Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2021

Unfortunately, cyber attackers evolve as technology changes and make their attacks even more sophisticated. Securing your systems and data is just as essential as marketing your products and services. So it would be best to treat employee training with seriousness as you would treat marketing.

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Training How To Policies Budgeting 93

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Cyber attacks spiked 164% in the first half of 2017, compared to the same period in 2016, entailing 918 disclosed breaches-according reports on broadcaster CNBC. Middle-market businesses often assume they’ll be overlooked by attackers, whether due to a large number of similar companies, or a lack of enticing assets. About the Author.

Chief Technology Officer 88

Chief Technology Officer Short-term How To Long-term 88

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. The reason?

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Strategy Driven

MAY 14, 2014

The type of data sync approach your company should pursue depends on your unique business needs, your workforce and your technology assets. 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 61

Strategy Directory System Competitive Advantage 61

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. First, it should adopt a holistic perspective.

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Ethics Report System Sample 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

billion people, the Chinese consumer market is a tempting target for Western technology companies. The recent news that Google is considering a re-entry into China further highlights a troubling balancing act faced by technology companies looking to do business there. With over 1.3 ” Google’s bind is a common one.

Ethics 8

Ethics Technology Short-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

But today, acquiring and interpreting customer data inherently must involve both the marketing and IT departments. In fact, recent research [PDF] conducted by the CMO Council, suggests that this process should start with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and the Chief Information Officer (CIO). Find Common Ground.

CIO 9

CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. But when I put the question to top management, well, they''re busy — not their problem, that''s for sure — and they refer me to the chief information officer or the chief technology officer. Why Your CEO Is a Security Risk.

Company 8

Company Chief Operating Officer Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 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. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

Merchandising 10

Merchandising Risk Management Supply Chain Retail 10

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

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 11

Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis Report 11

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Yet, unlike money, the market for personal data is relatively embryonic. 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. Manage brand reputation by engaging with data rating agencies.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 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

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. Some of these nano-multinationals take their products global via network technologies.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Globalization Technology Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In the early 1990s, executives and managers welcomed information technology — databases, PC workstations, and automated systems — into their offices. Managers noted historical trends and revised processes, and engineers developed code that was then baked into computing systems. times more likely to convert.

Process 8

Process Company Market Segmentation Early Adopters 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 9

Airlines Supply Chain Management Engineering 9

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

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. ” Improving risk management. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

But there are plenty of other tools they could be using to do their jobs better — technologies that have proved useful in other contexts. Through virtual-reality technology, for instance, boards could gain a deeper understanding of their companies and the value they create. Boards Technology Communication Collaboration'

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Scenario Planning Tools Technology Compliance 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. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier. Sponsored by Optum.

Health Care 10

Health Care Forrester Policies Tactics 10

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.” Deceptive communication within the company and to the board. LIBOR rate rigging. on actual outlays and $2.5B

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 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 10

ROI Long-term Banking System 10

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. ZB by 2020.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Which markets, partners, clients, or other opportunities can add significant value to our business? Do you have the necessary resources (financial, technology, talent, infrastructure, etc.) How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? to hit your objectives?

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Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Despite increased spending and innovation in the cybersecurity market, there is every indication that the situation will only worsen. It may be prudent, and required, for you to continue with awareness programs, but you will have to rely more on intelligent technologies and automation if you hope to have any chance at success.

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System Bottom-up Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Neither was anxious to do so for political reasons, but the spate of recent media reports and public leaks have left Obama, at least, with no real choice. A major national effort to educate the public and market a new "culture of security" for Internet behavior. Government Information & technology Risk management'

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Engineering Information Technology System 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As the pioneering Danish firm Specialisterne showed first in the early 2000s, however, and as the Australian Defence Organization’s partner DXC Technology has demonstrated through deployments in Australia, if you manage things right, you can recruit great talent and activate it to a maximum degree from populations of autistic people.

Organization 8

Organization Analysis Incubator Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

This Annual Report issue celebrates the year, as basis for helping business people to prepare for the future. Technology is but one tool of the trade. In the 1940s, technology brought us the 45-RPM and 33-1/3-RPM records… adding up to the ‘mother speed’ of 78-RPM. Ideas make the future happen. About the Author.

Planning 71

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 71

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Some years ago, doing some research for our book MarketBusters , my colleague Ian MacMillan and I ran across some interesting experiments Progressive Insurance was doing to change the business model in the car insurance market. Well, lo and behold, the Wall Street Journal reported this week that the concept is finally ready for prime time.

Insurance 14

Insurance Discount Incentives System 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

As the scale and complexity of the cyber threat landscape is revealed, so too is the general lack of cybersecurity readiness in organizations, even those that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on state-of-the-art technology. Spending millions on security technology can certainly make an executive feel safe.

Training 12

Training Supply Chain Agility Risk Management 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

In the manufacturing sector alone, market intelligence firm IDC expects the IoT market to grow to about $100 billion by 2018, a five-year combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18%. All of this change will require new technologies that enable faster, more secure ways for machines to share and process data. Insight Center.

Innovation 8

Innovation CAGR Diversity Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

On paper, the project seemed like it would be a hit: The investment by the mining company would bring jobs and 21st-century technology to an economically poor area and tax revenues to the government. Managers need to communicate directly with many stakeholders to build a shared understanding of local needs, issues, and concerns.

Company 10

Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

This is a big transition for firms whose marketing, sales-training and enablement tools, and wider organizational processes reflect outdated assumptions about purchasing in their markets. The marketing–sales relationship now tops the agenda of concerns in a survey of B2B executives.

B2B 8

B2B AIDA AIDAS Disintermediation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

This idea of prospect theory, developed by Tversky and Kahneman and reported in a classic 1979 article (for which the Nobel prize was awarded) demonstrated that individuals do not make decisions rationally by selecting options with the highest expected value, because they are risk-averse and 'losses loom larger than gains.'.

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Kahneman Tversky Company Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

It can often seem like digital technology is making every aspect of business move at warp speed. There are real benefits to this real-time business capability: getting to market faster, capturing value quicker, more immediate responsiveness to customer needs. For example, they provide dashboards that report on bug counts by developer.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Development Software 8