The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 17, 2023

A common refrain among entrepreneurs is that regulators struggle to keep pace with the innovations that they’re working on. A recent report from Cambridge Judge Business School highlights how important regulation is to the promotion of financial inclusion and the utilization of technology to effectively manage evolving consumer risks.

Benchmarking 123

Benchmarking Survey Finance Globalization 123

Strategy Driven

MAY 21, 2024

Innovative Solutions for Energy Resilience Several innovative solutions are being developed to enhance energy resilience. Role of Advanced Technologies Advanced technologies such as smart grids and predictive analytics are revolutionizing the management and protection of energy systems.

Energy 111

Energy Case Study Decentralization System 111

Talent Anarchy 1

AUGUST 25, 2023

Curriculum : A robust curriculum that includes a wide range of finance courses, real-world applications, and access to the latest technology is a must. Here’s why: Reputation and Rankings : Harvard consistently ranks among the top universities globally, and its business school, Harvard Business School (HBS), is equally renowned.

Finance 78

Finance Reputation Education Career 78

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

However, much of what she discusses is global because it is human. In examining religion, economics, organizations, law, business, technology, and media, the common thread is the diminishment of the leader. Risk management is not something that we generally like to spend our time thinking about.

Risk Management 282

Risk Management Influence Follow-up System 282

Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

From the rapid decline of the planet to regulation tightening, the political climate and the introduction of new technologies, leaders are up against challenging terrain. These obstacles can include anything from a global pandemic to natural disasters and talent shortages in a competitive business environment.

Learning-by-Doing 52

Learning-by-Doing Travel Competitive Advantage Crisis 52

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 14, 2019

At the same time, Estonia has so few embassies globally that often we have to fly people to another continent to get the visa in their passports.” Its very business revolves around breaking down barriers and reconnecting the world’s financial system by providing risk-managed banking services to emerging markets around the world.

Banking 70

Banking Policies Innovation Engineering 70

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

From PwC’s ChatPwC to McKinsey’s Lilli, KPMG’s KymChat, and more, the surge of AI integration echoes historical inflection points like the internet’s global connectivity and the industrial revolution’s manufacturing shifts. As AI copilots redefine work processes and business competition, questions arise about responsible innovation.

Consultative 25

Consultative Management Ethics Risk Management 25

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Financial Technology Will Be in Higher Demand. As more businesses move to virtual formats, the need for financial technology will continue to increase in 2021. Gayhardt states that Hong Kong is already increasing its use of advanced fraud detection, biometric facial recognition, and other innovative AI technologies due to the pandemic.

Supply Chain 85

Supply Chain Retail Pharmaceuticals Technology 85

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The keystone of effective governance lies within the trapeze act of balancing stakeholder interests, harmonizing corporate objectives, maintaining legal and ethical standards, and ensuring a robust risk management system. Google’s leadership ardently focuses on sustaining a culture of innovation, collaboration, and transparency.

Compliance 235

Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Previous to our technological advancements, the only way businesses could manage their multiple consumer platforms, numerous transactional tasks, and recover from data emergencies was to outsource to a variety of vendors. Drive Innovation. Employ Internal Multisourcing. It is how people communicate, work, and connect.

Strategy 50

Strategy Outsourcing Process Technology 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2022

Businesses need to stay on top of the latest trends and innovations in order to grow and succeed. However, as with any new technology, it can be hard to know how to best protect your data from security breaches. We live in a fast-paced and highly competitive world. Why Software Security Is Important.

Software 114

Software How To Reputation Trends 114

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

Innovation 11

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Yet even in this age of globalization, SMEs — their massive presence in the economy and vital role in innovation notwithstanding — are still viewed as largely only effective in their domestic and, occasionally, regional markets. Or as they say in the more uppity business schools: build a global footprint.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Technology Trends 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The finance sector as we know it is being transformed by new technology. Digital innovation is everywhere, from Big Data to risk management software, and it’s all coming to change in the way that the sector is organised and run. CFOs Must Continue To Innovate. Integration. Demanding More From CFOs.

