Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Marathon Consulting Group provides services in the following areas: Monitoring: Business Performance Assessment Program, Corrective Action Program, Management Observation Program. Management: Risk Management, Standards & Expectations. Values: Corporate Cultures. About Marathon Consulting Group.

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Consultative Risk Management Tactics Advice 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. Most have done a great job of containing their financial reporting and compliance risks. This is where executives are far less confident. What does maturity look like in practice?

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Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 14

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2019

We have created legions of risk managers posing as leaders, when what we need are more leaders who understand how opportunity adds value, shapes culture, attracts talent, and brings about transformative change. A ready – fire – aim approach to opportunity management usually fails to hit the target.

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Due Diligence Metrics Competitive Advantage Rogers 167

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

While CEO’s can’t be in charge of recruiting, it’s important to realize that CEOs still own responsibility for the outcome – the buck always stops at the desk of the chief executive. Rather in most instances, I believe HR should be a compliance, training and risk management function.

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Insurance Bottom-up CEO Compliance 299

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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Compliance Environment Resources Management 50

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2012

And how can executives in other companies and organizations prevent such a costly tragedy? If current employees are hesitant to talk, HR should also be conducting exit interviews , particularly in high-risk occupations like healthcare, to identify any areas that may put the company, its customers and consumers at risk.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity. These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics.

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Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

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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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Clarify management values. Usually, management has not yet articulated their own individual values, let alone those of the organization. The last draft of the statement will be an executive summary of collective ideas and works of the Visioning team. Technology is a tool, which feeds into tactics.

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Mission Statement Benchmarking Tactics Strategic Planning 80

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2015

I sat in a meeting of highly educated business executives. Many people used to do the same thing with the word ‘technology,’ using it far from its reasonable definitions. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they’re victims of it.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Budgeting Risk Management 50

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

The fact of the matter is that senior executives who rise to the C-suite do so largely based upon their ability to consistently make sound decisions. Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk.

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Blog Analysis CEO Brand 386

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2020

As there are more data breaches making headlines affecting a wide variety of companies, it seems that nobody is exempt from cyber terrorism or crime relating to technology. As technology is such a major investment and the fact that we rely on it to do 95% of our tasks, we need to make sure that our employees know how to use it properly.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

They can sound geeky, but they are developments that every manager needs to understand. It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. Ultimately, technology has to serve us, not the other way around.

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Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they’re victims of it.

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 75

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. Here are three key strategies any business can adopt in the coming year to boost profitability: 1.

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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. These factors form a formidable foundation for effective organizational governance when paired together.

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Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

By disclosing a breach, CFOs of publicly traded companies might trigger investor panic and sell-off, whereas private company CFOs risk irreparable harm to consumer and employee confidence. Andrew Douthwaite has over 17 years of technology experience joining VirtualArmour in 2007 as a senior engineer. About the Author.

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Chief Technology Officer Short-term How To Long-term 75

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2018

Above that, Customer Focused Management needs to be implemented, meaning that all actions and decisions should be tied to customer outcomes. Where mid-managers buy the hype of the marketing slogans but stonewall the progress that would enable the company to live up to its claims. Celebrate great customer outcomes.

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Company Self-aware Creativity Marketing 51

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2021

Unfortunately, cyber attackers evolve as technology changes and make their attacks even more sophisticated. When the news of a data breach gets into the ears of the company’s executive and other people, it’s easy to attach the fault to some employee who clicked the wrong link. Avoid Blame Games.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Whether a company succeeds or fails ultimately depends on whether it hired the right people to effectively execute its strategies. Relate Articles: Complimentary Resource – Enterprise Risk Management: Keeping People, Assets, and the Environment Safe. Complimentary Resource – Recruitment Technology.

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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. When all succeed, then profitability is much higher and more sustained than under the Hard Nose management style. Managers and employees begin seeing themselves as leaders and grow steadily into those roles.

