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Unveiling Potential: How Effective Leadership Training Propels Companies Forward

N2Growth Blog

MAY 13, 2024

These competencies include strategic foresight, decision-making capabilities, and the ability to manage, inspire, and empower teams. A well-trained leader can inspire team unity, encourage innovation, and improve operational efficiency.

Training

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Board Performance Optimization: Beyond Compliance Towards Excellence

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. The strength of governance can be significantly amplified with the employment of a dedicated leadership team.

Compliance

Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics

What Space Exploration and Health Care Can Teach You About Navigating Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2024

In order to successfully navigate the uncertainty that characterizes today’s fast-paced and unpredictable world, leaders need to proactively prepare their teams for unexpected and time-sensitive emergencies. Start by proactively envisioning worst-case scenarios through brainstorming sessions, scenario planning, and risk assessments.

Health Care

Health Care Uncertainty Scenario Planning Brainstorming

A Practical Approach to Managing Workforce During COVID-19

HR Digest

OCTOBER 7, 2020

A structured strategy for managing workforce can bring consistency into overall operations during today’s challenging times by putting people first. At the heart of any organization’s talent management strategy is headcount planning to ensure that it has the right number of talent with the right skills.

Management

Management Supply Chain Crisis Scenario Planning

How to Overcome Strategic Leadership Challenges

Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 22, 2020

Effective strategic leadership – and the ability to solve strategic leadership challenges – requires different skills and perspectives than those required by day-to-day operational leadership. Operational leaders must meet short-term targets, master their functional area, and create stability for focused execution.

Leadership

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How to Think Like a Futurist

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2019

For me, the ideal timeframe for futurist thinking is 5-10 years, because although no one can successfully predict the future, in this window you are more likely to be able to clearly see where things are going according to current operating models. Organizations will also need to rethink their relationships with customers.

Flextime

Flextime How To Scenario Planning Consultative

The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 4 of 4

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Another energy industry client operated coal mines. What-if scenario planning is similar to the processes utilized in overall company strategic planning and visioning. The crisis plan must be part of the bigger process, not an adjunct or afterthought. The crisis teams need to be prepared.

Crisis Management

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting

Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

The Empathy Map looks like this: In this chapter the authors walk you through processes to arrive a enhanced design like Customer Insights, ideation, providing an introduction to the value of visual thinking, how to use prototyping, story telling, and Scenario Planning.

Business Model

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The Death of Supply Chain Management

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2018

The supply chain is the heart of a company’s operations. Rio Tinto, the global mining-and-metals company, is exploring how digital technologies can automate mine-to-port operations. For a small number of leading retail companies’ control towers have become the nerve center of their operations.

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Management Retail Technology

How Multinationals Should Be Planning for Brexit

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

The sooner firms have a Brexit plan, the faster they can focus on managing these competitive dynamics. How to Plan for Brexit. Companies need a working group that regularly assesses Brexit impacts relative to competition, and a strategic plan for their UK business that is straightforward, flexible, and easy to track.

Planning

Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop

Navigating the Complexities of Doing Business in Russia

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Interestingly, all these intrusions into business operations typically do not come from the Kremlin but from local officials who seem eager to gain the Kremlin’s favor amid instances of elevated international tensions. This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products.

Policies

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations

Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning. Scientific management and scenario planning, while forward-thinking, rely on information that’s in the rear view mirror. It’s an entirely different animal. Fire TV, Amazon Prime) and to stock its warehouses.

Strategy

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain

ExxonMobil’s Shareholder Vote Is a Tipping Point for Climate Issues

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

of the votes were in favor, providing a strong signal that climate change is an important financial risk and that shareholders want to know more about what companies are doing to transform their operations and products to remain competitive in a low-carbon world.

Tips

Tips Supply Chain Proposal Decentralization

The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Even before the official opening of London 2012, a mix-up with the flag for the North Korean women's football team had organizers scrambling to resolve a diplomatic spat. At the start of the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, it was a catalog of minor operational and logistical problems that led journalists to start reporting on "the glitch Games."

Risk Management

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance

Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning. Scientific management and scenario planning, while forward-thinking, rely on information that’s in the rear view mirror. It’s an entirely different animal. Fire TV, Amazon Prime) and to stock its warehouses.

Strategy

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain

Be Prepared for What You Don't See Coming

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

One way to reinforce this assumption is to engage in scenario planning before pulling the trigger, preferably by engaging people who will be affected by the change. Knowing this in advance caused management to modify the plan and present it in a different way, avoiding a strike. Test the waters.

Airlines

Airlines Supply Chain Scenario Planning Travel

What a Changing NAFTA Could Mean for Doing Business in Mexico

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Multinational companies operating in Mexico are facing a great deal of uncertainty. Many of the companies we work with that have operations in Mexico have taken up scenario planning to prepare for a range of potential economic and political changes in the country that could affect their businesses.

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing

Mindfulness Can Improve Strategy, Too

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

It’s essential to step back and ask not only whether the team has identified the right plans or solutions but whether they have identified the right questions and problems in the first place. Google’s Chade-Meng Tan , has developed dozens of such workplace meditation modules that could fit neatly into planning retreats.

Strategy

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The Death of Supply Chain Management

How Multinationals Should Be Planning for Brexit

Navigating the Complexities of Doing Business in Russia

Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

ExxonMobil’s Shareholder Vote Is a Tipping Point for Climate Issues

The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Be Prepared for What You Don't See Coming

What a Changing NAFTA Could Mean for Doing Business in Mexico

Mindfulness Can Improve Strategy, Too

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