N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The concept delves more deeply than mere regulatory compliance, stretching towards a proactive approach that involves risk anticipation, scenario planning, and sound decision-making processes. Moreover, influential leaders enhance performance by fostering an environment with innovation, learning, and growth.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 22, 2024

As markets evolve and technological advancements accelerate, companies must adopt comprehensive strategies to navigate these changes and seize new opportunities. Effective strategic planning requires skilled professionals who can analyze market trends, integrate digital solutions, champion sustainability, and manage financial risks.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2024

Businesses must adapt to survive and thrive, whether driven by technological advancements, economic shifts, or global crises. Cultivating such adaptability entails tolerating change, actively embracing it, fostering innovation, and empowering individuals to champion novel ideas and methodologies.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Effective financial management is a cornerstone of successful business operations. Without sound financial strategies, even the most innovative and promising ventures can stumble and fail. Businesses should evaluate potential investment opportunities, whether in new equipment, technology, marketing, or expansion, with a critical eye.

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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.

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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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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

If your competitors are constantly innovating and evolving, then so should you – if not, they’ll soon outpace you and leave you in their dust. This could mean making sure they are reliable and durable, as well as up-to-date with the latest technology. It Helps You Stay Ahead of the Competition. It Keeps Your Ideas Fresh.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 30, 2017

Strategic Planning: This program crafts a strategic plan and ongoing strategy execution process, which identifies the initiatives required to move the organization form its current state to the achievement of its long-term vision. The 7 programs include: 1.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Instead, those people were much more likely to work at larger tech companies who have the resources and expertise to help them navigate the Kafka like H-1B and permanent residency process. It’s a process that Estonian startup Jobbatical are familiar with, as they recently announced a pivot of their own.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 3, 2020

The other side offers raging competition as the internet opens up the market to international players through innovation and technology that is hard to keep up with. Many traditional businesses are succumbing to entities dominating web presence by implementing the latest technology. Cloud Technology. Keep trying, though.

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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. Preparedness and implementing a risk management program are crucial to recovering and resisting the impacts of change, as well as maintaining a competitive advantage.

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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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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. Engage Customers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As AI copilots redefine work processes and business competition, questions arise about responsible innovation. 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.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Put simply…not all inputs should weigh equally in one’s decisioning process. By developing a qualitative and quantitative filtering mechanism for your decisioning process you can make better decisions in a shorter period of time. Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk.

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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. When looking into testing methods, it can be a daunting process to find what will work for your programs.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

That’s an interesting thought, what process did you go through to reach that conclusion? What’s our biggest risk in this, and what’s your fallback position? Do you have the necessary resources (financial, technology, talent, infrastructure, etc.) What do you need from me in order to make that happen?

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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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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 biggest surprise after studying the Amazon letters to shareholders written by Jeff Bezos is how much management advice he provides.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

Cybersecurity, information technology security or computer security is the process of the protection of computer systems, programs, and networks from digital attacks or the theft or from the damage of the hardware, software, electronic data or misdirection or disruption of the services they provide. Social engineering.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. Technology is but one tool of the trade. In the 1940s, technology brought us the 45-RPM and 33-1/3-RPM records… adding up to the ‘mother speed’ of 78-RPM. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. by Hank Moore.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. As was discussed in Chapter 8, technology constitutes one tenth of 1% of any organization’s overall Big Picture. In 1999, the U.S. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

Two-way communication process. The irony is that its principal corporate contributor (Eastman Kodak) fell by the wayside, a victim of changing technologies. The same fate had fallen the electronics industry, whose innovator (the Thomas Edison Electric Company) fell behind others in leading the trends and usage.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Businesses are constantly experimenting with new ways to use artificial intelligence for better risk management and faster, more responsive fraud detection — and even to predict and prevent crimes. While today’s basic technology is not necessarily revolutionary, the algorithms it uses and the results they can produce are.

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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. Recruitment, performance metrics, and career advancement all need to be viewed through a lens of technology-driven innovation.

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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

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. Innovation, customization, speed, and location are also among the opportunities it offers. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well. Most hearing aids in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Companies such as IBM, Apple, Toyota, and Fidelity have demonstrated an interest and appetite for deep research and innovation by introducing AI platforms and solutions for customers, partners, and employees. During the past five years, industrial use of artificial intelligence (AI) has risen exponentially across industries. Assess readiness.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software. But CEOs serious about confronting autonomy opportunity and risk should consider four proven organizational options.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

In fact, recent research [PDF] conducted by the CMO Council, suggests that this process should start with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and the Chief Information Officer (CIO). A recent study (also from IBM) indicates that more than 70% of CMOs feel they are underprepared to manage the explosion of data and "lack true insight.".

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Is there any aspect of your daily life and business that is not significantly affected by digital technology? The ever-growing digital wave is washing over just about every facet of our personal and organizational lives, our consumer experiences, and across every industry and sector in its impact on business models and processes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

For whatever reason, they didn’t seem to fear their company’s quality control or testing processes. Occam’s razor cuts deep; those processes were technically compromised and corrupt. Indeed, code often makes those aerodynamic, material and thermodynamic innovations possible. Their brazenness unnerves.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Workers were carefully trained to follow processes exactly as they were laid out. Every high performer needs both.

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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. Network effects, not unlike risk management, transcend traditional enterprise functions and silos.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Yet the large organizations in which we work are often inflexible and incapable of adaptation and true innovation. Most try to decrease randomness, with executives conducting feasibility studies and risk analyses or tightening budgets, introducing more processes, standardizing operations. Now consider your average human.

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