N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations.

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Strategy Driven

MARCH 12, 2020

BPD is important for endless reasons including; Proper Alignment of Operations with Business Strategy: To change or modify the business strategy usually requires improving multiple operations being performed by different people involved in a business. Augments Operational Effectiveness: ? Importance of Business Process Design.

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Process Document BPR Six Sigma 66

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2018

A product or service possesses quality if it helps someone and enjoys a sustainable market.”. With 29 years of hindsight, I now realize I was enticed by Toyota’s selective focus on what I refer to as Contextual Excellence more so than the exclusive Compliance Excellence of many of its competitors. Edwards Deming . Phillip Crosby.

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Deming Compliance System Engineering 31

Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2016

Augment the client’s Search Engine Marketing (SEM) efforts. By redirecting a keyword-rich domain to your website, or by outright transitioning to a more keyword-rich domain, brands can significantly improve their search engine rankings even in the most competitive fields, like law. When personal injury attorney Eric S.

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Audience Brand Content Policies 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. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2019

If you’re spending too many of them attempting to manage your whole operation and too few of them doing the creative thinking and growth-oriented work required to take your business further, you need to think about outsourcing. Content Marketing. Otherwise known as blogging, content marketing is taking the SME word by storm.

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Outsourcing Compliance Content Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Cleaning up data downstream is expensive and not scalable, because data is a byproduct of business processes and operations like marketing, sales, plant operations, and so on. This requires close collaboration with the operating units and IT. Good data practices are good for compliance.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

1) Believe in your power to make markets efficient — but abandon the efficient market dogma. The global financial markets are an extraordinary information processing engine. Assuming the market is perfectly efficient, it appears, merely damns it to inefficiency.

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Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

billion people, the Chinese consumer market is a tempting target for Western technology companies. The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. With over 1.3

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Ethics Technology Short-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Large decreases in costs by eliminating the waste of fully developing features that fail in the market. A team typically consists of three to seven people who have strong software engineering, product management, testing, and marketing skills. Operations in a Connected World. But when a product is delivered online (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. Most process engineering starts out as a project," Coco explained. "If administration, policies, and compliance (which can be a brake on changes in processes).

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Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

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. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

The EU’s human rights-centered views have been influencing global standards and privacy practices in the Middle East for decades, and businesses have adapted to more restrictive markets, like China and North Korea , and thrived. To respond to these changes and make privacy work for profit, consider: A new market for privacy services.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Leaders in the study reported having to implement staff reduction targets, dispose of big businesses in major markets, and lead mergers and acquisitions.

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Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

It came by great gas mileage on the back of a scam: The car’s supposedly low emissions were fraud — perpetrated by VW engineers who designed the car’s software to lower emissions during testing, only to let them bump back up in real life use. Now we know that vehicle wasn’t green.

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PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

But our work with a community of senior executives in the Bay Area suggests that today’s market leaders are following the advice of Yogi Berra: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” The market for cardless payments is growing rapidly, posing a threat to Visa’s core business. Size and speed.

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Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Going green is no longer a compliance issue; it is now a business mandate. But there is also a bottom line argument: HBSC estimates that the global market for climate change solutions will grow to $2.2 So the idea that sustainability is merely an issue of compliance with EPA regulations has faded. trillion by 2020.

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Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. Audit software and human monitors were soon installed to assure compliance. That was the challenge.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Our stakeholder-based strategy rests on the following key pillars: People: The human factor plays a central role in our operations, and thus our business growth must be tied to the growth of our people. By competing on products, we respond to the market.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

With its assistance, boards can make sense of all the market, customer, and competitor data at their disposal — both historical and current — and analyze it with greater rigor. According to Ray Kurzweil, a director of engineering at Google, robots won’t become more clever than humans until 2029.

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Scenario Planning Tools Technology Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? Would you communicate with your compliance department that way? Also, today, 30% of new hires are non-Japanese, and 50% of new engineers are non-Japanese.

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Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g., The industry breakout was done using eight major sectors (similar to those in the Global Industry Classification Standard system): Consumer Discretionary (e.g.,

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Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

As most executive teams look at their global sales and growth rates, they see a massive — and rapid — shift towards new markets, like Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe. They mutter about quality, compliance and competence. The rise of the rest", Fareed Zakaria's phrase, is upon us. Many local men don't like hearing that.

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Diversity Globalization Short-term Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

So instead of creating another pill dispenser, it launched a compliance-enhancing system. Operations. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase. In IoT businesses, sales departments often struggle to determine how to best take a combined product and service to market.

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Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. Each branch makes its own loan decisions, sets its own pricing on loans and deposits, controls its own marketing budget, runs its own website (on a shared platform), and serves all customer segments — from individuals to multinationals — within its catchment area.

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Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Top 10 Operational Impacts of the GDPR (IAPP). GDPR also bears more than a hint of the kind of protectionism that has featured prominently in EU technology policy since the 2015 release of the plan for a “Digital Single Market,” including recent announcements of new taxes for U.S.-based Full Text of the Regulations.

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Advertising Cost Business Model Information 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Fifty-eight percent of patients referred to Virginia Mason, our medical center in Seattle, for back surgery would be more appropriately treated without an operation. In the language of systems engineering, the transaction is “mistake-proofed.” Electronic medical records can help correct these systemic defects.

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Health Care Innovation Creativity Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

In the era of rampant security attacks and strict compliance mandates, without encryption, we’d be failing. As it is written, the legislation would essentially force companies to engineer defects into the their security systems. market accounts for more than $1 trillion.). Carbonite is far from alone. jurisdiction.

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Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

A colleague who doesn’t listen can also “have very negative consequences from an operational standpoint — there are often a lot of mistakes because projects don’t get executed correctly.” Today Ash provides leadership development for engineers. ” So it’s imperative to address the issue.

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How To Follow-up Norton Case Study 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Uber trade secrecy trial , Judge Aslup reminded the parties of this key distinction between actual secrets and general know-how: “Is an engineer supposed to get a frontal lobotomy before they go on to the next job?” However, judges are rightly skeptical. In the ongoing Waymo v. ” Alsup asked.

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Definition Policies Compliance Information 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2018

There, it became clear to me that the modern sustainability agenda — beyond regulatory compliance — is becoming critical to this sector, with both risks and opportunities stemming from environmental and social pressures. This is part of the toolkit of maintaining their “license to operate.”

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