Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In our online-entrenched age, and especially as the world continues to wait out the COVID-19 pandemic, it bodes well for your business that it can access a wide range of markets – both familiar and untapped – from practically anywhere. So, how can you counter that risk? Employ best practices on payment cards.

Software 100

Software Human Resources System Document 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

Most have done a great job of containing their financial reporting and compliance risks. But what about the more strategic risk areas, such as those related to emerging market entry or acquisition growth strategies? At the same time, they are effectively containing financial reporting and compliance risks.

Risk Management 13

Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 13

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

It is about more than the contents of a financial report. Corporate Responsibility means operating a business in ways that meet or exceed the ethical, legal, commercial and public expectations that society has of business. Integrity is personal and professional. It bespeaks to every aspect of the way in which we do business.

Ethics 51

Ethics Mission Statement Strategic Planning Benchmarking 51

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

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. Seattle has partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to optimise energy use – featured in this report on big data use by different cities.

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Strategy Driven

MAY 14, 2014

If you’re interested in this type of solution, make sure the provider allows rapid data syncing on and off the cloud and operates in multiple environments. A good management console solution can streamline creation and distribution of sync jobs with grouping functions and enhance analytics with reporting tools. About the Author.

Strategy 58

Strategy Directory System Competitive Advantage 58

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Companies have long been required to issue audited financial statements for the benefit of financial markets and other stakeholders. That’s because — like algorithms — companies’ internal operations appear as “black boxes” to those on the outside. First, it should adopt a holistic perspective.

Ethics 11

Ethics Report System Sample 11

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. These firms were more than twice as likely to report that their access to credit had decreased since before Sandy. Data from the U.S.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Already a large domestic market, Frontier Strategy Group’s estimates suggest the country will average growth rates between 7.4% However, India remains a difficult market for multinational firms to enter. India is a large, fragmented, and heterogeneous market. Step 2: Measure operating environment.

Strategy 8

Strategy Operations Policies Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Computers wouldn’t just speed up processes or automate certain tasks — they could upset nearly all business processes and allow executives to rethink operations from the ground up. Managers noted historical trends and revised processes, and engineers developed code that was then baked into computing systems.

Process 8

Process Company Market Segmentation Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

billion people, the Chinese consumer market is a tempting target for Western technology companies. The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. With over 1.3

Ethics 8

Ethics Technology Short-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. These include legislation, regulation, investigation, enforcement, litigation, ethics, reputation, crisis management, corporate citizenship, and pressures from public officials, NGOs, and the media.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. The truth is, unless all these people understand they own a piece of the problem and can be brought to deal with it together, you cannot manage information security.

Company 8

Company Chief Operating Officer Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

But for businesses, knowing when to expend time and effort preventing — and planning responses to — low probability, high consequence events is now, more than ever, one of the hardest and most important risk management problems to address. And its effects could have been mitigated by a more effective human response."

Risk Management 10

Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis Report 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

boss, Ina Drew , the former head of their unit in of the bank's, the Chief Investment Office (CIO); and CEO Jamie Dimon, to whom the CIO reported who oversaw the CIO. boss, Ina Drew , the former head of their unit in of the bank's, the Chief Investment Office (CIO); and CEO Jamie Dimon, to whom the CIO reported who oversaw the CIO.

CIO 8

CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

She distilled the notes about her many accomplishments into an overview of the 10 years in her current role: Keep University’s School of Design (eight graduate programs) running flawlessly for Director, other staff, faculty, and students — during routine operations and emergencies. into multiple global markets.

COO 11

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. Between 2013 and 2015 cyber-crime costs quadrupled, with the reported incidence rate growing exponentially. Today most organizations are data-driven to one degree or another.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Intellectual Capital Corporate Accountability Activity Based Costing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

And isn’t lowering costs exactly what managers focused on shareholder value are supposed to be doing? We find the debate interesting because it offers a great example of reputation risk – and more specifically, of why such risk has to be assessed both quantitatively and qualitatively. and save bundles. The deal fell through.)

