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

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

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

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

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. 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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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

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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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. Some of these nano-multinationals take their products global via network technologies.

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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. 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.

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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. ” Improving risk management. Fostering innovation.

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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

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

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

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 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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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

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

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.

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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?

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