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Annual Board Evaluations: A Gateway to Sustained Board Effectiveness

N2Growth Blog

Regular board evaluations and assessments are vital tools in assessing the effectiveness and performance of individuals and the collective body of the board, and they are instrumental in promoting continuous improvement in board governance practices.

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How Leading Consultancies Can Better Manage AI Risk

Harvard Business Review

In an age when AI-powered tools are reshaping industries, consultancies are embracing the potential of AI copilots to revolutionize their services. The answers lie in collaborative initiatives, much like Big Tech’s voluntary AI commitments, which offer a roadmap for consultancies to harness AI’s potential while ensuring ethical conduct.

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We Shouldn’t Always Need a “Business Case” to Do the Right Thing

Harvard Business Review

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Happily fading from memory is the cliché that ethics and compliance teams effectively constitute a “business prevention department.”

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The Risks of Empowering “Citizen Data Scientists”

Harvard Business Review

New tools are making it easier for anyone to use AI. Here’s how to make sure employees are doing so responsibly.

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Why We Need to Audit Algorithms

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, we see many succumbing to what Microsoft’s Kate Crawford calls “ data fundamentalism ” — the notion that massive datasets are repositories that yield reliable and objective truths, if only we can extract them using machine learning tools. A more nuanced view is needed.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

industries, and a review of hundreds of academic studies on the psychology of human performance, shows that most leaders and organizations tend to focus on just one type of performance. These stats were reviewed by managers every week. Before, tricky problems would be redirected to a risk manager.

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New Supply Chain Jobs Are Emerging as AI Takes Hold

Harvard Business Review

Companies are cutting supply chain complexity and accelerating responsiveness using the tools of artificial intelligence. Through AI, machine learning, robotics, and advanced analytics, firms are augmenting knowledge-intensive areas such as supply chain planning, customer order management, and inventory tracking. alashi/Getty Images.