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 26, 2014

I suggest starting with a small group of executives/managers who know the work of the department or division. (If With the managers: Begin with listing the customers – the people who receive or use the output. Explain how you built the first draft of the map with the managers, and what its components are.

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Process Strategy BPM Metrics 57

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke, Technology and the Future. Futurism: ideas that inspire, manage and benchmark change. The following concepts do not constitute Futurism by themselves: sales, technology, re-engineering, marketing, research, training, operations, administration.

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Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Determining the ROI for any cybersecurity investment, from staff training to AI-enabled authentication managers, can best be described as an enigma shrouded in mystery. That’s why cybersecurity efforts have to focus on risk management , not risk mitigation. But this pessimistic outlook makes for a very tough sell.

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Execution ROI Metrics CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well. manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, according to a leading technology industry analyst. Most hearing aids in the U.S. Threat analysis.

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Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Still, top executives continue to stumble in the way they respond to an attack, magnifying and extending the damage both to their reputation and their customers. Here are the missteps executives make time and again, and advice for avoiding these pitfalls: Foot dragging. Insight Center. The Human Element of Cybersecurity.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Businesses are constantly experimenting with new ways to use artificial intelligence for better risk management and faster, more responsive fraud detection — and even to predict and prevent crimes. While today’s basic technology is not necessarily revolutionary, the algorithms it uses and the results they can produce are.

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Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Through AI, machine learning, robotics, and advanced analytics, firms are augmenting knowledge-intensive areas such as supply chain planning, customer order management, and inventory tracking. And 92% of executives surveyed said supply chain workforces will be upskilled and enabled to interact and work with machines seamlessly.

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Supply Chain Technology System Engineering 8

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. (One of us, Luke, is so enthusiastic about CARVER that he cowrote a book on it.).

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Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

There are a variety of places where corporations and boards look for potential CEOs, but the leagues of management consulting generally isn’t one of them. So why should a company consider hiring a management consultant to be their CEO? It can’t be the case that any old consultant should lead up a company.

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Consultative CEO Management Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2014

Specifically, he saw that the advent of digital technologies was going to fundamentally alter the way people conduct commerce, pay for things, and manage and move their money. It was a technology-driven form factor. There’s a group that we call the “new middle class”—it consists of 100 million Americans, and 2.5 Leadership'

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Execution Software Banking Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

I discuss cybersecurity with hundreds of executives every year. The biggest mistake I see is companies treating cybersecurity solely as a technology matter for IT departments to solve. According to our “CEO Outlook” study, cybersecurity is the most important risk concern on chief executives’ minds right now.

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Contingency Plans Risk Management Insurance Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Every large financial services company has instituted risk management, but that hasn't prevented risky behavior in the form of office politics and personality conflict — as the JP Morgan trading debacle has demonstrated. Risk management isn't exclusive to banking. But all too often, those safeguards are ignored.

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Merchandising Risk Management Supply Chain Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. Still, it’s telling that board members rate their boards better on risk management than on innovation. Jason Jaroslav Cook Creative/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

A property-and-casualty insurance company, for instance, knew that business customers who invested in risk management were longer tenured and more profitable than others. So executives identified a unit that was far behind plan, where the reps were unlikely to earn their bonus. They make a game out of it. It might help.”

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Tools Workshop Information Technology Risk Management 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

A recently published global survey of C-Suite level executives and IT Decision Makers (ITDMs) revealed a large gap in assessments of cyber threats, costs and areas of responsibilities. Among the most significant disconnects: 80% of the executives surveyed in the U.S. million cited by executives.

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Technology Survey Cost Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Is there any aspect of your daily life and business that is not significantly affected by digital technology? Of course, age isn’t everything; nor is having a digitally-savvy non-executive director a guarantee of success for your digital transformation.). Not likely. years in 2013 from 60.3 in 2003, an all-time high. (Of

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Business Model Technology Long-term Risk Management 8