Finance 51

Finance Process Influence Innovation 51

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. 3D printing is poised to redefine global manufacturing and distribution. Innovation, customization, speed, and location are also among the opportunities it offers. manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, according to a leading technology industry analyst.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Yet the large organizations in which we work are often inflexible and incapable of adaptation and true innovation. Innovation slows, and the company either atrophies or gets superseded by more agile organizations. Now consider your average human. Most of us are individually adaptive, flexible and very creative.

Organization 9

Organization Uncertainty Gordon Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Fostering innovation. billion in mining projects since 2010.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them.

Uncertainty 308

Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 308

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Technology : Providers of mobile banking and cash transfer solutions are doing particularly well in the economy due to the country’s multi-currency exchange regime and low availability of U.S. Technology solutions that help accelerate improvements of Zimbabwe’s decaying infrastructure will also be in high demand.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The other is population-based “global” or “capitated” payments” such as accountable care organizations in which a provider is paid a fixed amount to cover all of a patient’s health needs for a specified period of time. Innovating for Value in Health Care. As payers and providers in the U.S.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Health Care Cost Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Despite increased spending and innovation in the cybersecurity market, there is every indication that the situation will only worsen. It only took one click on a link that led to the download of malware strains like WannaCry and Petya to set off cascading, global cybersecurity events. Connectivity First, Security Second.

System 8

System Bottom-up Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

While working with a huge Russian hydrocarbon company in Texas last year, our innovation conversation quickly zeroed in on customers. Then one of the engineering executives, a fracking enthusiast and unconventional extraction technologies champion, spoke up. The unhappy innovation inference? The room went quiet.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Levitt Tourism Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

We at MIT CISR have found that enterprises are using one or more of three approaches to managing total digitization: convergence, coordination, or a separate digital innovation stacks approach. At Boeing, all enterprise technology (including digital) investments are managed by the CTO, which enables significant synergies.

CIO 9

CIO Organization Committee CTO 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

In one of the most comprehensive global surveys of corporate directors to date, we found that they were very worried about developing and enacting strategic plans that will enable their organizations to succeed. Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Not rising costs.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

For example, attracting and retaining top talent and global competitive threats were leading concerns for both. Third, FOB boards should exert greater effort to make not only their boards but also their companies more diverse–especially in light of their concerns about innovation and performance on talent management.

FOB 8

FOB Diversity Talent Management How To 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

The collection, storage, and securing of data is a priority in the business world globally. Cloud-native technology has shaped business operations remarkably in the past decade. IT managers in businesses with more than 5,000 members within the UK, US, and APAC were questioned to arrive at its conclusions.

Compliance 70

Compliance Management Survey Report 70

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

No surprises here — this is sadly a global reality that we’re all too familiar with. So what makes artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) champions confident that their technologies will be immune to comparably counterproductive outcomes? The Risks and Rewards of AI. They shouldn’t be so sure.

Software 8

Software Learning-by-Doing Technology Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

Despite lower oil prices, currency depreciations, higher taxes, and geopolitical uncertainty, the region is still rich in opportunities, from selling efficiency-enhancing technology to the Saudi government to offering Western products to 100 million Ethiopian consumers. We’ve seen highly creative ways of doing so.

Depreciation 9

Depreciation Contingency Plans Policies Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Our global financial system moves trillions of dollars a day and serves billions of people. First, because it’s antiquated, a kludge of industrial technologies and paper-based processes dressed up in a digital wrapper. But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. Distributed Database. Insight Center.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Over the last two decades, business leaders in the West have been responding to risks posed by profound changes in the global economy, in technology, and in demographics. They have used advances in information technology, which might have destroyed their businesses, to improve their offerings and cut their cost of production.

Politics 11

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 11