Reputation 8

Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 8

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. sales, marketing, manufacturing, intellectual property—in all business units in all geographies.

CFO 8

CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

For many years, we will be measuring how loss of corporate credibility has tainted all facets of business, in terms of remediation, replacement, litigation, make-good, rework, damage control, recovery process, settlements to victims, decreased stock market value and sagging retail sales. Rebuilding the community image.

Crisis 58

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 58

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Each of the potential business benefits of 3D printing carries tax implications that could alter the equation for any anticipated operating efficiency or return on investment. For more detail on 3D printing and taxation issues, see EY’s recent report.). Are there operations you would shed?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

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. In the United States, similar sentiments prevail. The Small Business Administration and the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Technology Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Over three billion credentials were reported stolen last year. Now multiply those numbers by the total number of websites where users have reused their passwords, as well as the number of data breaches that have been reported, to get a better sense of the threat. Of course, that still only includes the data breaches we know about.

ROI 8

ROI Long-term Banking System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

In the case of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the most impressive fact few reporters choose to explore in any depth is that the Boeing 777’s engine was capable of communicating long after the pilots went silent. If the news media were more tech-oriented, they would report this as an Internet of Things (IoT) story.

Airlines 8

Airlines Supply Chain Management Engineering 8

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. No two organizations are the same, and neither are the cultures and contexts in which they operate. What tone will work with the staff?

Health Care 9

Health Care Forrester Policies Tactics 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. We’re starting to recognize that this relatively new situation has important ramifications for how businesses operate, and we’re making some progress. Insight Center.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Institutional banking businesses — including trading operations — typically don't have high barriers to entry. financial institution has pulled back or failed, there has almost always been a European bank or a Japanese bank or some other player willing to take over its trading operations or enter the market in its place.

Banking 8

Banking Hedge Constraint Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Poor controls over risk and valuations. Manipulation of energy markets. In his letter to shareholders in this year’s Annual Report, Dimon said that “we are now making our control agenda priority #1.” Boards Ethics Risk management' Deceptive communication within the company and to the board.

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

million from $23 million, after the London Whale loss (even as they cut his pay, the board praised Dimon for responding “forcefully” to the trading loss, presiding over an overhaul of the bank’s risk management, and getting rid of the responsible executives).

Banking 8

Banking Risk Management Constraint Finance 8

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Here’s why: “Most organizations see leaders'' as drivers of results - exceeding sales quotas, deepening market share, boosting profits, etc. Examples: an accounting manager could shadow HR for a day or an person in operations could learn more about the sales process.

Leadership Development 283

Leadership Development Development Planning Self-aware 283

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

If you're in Northern California, reports of elevated radiation levels in Sacramento is unsettling, to say the least, especially if you're part of the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial revival and just want to move ahead with your social network business. Officials chose lower-cost expedience over excellence.

Benchmarking 14

Benchmarking Health Care Loyalty Construction 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

With its assistance, boards can make sense of all the market, customer, and competitor data at their disposal — both historical and current — and analyze it with greater rigor. AI tools free up valuable meeting time for discussions about the most important decisions and trade-offs. The board of Communities in Schools , a U.S.

Scenario Planning 8

Scenario Planning Tools Technology Compliance 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Of the companies who continue to operate without a plan, 40% of them will be out of business in the next 10 years. 41% of employees falsify records and reports. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets.

Budgeting 82

Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 82

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

In 2005, Dimon hired Ina Drew to head the company's Chief Investment Office, the unit responsible for the bank's risk exposure. On April 4 of this year, Dimon read a short article in the Wall Street Journal about a JPMorgan trader in London, Bruno Iksil, who was making massive bets that exposed the bank to high levels of risk.

Banking 9

Banking Kahneman Document Simon 9

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 are the potential risks vs. possible rewards and what is the downside of not making the investment?

Team Building 284

Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

This Annual Report issue celebrates the year, as basis for helping business people to prepare for the future. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. They’ve changed more than they wish to acknowledge.

Planning 60

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 60