N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2019

We have created legions of risk managers posing as leaders, when what we need are more leaders who understand how opportunity adds value, shapes culture, attracts talent, and brings about transformative change. Be careful however not to fall into the trap of “me too” innovation – don’t copy; create.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

The first key in understanding how to make great decisions is learning how to synthesize the overwhelming amount incoming information leaders must deal with on a daily basis, while making the best decisions possible in a timely fashion. Another aspect that needs to be factored into the decisioning process is the source of the input.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

While AI will be deployed to manage certain tasks, including higher-level decision making, the technology’s true power is in augmenting human capabilities — and that holds true in the supply chain. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center. Adopting AI.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

Risk management is critical for business decisions — but may not be healthy for making decisions about your career. In fact, if you want your career to take off, you may need to do the opposite of what risk managers try to do: Instead of focusing on how to reduce risks, you may need to embrace and enhance them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

One of the key challenges CMOs face is figuring out how to partner with other internal functions. But given that today's CMO is often the main connection between the consumer and the company, a strong relationship with the CIO can allow her to leverage technology to better understand those customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

How the most innovative providers are creating value. For an example of how to proceed, they can look to the financial services industry, where some of the most well-known examples of cyberattacks in the last decade have occurred. consumers are now intimately familiar with how to use such cards. billion per year.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Your organization needs a CNEO—a Chief Network Effects Officer—to integrate and align how your enterprise gets value from “ harvesting collective intelligence.”. Network effects, not unlike risk management, transcend traditional enterprise functions and silos. Information & technology Leadership Social media'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The second type, known as adaptive performance , is how effectively your organization diverges from its strategy. Adaptive performance manifests as creativity, problem solving, grit, innovation, and citizenship. military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. But what if an innovation poses a threat, and you can’t yet tell whether it has genuinely transformative potential? Fuse/Getty Images. These are rarely studied questions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

The second is crafting a cybersecurity framework that addresses risks across government and industry — and to do so quickly. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants a preliminary framework in place by the end of this summer, with a final set of guidelines ready to go in February 2014.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Not only do great CEOs understand how to recruit a top executive team, but they also understand how to build cohesion among team members through collaboration while addressing specific situational and contextual needs. How will we measure them, and what hurdles do we need to hit to be successful? to hit your objectives?

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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. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? Our instinct for determinism may well have been an evolutionary innovation.

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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 may be prudent, and required, for you to continue with awareness programs, but you will have to rely more on intelligent technologies and automation if you hope to have any chance at success.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. When we see how far we have come, it gives further direction for the future. Technology is but one tool of the trade. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. Innovative Then and Now… Still Creating. by Hank Moore.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

To help address it, ADO has, with the help of some innovative business firms, leapt to the forefront with a new approach to sourcing cybersecurity talent: “Dandelion programs.” Much has been learned about how to manage these programs. Specially developed training provides unique preparation for the job.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

One innovative portfolio-management technique the mission employed was a novel free-market resource-allocation concept drawn from the field of economics. Few companies, it would appear, pay enough attention to teaching people how to lead teams. Continuing Talent Development.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

It is just as important how, when and why we communicate with each other: Shows that the company is a seamless concept… an integrated team working for the good of customers. Indicates sophistication by each representative… that every team player knows how to utilize each other for mutual benefit.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

One innovative portfolio-management technique the mission employed was a novel free-market resource-allocation concept drawn from the field of economics. Few companies, it would appear, pay enough attention to teaching people how to lead teams. Continuing Talent Development.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

All of this change will require new technologies that enable faster, more secure ways for machines to share and process data. The question confronting Cisco and other companies is how to do that – how to speed the process of innovation, especially as technological change threatens to upend our current business models.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

You get to decide when to work, whom to work with and how to work. You might have cutting-edge technology at your disposal and AI that makes your job easy and hassle-free. But you cannot manage without human labor. You need your employees to run these machines and technological innovations that you are ever so thankful for.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

But we also identified notable differences: namely a greater percentage of FOB than non-FOB directors viewed innovation as their top challenge, and FOB directors were also more concerned than their non-FOB counterparts about the rising cost of materials and commodities, levels of debt and supply chain risk. How to Fix the Problems.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Leaders equate risk with potential failure, so organizations have morphed into hierarchical, fixed systems to constrain variability within an acceptable range that has become progressively narrower. Understanding Risk. Risk is a necessary feature of innovation. This loss aversion prevents taking appropriate risks.

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