Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Good intentions and political correctness are not enough. It is good business to recognize opportunities for practice development. There are many good reasons why diversity relates to your livelihood: Embracing diversity is politically correct. Look at the issues and how they affect the total person. Actions are always required.

Diversity 86

Diversity Budgeting Open-book Risk Management 86

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity. These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics.

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. By developing a qualitative and quantitative filtering mechanism for your decisioning process you can make better decisions in a shorter period of time. Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk.

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Blog Analysis CEO Brand 416

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? Who are your strongest leaders and how are you developing them to handle more responsibility? How will we measure them, and what hurdles do we need to hit to be successful? to hit your objectives? Why should we make this investment?

Team Building 284

Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

And while some people patrol the boundary between church and state by maintaining separate social media profiles for their personal and professional lives, many of us thrive on the holistic perspectives and relationships that can develop when people tweet, blog or Facebook as their own true selves, 24/7.

Risk Management 8

Risk Management Media Price Management 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Criticizing others may be cloaked as a subtle or even polite dialog. We can dispense with all that employee training and professional development. Some people and organizations go to great extremes to place spins, rationalize or save face. Often, sweeping generalizations involve making far-fetched excuses or scapegoating someone else.

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Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 74

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Business development. “Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.” They don’t have a clearly unique product, but instead rally behind ideas that are not fully developed. Employees are not empowered to make decisions or take risks.

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Strategy P&L Strategic Planning Tactics 58

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Developed during World War II, CARVER (then one letter shorter and known as CARVE) was originally used by analysts to determine where bomber pilots could most effectively drop their munitions on enemy targets. (One ” 5 – Very high economic, political, or social impact on the organization. 3 – Moderate impact.

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Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

She must also have the experience and capability to address business-in-society issues—legislation, regulation, investigation, enforcement and litigation — that now create risk and opportunity in all dimensions of corporate activity. Recent global developments underscore the importance of these societal issues.

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CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

How can leaders develop a specific view of the industry- and firm-level implications? Political process. ” From the map, combine various values to develop multiple scenarios. by combining political uncertainty with lower volatility). What are the first-response imperatives for corporate leaders? For example, a U.S.

Uncertainty 9

Uncertainty Short-term Supply Chain Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Yes, political hacktivists brag about Web pages defaced and customer information released over the Internet, but companies rarely reveal the attacks that result in the loss of valuable intellectual property — business plans, proprietary technologies or fraudulent payments.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Risk Management Hedge Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2014

Concerns about political risk have heightened in the light of tit-for-tat sanctions between Russia and the West. Restrictions on the ability of Russian banks to sell financial instruments were imposed, as were bans on selling technology that would help Russia develop its vast energy reserves. The details suggest not.

Banking 8

Banking Short-term Politics Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Commentators and researchers have focused on the crucial role of the CEO in leading effective corporate action to promote high performance, high integrity , and sound risk management. What’s radically changed in recent years is complexity.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

It is fascinating, however, that the solutions we’ve developed have also turned out to be effective in fighting other threats to safety and wellbeing – among them, criminal networks and bacterial infection. Information & technology Knowledge management Risk management'

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Information Technology Analysis Information Knowledge Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

Today''s cyber-issues involve systemic social, economic, organizational, and political components. These types of cyber-issues must be addressed not only with technological solutions, but also on the social, political, and policy levels. Why Your CEO Is a Security Risk. This task is more challenging than it sounds.

Game Theory 8

Game Theory Incentives Diversity System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Recent incidents with Japan and the air defense identification zone resulted in a very significant US response: trips by Secretary Hagel, President Obama, announcements on the US Defense Treaty pertaining to the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands issue – ultimately leading to the US and Japan developing a much closer relationship.

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Long-term Politics Globalization Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If the customers haven’t changed much, point to changes in the competitive environment that make your strategy less sound today than it was when it was developed. Mine societal, economic, political, regulatory, and technological trends to identify any external changes that necessitate a shift in your strategy.

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Due Diligence Proposal Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Examining language as an indicator of behavior began decades ago and was first used extensively in the political sphere, supported by the seminal work of Margaret G. This practice of political psychology, known as psychological content analysis or remote assessment, has its roots in psychological coding of leaders.

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Forrester Shaw Absenteeism Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

The innovation roadmap was hauled out and reviewed less in the spotlight of global opportunities than the cold reflection of domestic politics. ” That’s not cynicism; that’s savvy risk management. The late James Buchanan , the Nobelist father of Public Choice, described this as “politics without romance.”

