Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Plan for the future. When your business has contingency plans for future scenarios you will seldom be caught by surprise. Most successful businesses have planned responses to most scenarios because they took the time to think “What If”. CEO accepts and ideas and philosophies with employees and stakeholders.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Today I am the CEO of Carbonite, a publicly-traded data protection company. This is the kind of diverse team that CEOs covet and that builds great businesses. For the first time in the company’s history, the board hired a CEO from outside the company – an immigrant of sorts to the IBM nation. I believe the U.S.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Contingency Plans Travel CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

On some level, CEOs know this. According to our “CEO Outlook” study, cybersecurity is the most important risk concern on chief executives’ minds right now. Companies that can talk about upcoming changes and plan for them in advance can build adaptive, agile, and effective cybersecurity strategies.

Contingency Plans 8

Contingency Plans Risk Management Insurance Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

Judging by our interactions with CEOs around the world to date, some of their burning questions are: What are the elements of uncertainty created by Brexit? This is how we recommend CEOs approach these difficult questions: Identify the sources of uncertainty. What are the first-response imperatives for corporate leaders? Run scenarios.

Uncertainty 9

Uncertainty Short-term Supply Chain Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

President Obama is not the only one having to decide whether to cut or modify vacation plans at a challenging moment. Volatility creates similar situations for CEOs, small business owners, and professionals of all stripes. Are there continuity, backup, and contingency plans? If anyone is working, it should be the leader.

Contingency Plans 17

Contingency Plans Sharpe Bond Planning 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

In this complex, fraught situation, people need a compassionate guide — a wise, comforting sherpa who knows the mountain, the risks of various routes, the viable contingency plans. The physician-sherpa should be a partner on the journey, not simply a medical operative, extracting formulaic rules and implements from a toolbox.

Balanced Scorecard 12

Balanced Scorecard Contingency Plans Active Listening Guidelines 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The operational executives, for their part, when confronted by a subject that typically neither they nor their teams completely grasp, all too often come up with little more than a contingency plan and then sit back and hope nothing goes wrong — meanwhile, excessive risk costs continue to reduce the company's present value.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

Bonus - Always have a Plan B : Another component of communications strategy that is rarely discussed is how to prevent a message from going bad, and what to do when does. It’s called being prepared and developing a contingency plan. If your expertise, empathy, clarity, etc.

Tips 398

Tips Blog Learning-by-Doing Open-book 398

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

“If the company is not doing something you feel proud of, you need to go to your contingency plan,” he says. She left Verizon in 2014, and today she is the CEO of Let’s Grow Leaders, a consulting company. Principles to Remember. Listen to and absorb what senior leadership says about why the reorg is happening.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Stress Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

In a world where the best laid plans can go awry, companies that react quickly and effectively come out on top. Rigorous contingency planning is as important as disciplined action planning. Well before the crash, Caterpillar’s CEO insisted that all division heads develop contingency plans for a recession.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

to Amazon Web Services and/or other cloud providers, you need to know their security protocols and contingency plans have intensified to mission-critical. In another context, Intel co-founder and former CEO Andy Grove once observed, "Only the paranoid survive." If you're outsourcing Web 2.0

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contingency Plans Banking Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

Any company with substantial exposure to Brexit that hasn’t yet devised contingency plans to deal with a range of outcomes, including very bad ones, is about as far behind the curve as Britain’s current government seems to be right now.

Contingency Plans 8

Contingency Plans Planning Company Uncertainty 8