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Board Governance Excellence: The Pinnacle of Organizational Success

N2Growth Blog

It’s the board’s prerogative to chart a strategic course, oversee the operational ambit, and instill a culture of accountability—morphing it into a cornerstone of organizational governance. It orchestrates the operational rhythm, supervises decision-making, and enforces accountability across the hierarchy.

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William Miller on Business Model Innovation

Rajesh Setty

I have known Dr. William Miller (co-founder of Value Centered Innovation ) for a number of years and every conversation with him on business model innovation and beyond has been delightful and insightful. WM: No business is an island, separate and independent from the society it operates in. Now, to the interview.

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The Case for Corporate Disobedience

Harvard Business Review

If your company puts you in charge of developing a foreign market or a new line of business, your challenges are in many ways similar to those facing a startup. But as Steve Blank, Henry Chesbrough, and others have pointed out , that advantage is offset by the daunting fact that corporate innovators have to fight a war on two fronts.

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. But I think the interesting part comes when they start to see it as an opportunity for innovations that are financially beneficial as well as socially beneficial.

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Integrating Maintenance of Board Certification and Health Systems’ Quality-Improvement Programs

Harvard Business Review

Develop standards for QIPs. Develop standards for meaningful participation by individual physicians. These standards were developed in partnership with the Mayo Clinic Quality Academy, which oversees teaching, training, coaching, and supporting Mayo’s 60,000 staff to improve patient outcomes, safety, and service.

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Are Uber and Facebook Turning Users into Lobbyists?

Harvard Business Review

If a user agreed to the noble goal of free connectivity for their fellow citizens, they were directed to tell their Member of Parliament to support Facebook’s developing world program: Internet.org seeks to connect billions of people in the developing world to the internet. Rinse and repeat, over and over.