N2Growth Blog

MAY 31, 2017

Have you identified all the risks here, and what are your contingency plans should things not progress as expected? Rather than prioritize by exclusion, use systems, processes, etc., How does this add value to our core mission? Help me connect the dots on this one – why will this take us where we want to go?

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Our healthcare system is already dealing with an enormous load of cases in a lot of states. The surge will flood our medical systems, create significant supply interruptions, and hit sectors like travel and hospitality. Just think of what might happen when the novel strains overtake the old ones, at some point doubling every two weeks.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 3, 2014

The trauma brought about by such change happens every day to countless people, people without contingency plans, or any idea how they are going to cope with what has happened to them. And yet we do, cope I mean, under many conditions and through many challenges.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2019

Sometimes they’ll just steal information, sometimes they’ll deliberately try to malign your system. Contingency plans are necessary to sidestep such issues. Some programs could be compatible with either OS (Operating System), most won’t. This can happen from the outside or inside.

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Technology Contingency Plans Gordon Software 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Tens of billions of connected sensors are being embedded in everything ranging from industrial robots and safety systems to self-driving cars and refrigerators. In addition, they need the ability to switch to manually controlled environments in case artificially intelligent systems have to be shut down and to recall faulty smart products.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

As regional medical director of emergency medicine for the Houston Methodist Hospital System, one of us (Neil) has been on the front lines of the medical response. All health systems have contingency plans and run drills for emergencies like a hurricane.

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Health Care Crisis Contingency Plans Management 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

We believe the peso has further to fall but timing is difficult to predict, so if this region is vital to your business, contingency planning is the order of the day. The excessive bad debt in China’s shadow banking system, however, could lead to a real crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

If the end game is preventing something bad from happening, companies typically waste time and money on futile attempts to build an impenetrable wall of systems. We live in a world where more and more products are connected to the internet — not just computers and phones, but home appliances, alarm systems, and garage door openers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

A doctor’s medical toolbox and supply of best-practice guidelines, ample as they are, do not address a patient’s fears, grief over a diagnosis, practical issues of access to care, or reliability of their social support system. We can create more space for active listening. Patients need and deserve much more.

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Balanced Scorecard Contingency Plans Active Listening Guidelines 11

Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

They were men and women who were at the very top of their leadership game, proven naval leaders who were hand-selected to lead naval commands from around the globe, including the world’s most lethal and sophisticated weapons systems – fighter squadrons, aircraft carriers, submarines, and warships.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

.” Two people respond to that comment, while a third member subtly segues to another topic saying, “I’m not concerned about the financials, it’s our poor contingency planning that is slowing our response.” You and Your Team Series. The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track.

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Supply Chain Contingency Plans How To Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

A terrorist incident, a breakdown of the London rail system, power blackouts, volcanic ash clouds , flooding, an outbreak of infectious disease—the London organizing committee (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spent years thinking about every scenario they could imagine.

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Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2012

Whether submitting a form, clicking to load a video, or trying to go to the next page in an article, a person's action should be immediately followed by the system's reaction — a clear notification that a trigger occurred. No one and nothing can prevent all errors, so you're going to need a contingency plan.

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Construction Contingency Plans Bottom-up Follow-up 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The industry breakdowns were determined using eight major sectors (similar to those in the Global Industry Classification Standard system): Consumer Discretionary (e.g., Additional responses from this second survey wave were predominantly concentrated in the Middle East, Asia, and Western Europe.

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Telecommunications Health Care Contingency Plans Biotechnology 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 29, 2020

While you can’t completely insulate yourself from every single eventuality, there are steps you can take to ensure that you have the right insight and contingency plans in place should the worst happen. Get Protected Against Cyber Attacks. One of the biggest threats to small businesses is cyber-security.

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Insurance Contingency Plans Norton Crisis 65

You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 20, 2009

The trauma brought about by such change happens every day to countless people, people without contingency plans, or any idea how they are going to cope with what has happened to them. And yet we do, cope I mean, under many conditions and through many challenges.

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Performance Review Blog Learning-by-Doing Contingency Plans 43

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

A systemic shock cutting across industries and borders, Brexit poses significant strategic challenges for business leaders as they navigate the fallout. Design contingency plans and reflect any insights in your strategies for growth, geographical footprint, global supply chain, and risk management. Run scenarios.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Our Director of Information Systems became a technological tactician who worked out a plan in record time to allow us work remotely in the event that fighting encroached on our offices. To manage a crisis, the leadership team must function at its highest capacity. Each person on my team had different skill sets and personalities.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2016

Piloting, prototyping, and contingency planning before a change can save weeks or even years of rework. For example, a major bank tried to do a technological transition of their system without sufficient pre-testing. The system crashed and customers didn’t have access to their accounts for three days.

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After Action Review Rogers Contingency Plans Leadership 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The strategy required a massive capital investment in a nationwide system of distribution centers with robotic stock-picking equipment. In a world where the best laid plans can go awry, companies that react quickly and effectively come out on top. Rigorous contingency planning is as important as disciplined action planning.

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Rapid BI

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Communication within any organization is like the human circulation system, it serves as a channel or network that links parts of the organization together. Having a dedicated roles means that preparations can be made for disaster or contingency management and the appropriate communications required. So what is Internal communications?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The purported Iranian attacks are more disruptive; less exercises in active espionage than pokes, prods and probes to determine exploitable systems weaknesses. to Amazon Web Services and/or other cloud providers, you need to know their security protocols and contingency plans have intensified to mission-critical.

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Supply Chain Contingency Plans Banking Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

There is no question that China poses unique challenges to the trading system that the American government must address. After all, the United States has long pushed the world to accept a system where protection arises after a careful government investigation into a trading partner’s adherence to globally-accepted rules.

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Strategy Supply Chain Contingency Plans Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Top leaders tend to focus more on status updates than on contingency planning. Events like the three we highlight above often precipitate global shocks to currencies, financial systems, and commodities, causing serious disruption to business plans. miragec/Getty Images. growth in real GDP.

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