Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

She was the model for executive assistants and office managers everywhere. The CEO is made stronger with a good C-suite team. Back characters on TV shows included restaurant and bar operators, where the stars went top relax. A host of people make the CEO look good. Ed McMahon was TV’s premier second banana.

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Rogers Henderson Mentor Learning-by-Doing 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Firefighting operations continued for two days. PG&E could still have conducted intelligent risk management in the interest of its own shareholders. • First, the process risk tracked by metrics such as organizational tolerance for poor clarity in roles, accountability, transparency and limited depth of analysis.

Risk Management 11

Risk Management Management Supply Chain Metrics 11

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Previous to our technological advancements, the only way businesses could manage their multiple consumer platforms, numerous transactional tasks, and recover from data emergencies was to outsource to a variety of vendors. Richard Milam is the president and CEO of EnableSoft. Engage Customers. About the Author.

Strategy 50

Strategy Outsourcing Process Technology 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. CEO acumen on business-in-society issues is thus imperative in addressing fundamental corporate issues, from business strategy to compliance to ethical standards to risk management.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. At StrategyDriven, we’re proud to be working with industry leaders to address these challenges and adapt their organizations so they continue to operate safely, reliably, and efficiently.”.

Chief Executive Officer 50

Chief Executive Officer Execution Operations Asset Management 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Objective analysis of how the organization has operated to date. Assets are adequately valued and managed. The Big Picture.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Guest post by Dave Yarin: It was April 2010, and a Fortune 500 CEO would utter one of the most ill advised yet memorable lines in corporate history. 1 He had succeeded John Browne in 2007 as CEO following Browne''s prostitution and perjury scandal, along with leaving BP with a checkered safety record.

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CEO Compliance Organization Report 240

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

For the past several years, Wells Fargo has been run by MBAs, while Bank of America’s CEO since 2010, Brian Moynihan, has a law degree from Notre Dame. Might this difference in education influence how CEOs behave when it comes to setting a course and trimming corporate sails? One possibility is the tone at the top.

CEO 8

CEO Accrual Accounting Pharmaceuticals Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

There are a variety of places where corporations and boards look for potential CEOs, but the leagues of management consulting generally isn’t one of them. So why should a company consider hiring a management consultant to be their CEO? Did you find any characteristics that set effective consultants-to-CEOs apart?

Consultative 9

Consultative CEO Management Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

More recently, CARVER has converted a new community of believers in the business world, including CEOs, financial analysts, and risk management planners, not to mention any number of Fortune 500 security directors. The CSO would rank Criticality like this: 5 – Loss of the pipeline would stop operations.

Tools 12

Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

But for all the effort to structure legal and economic issues after a disaster occurs, it is far, far better to address critical operational issues — relating to safety culture, process and management — to prevent one. In this section (at p.181),

CEO 8

CEO Outsourcing Supply Chain Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

CEOs are worrying about risky behavior by employees at the front lines of the business. But how can the CEO influence far-flung staff to do the right thing consistently? But how can the CEO influence far-flung staff to do the right thing consistently? Then, you have to be visible and consistent in holding managers accountable.

Risk Management 10

Risk Management Insurance Incentives Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

In an uncertain and volatile world, risk management — a previously unsexy subject for many managers who created annual updates or reviews of their company's risk management plans — is now a front-burner issue for many. This assumption may be fundamentally flawed.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These threats change the risk management calculus of firms hoping to succeed in a more turbulent world. Owning up to our own behavioral biases is a worthwhile starting point to discussing the problem of managing infrequent, severe events. Start-ups are particularly at risk today because of both their size and age.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 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. Also, the GC now often leads units beyond the legal department, such as public affairs, taxes, and environment. Compliance.

CFO 8

CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

In contrast, 70% of respondents think their boards have effective processes for staying current on the company; 69% for compliance; 66% for financial planning; and 55% for risk management — although we should note that managing risks is a crucial consideration when pursuing innovation.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. This all presents CEOs with a tough dilemma. Model 1: Virtual operator. Model 2: Asset capacity pooling.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

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. Holding people to account for these and related issues is an essential element of a broad approach to risk management inside financial services (and industrial) firms.