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Disruptive Innovation Levitt Tourism Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

In 2014, global political volatility reached an intensity not seen since the end of the Cold War. What are the biggest political and economic risks heading into the year ahead? Europe is at the top of your risk list for 2015. You notice it’s the politics of Europe, not the economics of Europe. Iran and Syria.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Politics Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Chalk it up to psychology and organizational politics, which cause us to oversimplify and to draw incorrect or incomplete conclusions. The real reasons for conflict are a lot harder to raise — and resolve — because they are likely to be complex, nuanced, and politically sensitive. So might any of us.

Incentives 13

Incentives Human Resources Short-term Self-aware 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. However, companies should stay clear of sectors with high levels of political interference, such as mining.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There’s no doubt that our world faces complex challenges, from a warming climate to violent uprisings to political instability to outbreaks of disease. For instance, recently my fellow data scientists and I developed algorithms that accurately predicted the first cholera outbreak in 130 years. Risk management Technology'

Uncertainty 9

Uncertainty GDP System Risk Management 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There’s no doubt that our world faces complex challenges, from a warming climate to violent uprisings to political instability to outbreaks of disease. For instance, recently my fellow data scientists and I developed algorithms that accurately predicted the first cholera outbreak in 130 years. Risk management Technology'

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Uncertainty GDP System Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

Each of them faces too many complex development challenges at home to accept more costs and risks abroad. Add its position at the crossroads of Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union, and Turkey has a range of political and commercial options. Not all pivot states are developing countries.

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Tourism Crisis Globalization Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

To do that, all the parties that have a stake in disruptions — members of supply chains, insurers, governments, and markets — should proactively develop a responsiveness system that would be able to predict different types and levels of supply-chain disasters. Government incentives are necessary.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Transportation Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

Having lived in Mexico in the wake of its 1994 crisis and studied its politics , I just saw the absence of any invisible hand as a practical fact. Finally, in 1954, Kenneth Arrow, at Stanford, and Gerard Debreu, at the Cowles Commission at Yale, developed the canonical "general-equilibrium" model , for which they later won the Nobel Prize.

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Crisis Decentralization Marketing Engineering 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

This is even more critical for an organization like NASA that has many high-risk projects and an ever-shrinking budget; Have active executive project sponsors; and. Maintain a constant focus on talent development for their teams and, in particular, their project leaders. Continuing Talent Development.

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Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

One, showing the development of football rules and safety equipment through the decades , has been running during games for a while. This phrase has become popular lately in American politics (although it may have originated in the United Kingdom , with reference to rugby). In business, for example, the current norm allows U.S.

Sports 8

Sports Entrepreneur Politics Reference 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

This is even more critical for an organization like NASA that has many high-risk projects and an ever-shrinking budget; Have active executive project sponsors; and. Maintain a constant focus on talent development for their teams and, in particular, their project leaders. Continuing Talent Development.

Project 13

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Experience: Buyers use a solution, increasingly in pilots or proof of concepts, and develop perceptions about its value based on that usage. Engage: Buyers initiate further contact with providers (or accept proposals from providers) to get help in moving toward a purchase decision.

B2B 8

B2B AIDA AIDAS Disintermediation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Everyone we spoke to in the company was polite, helpful, and increasingly apologetic. If you are a business leader, you don’t want to see any of these developments occur. The big banks had well-intentioned formal processes for risk management, but no one was really, genuinely accountable for the risks they took.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Chief Financial Officer Delegation Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The answer is the sharp and unexpected rise of existential risk. Every half century or so, the risk assumptions underlying our economic, social and political foundations change dramatically. For a number of reasons, the size, complexity scale and symmetry of risk are vastly different in 2011 than 1991.

Uncertainty 13

Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Droughts and floods also enter the risk picture for any company dependent on an agricultural supply chain. Pepsico, for instance, recently developed its sustainable agriculture program at least partly in response to the challenges of climate change. And political stalemate is not an excuse for private sector inaction.

Insurance 8

Insurance Supply Chain Benchmarking Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Look no further than the recent protests against the completion of the Keystone and the Dakota Access pipelines , or the opposition that stopped the development of the Cape Wind Associates’ offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound. Conflicts like these with local communities are not only divisive, they are expensive.

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Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 9