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. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity. These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics.

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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. Implementing new strategies driven by advanced technology contributes significantly to organizational efficiency and effectiveness.

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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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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2018

Since 92% of all problems in companies stem from poor management decisions, do a better job of training managers to be leaders. Each one influences the other and the whole of the enterprise. How important is it to build an organization well, rather than constantly spend time in managing conflict?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 26, 2014

Some organizations create a Business Architecture graphic to show how business strategy, functions, processes, technology and data relate. that could influence the choice of one project or another. Relate Articles: Risk Management Best Practice 3 – Procedure Annotation and Commitment Tracking.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

More recently, CARVER has converted a new community of believers in the business world, including CEOs, financial analysts, and risk management planners, not to mention any number of Fortune 500 security directors. (One of us, Luke, is so enthusiastic about CARVER that he cowrote a book on it.).

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Demonstrated integrity and dependability assure customers and stakeholders that you will use your size and influence rightly. You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. Operations are sound, professional and productive. Keeping the cash register ringing is not the only reason for being in business.

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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. Demanding More From CFOs. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. To better understand the competitive landscape, directors suggested engaging with management.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

Widespread use of antivirus, intrusion detection technologies, improved cryptography algorithms, and methods for blacklisting infected web sites are just a few examples of how technical advances have improved cyber defense. This approach has greatly enhanced our ability to defend information systems against attack.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

billion people, the Chinese consumer market is a tempting target for Western technology companies. The recent news that Google is considering a re-entry into China further highlights a troubling balancing act faced by technology companies looking to do business there. With over 1.3

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

As corporate leaders grapple with the question of how to prove something is (or isn’t) real, they will need to invest in new technology that helps them keep one step ahead of bad actors. But that technology is still in its early stages, and as it develops you can be sure that bad actors will be working on ways to defeat it.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Two major trends are shaping this development: the growth of network technologies and the growing cultural tolerance for foreign business practices even in countries far away from the global mainstream. Some of these nano-multinationals take their products global via network technologies. Nano-multinationals.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

They frequently find the technologies are less of a hassle than the people. Renaissance Technologies and other, even more secretive investment funds are the management models here. Machine learning algorithms stress-test and risk-manage other machine learning algorithms. All-In Autonomy.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Many of these factors are beyond your control, but they are rarely outside of your sphere of influence. Crisis management Leadership Risk management' Media stories will help shape the perceptions of many stakeholders and this, in turn, will set attitudes and interactions going forward. Are you ready?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

We’ve got the latest technology. Our company has got the most up to date technology. Companies spend disproportionate amounts of money on technology and neglect their people, processes and policies. Technology represents less than 1% of an organization’s pie chart. Our people were hired to do their jobs.

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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. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

But being able to talk about IT risk is essential if you are going to make the right decisions about how you use technology in your business. Fortunately, there is a way to talk about IT risk — and understand risk — in terms that make sense to every manager. And the word IT makes him feel incompetent.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

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. Why is CORE willing to take on such global risk?

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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

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

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. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

It stands to reason that good project management requires active executive sponsorship. In fact, according to the Pulse Survey, executive sponsorship is the greatest factor influencing project success rates.

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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. Fortunately, Bezos gave you his plan, if you just know where to look. It is also a mindset, not a list of steps or strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

It stands to reason that good project management requires active executive sponsorship. In fact, according to the Pulse Survey, executive sponsorship is the greatest factor influencing project success rates.

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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

JUNE 20, 2016

This is not surprising: Growing regulation, increased investor focus on governance issues, and scary new categories of corporate risk (e.g. The understandable growth of risk management functions and their ascendancy in influencing strategy is important, but only part of the story here.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Adoption risk: Adopting technologies or responding to market, business, and technology trends too quickly or too slowly; reactively or over thought, without considering how non-technical implications or unintended consequences contribute adoption risk. Fear of failing means many choose to do nothing.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Therefore, training should be augmented by constantly updating technology, which has now evolved to detect errant behavior. By identifying signs of risky behavior, organizations can stage strategic intervention with high-risk users, or potentially even catch the next “Snowden” in progress.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Then one of the engineering executives, a fracking enthusiast and unconventional extraction technologies champion, spoke up. ” That’s not cynicism; that’s savvy risk management. What customer would matter most in five years? The wide-ranging English/Russian debate raged for 20 minutes.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

In addition, success will often depend on technological and other advancements, the route to which may not be apparent. The large, established business units within a firm usually control or have a heavy influence over budgets and strategies. It's difficult to get a budget for new ideas. It's easy to kill an innovation project.

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