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CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2011

Collectively known as "operational risks", these latter costs are substantial yet, if managed properly, could significantly, reduce the bottom line with few negative side effects. For example, estimates by Mercer and others indicate that losses just for the major risks (e.g., employee accidents, office theft, etc.)

Cost 15

Cost Metrics SWOT Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

That’s why cybersecurity efforts have to focus on risk management , not risk mitigation. Our findings point to steps that security executives and other cybersecurity professionals can take to work around CEOs’ human biases and motivate decision makers to invest more in cyber infrastructure.

Execution 8

Execution ROI Metrics CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2011

Indeed, a 2006 campaign by the company's PR firm only made matters worse until Lee Scott, the previous CEO, temporarily turned things around. In my opinion, the following redress is a shortlist of measures Walmart managers might undertake to begin accomplishing this feat: Incorporate reputation risk management into the corporate strategy.

Engineering 14

Engineering PR How To Reputation 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

Managing risks — especially the hard-to-pin-down, moving-target risks that any financial trading operation has to cope with — inevitably involves arguing. The words "risk management" usually evokes less subjective, more data-driven pursuits. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

Management 10

Management Risk Management Competitive Intelligence Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

The pay for CEOs is many multiples of the companies' average pay today — e.g. 63 times at BP and 74 times at Barclays (four or five times greater than 30 years ago). CEOs may be as much as 300 times the average pay today. What are the operational objectives which express those purposes? The multiple for U.S.

Politics 14

Politics Execution Report Risk Management 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Charismatic CEOs enjoy leading and inspiring people, so they don’t like delegating critical business decisions to smart algorithms. At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail. Whether you like it or not, your success as a CEO will be largely tied to your team building ability. Great CEOs realize the importance of being consistently, purposefully and intensely engaged with their CXOs.

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Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2013

One of the dumbest corporate governance issues is whether to split the roles of Board Chair and CEO. That debate is now playing out on the front pages of business sections (print and online) as shareholders will decide next week in a nonbinding vote whether to take the chairman of the board title away from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon.

CEO 8

CEO Objective Operations Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

General Mills’ CEO recently blamed the winter for less-than-expected earnings , saying that “severe winter weather…disrupted plant operations and logistics…We lost 62 days of production…which hasn’t happened in decades. It might have actually generated increased revenue as well, if it meant operating while competitors couldn’t.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

It''s a lawyerly, exhaustive, exhausting rundown of all the things that could possibly weigh on the earnings of a giant global bank, from regulatory changes to loans going bad to a liquidity crisis to the possibility that "one or more of its employees causes a significant operational breakdown or failure." Heineman, Jr.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis CEO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

To get management’s attention, I issued a statement declaring that “these four preventable workplace deaths and the very serious hazards we uncovered at this facility are evidence of a failed safety program.” CEO Ellen Kullman came to see me and promised a top to bottom review of the DuPont safety program.

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Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

having sacrificed customer intimacy for increased operational excellence gains through widespread cost cutting, are well documented. Organizations worry about fine-tuning their operations to handle the typical situations. The danger is that their management approaches cannot sense or respond to shocks. Not anymore.".

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. 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

JULY 9, 2014

One possible reason is that the financial crisis and the recessionary period that followed have driven corporations to skew their board appointments towards including more risk management and conventional corporate experience, at the expense of more tech-savvy and digital knowledge. Finding the right tempo is an art form.

Business Model 8

Business Model Technology Long-term Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Among their trophies in 2014 was a complete housecleaning at Darden Restaurants, the largest operator of full-service restaurants in the U.S. To the contrary, said Vanguard CEO William McNabb , this is “precisely why we care so much about good governance.” Activist investors waged a record number of campaigns against U.S.

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Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Multiple conversations about cyber risks are happening across a multitude of divisions in isolation. At the same time, members of the C-suite are measuring their potential impact using different metrics — financial, regulatory, technical, operational — leading to conflicting assessments.

Metrics 8

Metrics CIO Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 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 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. See my prior thoughts on the range of issues here and here.)

Risk Management 10

Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis Report 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Their failure to choose the right CEO and to provide appropriate oversight on core risks and opportunities has, in my view, reflected a broad failure of the corporate governance movement and its reliance on directors to effectively to oversee the corporation and its business leaders. environmental, health and safety laws]).

Corporate Accountability 8

Corporate Accountability CEO Long-term Risk Management 8