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

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

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. These firms also had higher-rated processes for innovation. Director Recruitment and Skills.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. 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

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

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 9, 2014

Is there any aspect of your daily life and business that is not significantly affected by digital technology? Digital transformation is about a careful transition between the old and the new, balancing risk management, value creation and long-term sustainability, which are precisely the key roles of boards. Not likely.

Business Model 8

Business Model Technology Long-term Risk Management 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

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

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 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

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.

Team Building 284

Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

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 Escalating government demands.

Ethics 8

Ethics Technology Short-term Compliance 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. See my prior thoughts on the range of issues here and here.)

Risk Management 11

Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis Report 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An entire industry now exists to train us humans to be smarter in how we operate computers, and yet the number of cybersecurity incidents continues to rise. There is one area where more training would pay off: for CEOs and other senior managers — the people who are least likely to take training or take it seriously.

Training 9

Training CIO Chief Information Officer Information 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.” The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 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

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.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As one of the most serious industrial accidents in history, the Gulf explosion should be a great case study for corporate leaders across the globe who are trying to manage risk in hazardous activities involving complex technology. And, if they are not known, those lessons can't be learned.

Report 13

Report Policies Risk Management Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Executives today must operate under the assumption that they will experience a cyber incident that will require them to notify their customers, investors, and regulators. A massive breach is not an individual error or a technology failure — it’s an organizational breakdown that is the responsibility of the top executive.

Execution 8

Execution Press Release Report Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

election mean for businesses is a fact that’s getting too little attention, but that CEOs and business leaders will definitely need to adjust to: it’s gotten much harder to keep your company’s secrets. The 21st-Century CEO. Buried amid the furor of speculation about what results of the U.S. Insight Center.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage PR Information Fashion 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

We’ve got the latest technology. Not engaging in planning for future operations: So what are you gonna do about it? Examples: This company reflects the character of its CEO. The wise CEO is one who listens to others, surrounds himself-herself with smart people and fosters a spirit of teamwork. That’s life.

Budgeting 72

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 72

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This means there are too many ways that an attacker can take advantage of any part of the technology infrastructure in most companies to breach them or create harm. Large enterprises typically operate dozens of security products with growing headcount in all areas of their security organizations.

ROI 9

ROI Long-term Banking System 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

CEO Jamie Dimon consistently espouses the virtues of size and diversity. It must be led not by staff, but by business leaders who devote appropriate resources, hire outstanding people and embed the prevent, detect and respond activities deeply in business operations. Boards Ethics Risk management' trillion in assets ,$1.1

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Contingency : Nothing is without risk, and when you think something is without risk, that is when you’re most likely to end-up in trouble. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. link] Bill Wood Okay, I reposted your piece on CEO strategy direction.

Blog 413

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Company executives should recall the key lesson from the famous Johnson & Johnson response to the Tylenol scare in 1982 : CEO James Burke saw that the most important objective was to restore the confidence of customers and other critical stakeholders, and moved aggressively to do that. Crisis management Leadership Risk management'

Crisis 8

Crisis How To Crisis Management Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

The Future of Operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Michael Power of the London School of Economics describes the resulting explosion of bureaucracy as “the risk management of everything.” So I wrote to the CEO and explained what had happened. Insight Center.

Process 8

Process Banking Compliance Bureaucracy 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 30, 2014

This can be done at the application level (piecemeal and less secure) or at the operating system level (total and more secure). Omer Eiferman is Cellrox ’s CEO. Omer has served in a variety of marketing, development and product management roles in technology companies. About the Author.

Risk Management 63

Risk Management Competitive Advantage Tactics Download 63

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

It can often seem like digital technology is making every aspect of business move at warp speed. But what about the risks? Doesn’t high speed carry the inherent risk of loss of control? As Andy Singleton, CEO at Assembla , explained to me, continuous deployment can be both cheaper and lower risk. Not necessarily.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Development Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

In addition, success will often depend on technological and other advancements, the route to which may not be apparent. At Microsoft, for example, the Office and Windows operations have tended to suffocate innovations over the past few decades. It's easy to kill an innovation project.

Kahneman 15

Kahneman Tversky Company Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Just 41% of FOB directors said their boards had an effective CEO succession planning process (vs. Perhaps the most telling finding, however, was that 63% of FOB directors said CEO succession was not discussed regularly at the board level. Succession. 56% of non-FOB directors). The good news is this can be fixed.

FOB 8

FOB Diversity Talent Management How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2017

Their operations involve partnerships, specializations, and supply chains. Rather than thinking of a clandestine hacker working out of a basement, you will be better served to picture a sophisticated, professional operation working out of an office tower. Integrate email security into your organization’s risk management program.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain System CFO Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican. Meanwhile, Democrats place greater importance on technology expertise and risk management.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8