N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. Here is a simple rule of thumb…the bigger the key man policy the less scalable the company is. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk. 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. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Whether your focus is on customer service, profits, investing, marketing, or company growth a constant awareness of your current position in relation to where you want to be is essential. Assets are adequately valued and managed.

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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. Start-ups are particularly at risk today because of both their size and age. Generally speaking, entrepreneurs may need to rethink their risks to improve the chances that their innovations succeed. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

But the emerging challenge of reducing risk exposure for coastal residents creates new opportunities for firms that can innovate and provide new solutions. Better Data Can Help Insurers More Accurately Price Climate Risk. Hayek , economists have emphasized the central role that price signals play in markets.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Yet even in this age of globalization, SMEs — their massive presence in the economy and vital role in innovation notwithstanding — are still viewed as largely only effective in their domestic and, occasionally, regional markets. Not surprisingly, two-thirds of all jobs created in the EU are created in SMEs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

” Policies such as the new EPA proposal, which would establish firm limits on carbon pollution from power plants, will only help accelerate these much-needed market innovations. Government Risk management Sustainability' Given the sheer scale of our energy system, such change doesn’t happen overnight.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It may do to physical goods what cloud computing is now doing to digital services; what the PC, internet, and smart mobility have done to personal computing; and what outsourcing did to software development and business processing — take mass distribution and innovation to the next level while realigning the very geography of work and trade.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Our instinct for determinism may well have been an evolutionary innovation. By understanding the data around which leads go on to become great customers, a sales leader can then work closely with their marketing colleagues to figure out new sources of potential customer prospects.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In the United States, beginning in 1927 with the Federal Caustic Poison Act, government policies requiring warnings initially focused on exposures that posed immediate, toxic hazards. government has mandated various on-product warnings and pursued many educational efforts designed to alert consumers to smoking’s substantial risks.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Which markets, partners, clients, or other opportunities can add significant value to our business? How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? What specific steps can you take to increase your area’s contribution margin? Does this add value to our core business?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

And then there''s politics: every politician wants to champion the "innovation" and growth aspects of the Internet, and there''s little to gain from highlighting what a dangerous place it really can be. A major national effort to educate the public and market a new "culture of security" for Internet behavior.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. Crises can have many liabilities upon companies, including loss of profits and market share. Don’t have sufficient management skills or resources to do something well. What Causes Crises.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Savage is the author of The Flaw of Averages (Wiley, 2009) and of an HBR article with the same title , chairman of Vector Economics , Inc (VectorEconomics.com), an adjunct faculty member at Stanford and Cambridge, and a frequent lecturer on risk modeling. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

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. Understanding Risk. Risk is a necessary feature of innovation. This loss aversion prevents taking appropriate risks.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

This popular triumph of the “ heuristics and biases ” literature pioneered by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has made us aware of flaws that economics long glossed over, and led to interesting innovations in retirement planning and government policy. Decision making Managing uncertainty Risk management'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

In fact, the increasing focus on pay by policy makers, shareholders, and the media has magnified its importance as a gauge of success for top executives and created a vicious cycle of ever-higher pay demands. Some countries have been highly innovative in this area. Exemplars of moderation on pay can be found in different markets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Nuclear reactors melted down, disrupting the national grid, reversing energy policies as far away as Germany, and contaminating a part of Japan for generations to come. A healthier approach also means managing acceptable losses. The disaster caused factories to close, not only in Japan, but in the United States and Europe as well.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

In doing research on multinational operations in the Middle East and Africa, we’ve learned that companies are well aware of how President Trump’s foreign and trade policies could affect their businesses there. Many companies are assessing their exposure to specific policy decisions (e.g., if the U.S. Product adaptation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

By that I mean that pharma companies should develop innovative treatments for pervasive unmet medical needs; avoid corruption, collusion, and other unethical marketing practices; and make sure that their products reach as many patients around the world as possible. Mitigate the risk of unethical conduct.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

The possibility of a contentious renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has led to delayed or canceled investments in what has been one of Latin America’s most economically stable markets. Renegotiating NAFTA. So, if a company manufactures products in Mexico to export to Canada and the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

So while the world seems to be waking up to a fundamental, existential threat to our species (and not to "the planet," which will be fine with or without us), the US policy debate remains mostly deaf, dumb, and blind. One line does not a policy make. But you wouldn't know it watching our political conventions (or at least one of them).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

And by shifting from defined benefit to defined contribution pension schemes, they have avoided the risks from increasingly long-lived retirees and persistently low interest rates. In other words, business leaders have been dealing with the direct, market-based risks presented by major economic, technological, and demographic trends.

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