Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. About the Author.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk. Decisioning at the information level affords a higher degree of risk management, but are still not as safe as those decisions based upon actionable knowledge. Great post and very insightful blog!

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Blog Analysis CEO Brand 416

Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2018

People may not be able to bypass the electronic systems, but it only takes a power failure to short circuit the whole thing. Financial documents should only be accessed by the proper finance teams at all times. This is why manual locks are so important, and double-locking the place isn’t going to be over the top. Employee Screening.

Tips 50

Tips Document System Information 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

By Focusing on Resilient Risk Management Ebola Battlers Can Learn from Venice's Response to Black Death NPR Every now and then, a story comes along that makes us editors say, "Why didn''t we think of that?" This all comes down to what the article’s authors call resilient risk management.

Management 9

Management Risk Management Finance Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Businesses are constantly experimenting with new ways to use artificial intelligence for better risk management and faster, more responsive fraud detection — and even to predict and prevent crimes. So how are leading-edge companies evaluating the benefits and risks of rapidly evolving AI crime-fighting and risk management?

Banking 8

Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 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.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

For example, the French global energy player ENGIE recently tilted its primary dimension from product (such as power, services, and infrastructure) toward region in order to better serve its clients in the territories in which it operates. When a company reorganizes, it’s often because the strategy has also changed.

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Organization P&L Report Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2012

These announcements are important developments in showing how financial service firms (as well as other companies) can use voluntary adopted compensation recovery policies to discourage bad behavior and excessive risk-taking. But, three critical elements of full transparency are missing from today's JPM announcement.

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CIO Risk Management Policies Reputation 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The most painful board conversations that I hear about machine learning revolve around how much power and authority super-smart software should have. These organizations are fully committed to letting algorithmic autonomy take the enterprise to new frontiers of innovation, profitability, and risk. That’s hard.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I often observe ego centered conflicts among senior executives, which turn into a competition for turf, budget, power, influence, control, and ultimately survival. I read a great post yesterday by Dan Rockwell ( @LeadershipFreak ) in which he asked: &# what’s the most powerful question of all?&# to hit your objectives?

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Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Ageas contributes its expertise in insurance product design, marketing, finance, and risk management, while the partner, often a well-embedded local financial institution, contributes its customer portfolio, distribution channel, brand, and relationships. Distributed power generation is a well-known example.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Collaborated with University Facilities, Safety & Risk, Risk Manager; ServPro; and Insurance Adjuster to plan and execute clean-up and equipment replacement. Establish functions from scratch — Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Sales, and HR.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

Among the acute political risks facing the world this year, the nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea are serious, no doubt, but the behavior of the 20 major economic powers scare us more: these countries can no longer agree on how the global economy should function. "Oh, Oh, come on," you might say.

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Politics Gordon Scenario Planning Globalization 13

Strategy Driven

MAY 5, 2020

Have secondary power sources available. Sometimes, the whole premises might not be damaged or destroyed, but the electrics blow or a storm knocks out your power. are kept running and protect your stock by having a secondary source of power available, such as industrial engines and generators. Talk to lenders.

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Insurance Contingency Plans Document Planning 66

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The central government is devolving power to state governments , encouraging them to make their own economic policies. We recommend companies first measure the risk-adjusted opportunity in each state by analyzing leading indicators of the market’s size, growth, industry clusters, and stability.

Strategy 8

Strategy Operations Policies Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The situation stabilized somewhat after the government abandoned the Zimbabwean dollar in favor of a multi-currency system in 2009 and entered a power-sharing deal with the opposition party. Mnangagwa’s first actions in office underscore how important he views economic recovery.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 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. Best wishes Tom.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

I propose a risk-oriented framework for deciding when and how to allocate decision problems between humans and machine-based decision makers. The framework differentiates problems along two independent dimensions: predictability and cost per error. Consider the first of these dimensions: predictability.

Uncertainty 9

Uncertainty Simon Cost Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

The failure to model the invisible hand is ironically powerful. The powerful invisible-hand metaphor refused to die. Economic equilibrium — a stable state toward which an economy would move — reveals a hope on the part of economists, not a mechanism captured in an accepted model.

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Crisis Decentralization Marketing Engineering 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

This poses significant risks not just to banks but potentially to the entire economy during the next downturn. Bank boards need simple and commonsense — but powerful — tools to cut through the complexity and push management behavior in the direction of responsible risk taking.

Banking 10

Banking Short-term Long-term Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

The risks in lower energy prices have a lot more to do with sustainability of some of the governments around the world that are really dependent on commodity revenues for their own legitimacy and power. economy, you’re talking about finance, you’re talking about IT — Apple and Facebook and others.

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Price Energy Constraint Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. The risk team helped run the numbers to ensure the client met the right credit threshold, then marketing prepared the package and the reps went to work. The risk function can do the same.

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Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Said the head of DoJ's Criminal Division in the press release about UBS: "The scheme alleged is of epic scale, involving people who have walked the halls of some of the most powerful banks in the world.".

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Finance Banking Press Release Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

All of these things make Putin and Russia the biggest, most powerful wildcard in the entire world, with the potential to cause a lot of damage to the global economy. The “weaponization of finance” is also high on your list. And actually, the biggest projection of American unilateral power is on the economics side.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Politics Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2012

At PwC, we learned a powerful lesson in how to engage our corporate antibodies. We began by lining up the biggest sponsor to champion the project, identifying the most powerful naysayers to help us mitigate the risks we were about to introduce, and then systematically recruiting our general management structure to do the real legwork.

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Innovation CFO Learning-by-Doing Brainstorming 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

In Derek’s view, the subsidiaries already had far too much power. “I don’t need to remind you what happens when we give so much power to the subsidiaries,” Vera said. We have to take back control at the top—not give the subsidiaries more power. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.”

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

This public-private collaboration includes the International Finance Corporation and food and beverage giants such as Coca-Cola, Nestle, and SABMiller. Together, these diverse players will help governments, companies and communities work together to manage the nexus.

Energy 11

Energy Supply Chain Constraint Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Money, equities, bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer, because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Tucker believes that recovery and resolution plans should reduce the direct hit to public finances following a bank's failure or distress, while also containing the system-wide impact. Each plan should also contribute to better managed firms, with stronger market discipline, risk management practices and less stability-threatening imprudence.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

This is driven by the successes of product-design leaders like Apple, and a macroeconomic environment that demands better risk management. Find Common Language: Designers don't typically study finance, accounting, or economics so communicating to them in these business contexts usually only adds to confusion.

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Prahalad Budgeting Creativity Fashion 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Anti-immigrant political movements swelled, helping to push Britain out of the European Union and bringing right-wing populists to power across Central Europe. China’s military buildup now allows it to project power across those sea lanes, challenging the freedom of navigation guaranteed by the U.S.

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Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9