements in aviation safety. Pilots spend much of their time managing and monitoring, rather than actively flying, their aircraft. million flights.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Organizations are increasingly aware of the impact of insider cyber threats, but most are more prepared to respond to external cyber threats. Yet, most organizations do not have a formal insider threat program; and those that do are typically reactive. One survey in 2015 found that on average, just 3.6%

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

But given that today's CMO is often the main connection between the consumer and the company, a strong relationship with the CIO can allow her to leverage technology to better understand those customers. It's up to the CEO to ensure that marketing and IT are on the same page in terms of both innovation goals and risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. We speculate that because CMOs and CROs have historically focused on different aspects of the business, there are few examples of close CMO-CRO collaboration today. The risk function can do the same.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

The second is crafting a cybersecurity framework that addresses risks across government and industry — and to do so quickly. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants a preliminary framework in place by the end of this summer, with a final set of guidelines ready to go in February 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

At the same time, front-runners across industries are partnering with technology companies to identify game-changing business solutions that can be achieved through AI. Organizations can scale exponentially by using virtual assistants to help manage areas such as information search, data management, and process automation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

Examples include collaboration platforms such as MeetX , Virtualboardroom , Diligent , and Boardpad.) But there are plenty of other tools they could be using to do their jobs better — technologies that have proved useful in other contexts. Boards Technology Communication Collaboration' Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

Traditionally, cyber security research has focused on technical solutions to specific threats: for example, how to filter spam or protect PCs and mobile devices against the latest malware. These types of cyber-issues must be addressed not only with technological solutions, but also on the social, political, and policy levels.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Your organization needs a CNEO—a Chief Network Effects Officer—to integrate and align how your enterprise gets value from “ harvesting collective intelligence.”. Network effects, not unlike risk management, transcend traditional enterprise functions and silos. The opportunities are clear; the responsibilities are not.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Consider that in just the first two months of 2018, 24 health care provider organizations reported data breaches affecting over 1,000 patients each, a 60% increase over the same time period last year. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

I’m at Lockheed Martin where we focus relentlessly on expanding and improving the technology and tradecraft to remain ahead of adversaries. it would be naïve to think that our adversaries are not finding opposing uses for these technologies). Information & technology Knowledge management Risk management'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Commentators and researchers have focused on the crucial role of the CEO in leading effective corporate action to promote high performance, high integrity , and sound risk management. One key to this partnership is identifying risk priorities—whether economic (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

technology companies as much as $35 billion in potential business. At the same time, several technology platforms that do not collect or share personal data have emerged since mid-2013. Large technology companies might have to pay as much as $200 million to build a data center in Russia, compared with $43 million in the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Businesses mostly seek to avoid risk. Leaders equate risk with potential failure, so organizations have morphed into hierarchical, fixed systems to constrain variability within an acceptable range that has become progressively narrower. There is no safe innovation, only varying risk and reward.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

There are all sorts of reasons why so many big organizations can be slow to make changes that everyone agrees need to be made. In other words, most leaders and organizations are really good at quantifying the risks of trying something bold or striking out in a new direction. The solution?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

For example, they may think about cyber defense as a fortification process — if you build strong firewalls, with well-manned turrets, you’ll be able to see the attacker from a mile away. That’s why cybersecurity efforts have to focus on risk management , not risk mitigation.

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