N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Agility, innovation, disruption, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment, and above all else a bias toward action will lead to the creation of change. If your entity doesn’t innovate and change in accordance with market driven needs and demands it will fail…it’s just that simple. The Critic …The Critic opposes any and all change.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. It will be interesting to see if the next round of Google innovation will be as successful as the beauty of their initial simplicity.

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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. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Exploring Key Factors Influencing Effective Governance First and foremost, it is crucial to comprehend that governance is not a single-dimensional concept but a complex amalgamation of factors working in harmony. Moreover, influential leaders enhance performance by fostering an environment with innovation, learning, and growth.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

They are risk managers who believe in protecting what was rather than embracing what is, and what will be. . They are opportunity managers who believe engagement to be more valuable than silence, they believe in dialog not monologue, they believe in change and innovation – not in status quo. .

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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

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.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2017

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. As digital processes innovate and change the way that the finance industry operates, CFOs will be under more pressure to perform. CFOs Must Continue To Innovate.

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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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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Pop culture influences of non-profit icons, events and campaigns. Innovating programs, strategies and methodologies. This parallels a chapter in my previous book, “Pop Icons and Business Legends,” where I covered a 400-year history of business. Strategic planning, how-to instructions. Communications programs for NPOs.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

There has been much research to highlight the competitive advantages human capital can provide to an organization, and so it stands to reason that much thought has been given to understanding the various factors that influence someone’s decision to depart their employer. Chicken and egg.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Risk management processes don't — but they should. A better understanding of the drivers of behavior is needed for both banks and consumers to understand risk, and for the financial system to provide timely and targeted interventions. The challenge of better risk management cannot be achieved through regulation alone.

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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. Where do you see “X&# account in > and what can we do to (improve customer satisfaction, increase influence with key stakeholders, increase the life-cycle value, etc.)?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Gene Morphis, former CFO of CVS and David's Bridal suggests: "There is an interesting intersection between risk management and innovation that emerges in the CMO-CIO interface." It's up to the CEO to ensure that marketing and IT are on the same page in terms of both innovation goals and risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points. But the potential impact and influence of network effects goes far beyond unique selling propositions and user experience.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

But CEOs serious about confronting autonomy opportunity and risk should consider four proven organizational options. The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. McKinsey, Bain, and BCG are the management models here.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Bayes has even influenced the design of machine learning techniques, notably the naive Bayes classifier. Our instinct for determinism may well have been an evolutionary innovation. Probabilistic risk managers will think about the future of how they work.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

They know that once internalized, these beliefs and values affect the norms that influence day-to-day actions, determine what’s important, reinforce appropriate behavior, and change attitudes. In an organizational setting this applies equally, where people empower themselves through creativity, innovation and superior customer service.”.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. The “hidden in plain sight” management principles Bezos discussed in the letters is what caught my attention. “As Jeff Bezos.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management. Climate change, water scarcity, and poor labor conditions in much of the world increase the risk. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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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. Not surprisingly, two-thirds of all jobs created in the EU are created in SMEs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Most are accompanied by other restrictions, such as taxes and smoking bans in the case of cigarettes, which means it is difficult to disentangle the effects of warnings from other factors that influence behavior. Second, keep in mind that when orchestrated correctly, warnings influence producers as well as consumers. A 2003 U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. For medical conditions or sets of related medical conditions that can easily be treated on their own, the advantage of this model relative to the global payments model is that the provider is only financially accountable for the types of diagnoses that it can reasonably influence. Insight Center.

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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. It stands to reason that good project management requires active executive sponsorship.

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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. It stands to reason that good project management requires active executive sponsorship.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Nowhere is this best expressed than in a IBM global CEO survey in 2010, Capitalizing on Complexity , which noted "events, threats and opportunities aren't just coming at us faster or with less predictability; they are converging and influencing each other to create entirely new situations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

They could work with their supply chain partners to innovate and improve the resilience of the whole chain. Since then, the CSO’s role has most definitely grown and gained influence, as this Atlantic article explores by featuring CSOs from MGM, EMC, Owens-Corning, and elsewhere.

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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. That has coincided with marketing’s increased influence on strategy, driven by the unprecedented level of insights into customer behavior and trends that are now possible through analytics.

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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. The innovation roadmap was hauled out and reviewed less in the spotlight of global opportunities than the cold reflection of domestic politics. The unhappy innovation inference? No one disagreed.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

This idea of prospect theory, developed by Tversky and Kahneman and reported in a classic 1979 article (for which the Nobel prize was awarded) demonstrated that individuals do not make decisions rationally by selecting options with the highest expected value, because they are risk-averse and 'losses loom larger than gains.'.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Consider how the talent exodus is playing out New Zealand: between 2012 and 2013, the country’s researcher headcount (per million of the population) dropped by almost 11% and its ranking in the Global Innovation Index dropped four slots.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. What are the greatest predictors of success for a talent management practice? And what did they say was their biggest concern? Methodology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Numerical predictions offer a range of benefits for large, innovation organizations like Twitch. So I decided to make a prediction: If we build auto host I’m 70% confident that, within 8 weeks, 15% of our partners (our largest influencers) will be auto-hosting. The Arc of Forecasting at Twitch.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

When I flew into Lagos last month – only a few days after Nigeria had confirmed its first case of the Ebola Virus Disease – the city was clearly deep in risk management mode. Entrepreneurs and private-sector organizations are particularly well-placed to bring such disruptive innovations to life.

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