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Annual Board Evaluations: A Gateway to Sustained Board Effectiveness

N2Growth Blog

One best practice is to utilize anonymous surveys or questionnaires, allowing board members to share their thoughts without fearing potential repercussions. Boards are critical in overseeing and guiding the company’s risk management framework, ensuring adequate measures are in place to identify, assess, and mitigate potential risks.

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November 2011 Edition - Strategy Execution Newsletter - On Managing Processes

Six Disciplines

I'm a consultant, and my clients could really benefit from Six Disciplines. RESULTS FROM LAST MONTH'S QUICKSTUDY SURVEY : Process Innovation. How well your organization manages risk has a profound effect on how consistent and predictable your results will be. SHOWCASING SIX DISCIPLINES CLIENTS.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

Faster innovation. Total Quality Management is customer-focused and strategy-directed. Commission customer and employee surveys. This includes repeating surveys to assure that you are making adequate progress. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Research shows they can be cut in half.

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New Supply Chain Jobs Are Emerging as AI Takes Hold

Harvard Business Review

And 92% of executives surveyed said supply chain workforces will be upskilled and enabled to interact and work with machines seamlessly. The industrial services giant equips its elevator technicians to consult subject-matter experts through Microsoft HoloLens, an augmented reality headset. Place your innovation bets.

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How CMOs Can Work with CIOs to Gain Customer Insight

Harvard Business Review

Gene Morphis, former CFO of CVS and David's Bridal suggests: "There is an interesting intersection between risk management and innovation that emerges in the CMO-CIO interface." It's up to the CEO to ensure that marketing and IT are on the same page in terms of both innovation goals and risk management.

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It’s Time for Boards to Cross the Digital Divide

Harvard Business Review

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.

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader. Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! Jennifer V.