N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? At the risk of drawing the ire of corporate elitists, I submit to you that the dumber your business is, the better off you are.

Business Model 344

Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Gut instincts can only take you so far in life, and anyone who operates outside of a sound decisioning framework will eventually fall prey to an act of oversight, misinformation, misunderstanding, manipulation, impulsivity or some other negative influencing factor. They make bad decisions.

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Blog Analysis CEO Brand 416

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. At the start of the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, it was a catalog of minor operational and logistical problems that led journalists to start reporting on "the glitch Games."

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Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2011

Walmart's principal problems appear to be largely reputation-related: a phenomenon that has cost the company millions in wasted PR consulting fees and possibly billions in lost, potential market capitalization over the last decade. Most PR firms only offer cosmetic remedies to firefight reputation threats as they arise.

Engineering 14

Engineering PR How To Reputation 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

In the wake of its significant trading losses (now reportedly rising from $2 to $3 billion or more), JP Morgan can win back some of its lost reputation by transparently holding those responsible to account. Instead, the problems here involve, at a minimum, outsized losses and material harm to reputation.

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CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 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. One key to this partnership is identifying risk priorities—whether economic (e.g.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

.” The possibility of employee misconduct—the potential for behaviors or business practices that are illegal, unethical, or contrary to a firm’s stated values, policies, and procedures—is a form of risk just like liquidity risk or operational risk. Adverse selection.

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Company Banking Incentives Human Capital 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Still, top executives continue to stumble in the way they respond to an attack, magnifying and extending the damage both to their reputation and their customers. Executives today must operate under the assumption that they will experience a cyber incident that will require them to notify their customers, investors, and regulators.

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Execution Press Release Report Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

In sum: The Commission argues that the business case for "companies to tackle the growing pay gap" is to enhance employee engagement and productivity; to reduce reputational harm to particular firms; and to arrest plummeting general trust in business. What are the operational objectives which express those purposes?

Politics 14

Politics Execution Report Risk Management 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The immediate news coverage is focused on the size of financial penalties for the institutions, on the potential civil or criminal culpability of bank officials and on the reputational harm to both the bank and its senior officers. Boards Ethics Risk management' And that can stop needed control reform.

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Contingency : Nothing is without risk, and when you think something is without risk, that is when you’re most likely to end-up in trouble. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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Blog Innovation Brand Strategic Planning 413

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? How will we measure them, and what hurdles do we need to hit to be successful? Do you have the necessary resources (financial, technology, talent, infrastructure, etc.) to hit your objectives? Why should we make this investment?

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Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

On April 4 of this year, Dimon read a short article in the Wall Street Journal about a JPMorgan trader in London, Bruno Iksil, who was making massive bets that exposed the bank to high levels of risk. At a meeting on April 8, Drew assured Dimon and the operating committee of JPMorgan that the trades were being well managed and would work out.

Banking 9

Banking Kahneman Document Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

And although senior managers’ remuneration was tied to Contect’s overall sales and operating profits, the head office had relatively little control over the 30,000 projects the company had underway at any given time. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.” But we’re a global company.

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Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. This industry supports a number of intermediaries, such as investment bankers, exchange operators, auditors, lawyers, and crowd-funding platforms (such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo).

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Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8