N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

She has held roles of increasing seniority including VP and Senior Business Partner, leading Human Resources for the North America Geography, Global Product Creation (Footwear, Apparel and Equipment), Global Finance and NIKE, Inc. Affiliates. Hoffmann-La Roche.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Gallup’s annual Economy and Personal Finance survey for 2013 revealed that 70 percent of Americans do not prepare a detailed personal budget. Entrepreneurs who handle their personal finances this way are prone to carry the same habits over into their business planning.

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Goal Planning Marketing Succession 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

This year, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve System, and central bankers are taking a historical perspective. In 2008 a loss of confidence in the banking system did not turn into a consumer run on banks primarily because of FDIC deposit insurance.). (In earlier this month. Consider leaving a comment!

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Banking Crisis Morale System 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Breaches of data integrity, or BDIs, can damage a company’s reputation, demographic, product or service, or what’s worse, and often the outcome, finances. Data integrity can become compromised intentionally, via cyber thievery, or as a result of system changes, human error, or natural causes.

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Software Insurance System Operations 50

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.) During this time, we raised the quality systems and actual performance to allow exports of Australian-made Nissans to Japan. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

All of which points to a 2013 that looks nothing like 2012. FINANCING THAT VACATION HOME IN VANUATU. What do the iPod Shuffle, the Xbox 360, and the Bose Acoustic Wave system have in common? A Rip-Roaring Trade in Corporate Secrecy (The Guardian). Want to set up a company without revealing that you own it? Stay tuned.

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Outsourcing GDP Bottom-up Call Center 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

The experiential, highly interactive course included intensive exploration and training in 4 core Masteries: Personal Mastery, Interpersonal Mastery, Team Mastery and Culture and Systems Mastery. We spent half a million dollars to train our people and restructure our reward systems over 10 years. Consider leaving a comment!

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Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 64

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. What this means for 2013 is that women have a huge opportunity to convert their connections into career advancement. That sounds like progress. The Start Up Paradox.

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Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

We plotted shared directorships among 176 large companies in 1976 and 2013, two years that followed a major global economic crisis. Only about 18% of interlocks were international in 1976, and most of those were transatlantic links in finance and energy — two of the first industries to begin globalizing. Board Interlocks, 2013.

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Crisis Globalization Banking Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Despite this lack of focused attention toward development of leadership capabilities in trainees, evidence suggests that leadership quality affects patients, healthcare system outcomes, and finances alike. A second, separate set of necessary skills deals with systems literacy.

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Training Leadership Health Care Education 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. As the talent ecosystem evolves to offer more options, talent systems have not kept pace. Why are typical work systems uncoordinated?

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Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” Vic Roos, Lead Purchasing Program Manager, explained, “We let a finance guy in the room.

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Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

As growth became a competitive imperative, business leaders began seeing the firm as a system of investment rather than a system of production. Finance Human resources' How did this happen and what can be gleaned from it to inform the transformation of the CHRO? Let’s think about the realm that the CFO led.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

Therefore we need to see significantly greater investment in the education systems of these parts of the world – and others. To be clear, this is not about privatizing state education systems. So what can the rest of us do to spur the development of better finance, and take investment and corporate involvement to the next level?

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GDP Education Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Create and improve systems to manage staff’s and students’ needs — schedules, records, facilities, personnel, and budgets. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Go well beyond job descriptions.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

However, in recent years a parallel explosion of digital tools and services has taken place in the manufacturing realm as well, drawing in computer-assisted design and 3D printing equipment to open-source operating systems, the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The responsibility can range from just shopping for essentials to arranging doctor’s appointments, providing transportation, taking care of finances and medicines or even a full-fledged role of assisting in their daily tasks. There are very few people who have at some point in their lives not taken up a caregiver’s role. In the U.S.

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Absenteeism Policies Cost Human Resources 105

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Inter-domain complexity challenges us whenever a hospital patient has co-morbidities (heart and liver problems for example), or a business problem spans marketing and finance, or a political problem bridges foreign relations and domestic economics. Among them will be a common sense that complexity is dropping, not rising.

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Finance Education Drucker Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

They had a fuller discussion in 2013–2014 — around the time when media reports of the illicit behavior first surfaced. Stumpf testified that he personally became aware in 2013 when, after two years of ineffective solutions within the business unit, the volume of fake accounts was still increasing.

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Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. Based on this insight, Habitat sought to address the deficit in more systemic ways.

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Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

I’d like to share what I learned while leading an SBM — to help other states as they navigate the health insurance landscape and, more broadly, to inform health-system leaders, employers, and policy makers about the challenges SBMs face and the solutions they’re developing. Since 2013, an estimated 16.4

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Despite high unemployment rates and increasing numbers of irregular workers, the Japanese government failed to overhaul the country’s welfare system so that it would be better able to prevent the dismantlement of the middle class. The Japanese welfare system was poorly suited to the task because it was led largely by corporations.

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Consensus Class Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. By the end of 2013, Gartner research estimates half of all companies will have to produce social media records for e-discovery. The best of these systems even come with their own archiving tools already built-in.

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Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Fama is convinced that financial bubbles don’t exist, and until the dot-com era he was able to keep most of his colleagues in academic finance from even using the word “bubble.” The actual outcome for Cisco turned out to be a 156% increase in net income from fiscal 2000 through fiscal 2013. Economy Finance Managing uncertainty'

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Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. And if exchanges cover a sizable fraction of the insured population, they will have the clout to change the delivery system. (For Many conservatives still decry the ACA.

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Insurance Goal Health Care Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

” Your investor reporting systems may soon be required to answer a call to meet these reporting standards. For example, in the standalone human capital report from Deutsche Bank (2013), the bank showed trends in its investment in training — and in 2013 investment went down.

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Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. This is not an argument against technology — it’s a recommendation for increased systems monitoring and regular conversations with IT managers. The blockchain is a sort of distributed consensus system, where no one person controls all the data.

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Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

This is a problem, because without a reasonable definition (or definitions) of culture, we cannot hope to understand its connections to other key elements of the organization, such as structure and incentive systems. Beginning May 1, 2013, I facilitated a discussion around this question on LinkedIn. Culture is a social control system.

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Incentives Definition Pharmaceuticals System 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

” Adesina competed for the AfDB presidency against several accomplished bankers and finance ministers. Adesina’s success in applying market mechanisms to create widespread opportunity lead Forbes to name him African of the Year in 2013. Africa has begun to develop its own systems, and small startups play a significant role.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Sales doubled in 2013. Just a couple of weeks ago, BuildDirect received $30 million in additional financing led by Venture Capital firm Mohr Davidow. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. Early on, BuildDirect had its setbacks and near-death experiences, but in each of the last four years growth has accelerated.

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Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. We include five categories of AI technology systems: robotics and autonomous vehicles, computer vision, language, virtual agents, and machine learning.).

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Unless we do something about the current set up, the tax system may end up as a major factor in the fall of that talent economy. As I see it, the tax system has moved through four distinct eras over the last century and a half. I have inflated all the incomes to 2013 dollars to make comparisons more easily understood.

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System Incentives Hedge Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. It seems only logical that they would extend into corporate strategy and finance.

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran. However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. financial system , this pressure will not ease in the near term. However, remaining U.S. Accessing foreign exchange.

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The dissertation became a book, titled What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider’s Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences (HBR Press, 2013). But if these people can’t take a longer-term approach and trust one another, should we trust them — and should they really be working at systemically important banks?

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Banking Ethics Long-term Hedge 9