N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Engineering and creating sustainable advantage is the focus of the new paradigm for strategy management, detailing how the intersection of intelligence and innovation come together to deliver and sustain superior financial performance and value creation. For most organizations, cross silo cooperation is an unnatural act.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

In this environment of constant change, I often hear that we should be agile. Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. Navigate through Change. “Agile organizations treat disruption and adversity as opportunities.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Time management and “just in time” concepts are applied. Legal compliance and precautions plan is annually updated, with measurable goals. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Yet managers continue to follow Taylor’s “hard” approach — creating new structures, processes, and systems — when they need to address a management challenge. Hence, the introduction of, say, a risk management team or a compliance unit or an innovation czar. We are living in an age of mounting complexity.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

But CEOs serious about confronting autonomy opportunity and risk should consider four proven organizational options. The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. McKinsey, Bain, and BCG are the management models here.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

Cybersecurity isn''t just about compliance with laws and regulation — it''s about guarding businesses from the increasing dangers of persistent threats. As importantly, an effective cybersecurity framework has to overcome barriers to continued economic growth — creating an environment that protects and nurtures innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Reliability through compliance. radical innovation); Investments in initiatives whose benefits are contingent on everybody’s participation (e.g., knowledge management and talent management); Activities that involve cross-unit arbitration, i.e. weighing alternatives and setting priorities (e.g., brands and capital).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

But we also identified notable differences: namely a greater percentage of FOB than non-FOB directors viewed innovation as their top challenge, and FOB directors were also more concerned than their non-FOB counterparts about the rising cost of materials and commodities, levels of debt and supply chain risk.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

The Risks and Rewards of AI. The problem is not that these innovative technologies don’t work; it’s that users will inadvertently make choices and take chances that undermine colleagues and customers. Smarter algorithms require smarter risk management. Insight Center. Sponsored by SAS.

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