Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Equipment, tools, materials, schedules. Value-added leadership is a healthy way of life that puts collaborations first. When all succeed, then profitability is much higher and more sustained than under the Hard Nose management style. Value-added leadership requires a senior team commitment. Skills and Tasks. Role and Job.

Leadership 50

Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. Most have done a great job of containing their financial reporting and compliance risks. Managers could keep the organization within acceptable tolerance ranges, driving performance to plan.

Risk Management 14

Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

In addition, many security experts consider it the definitive assessment tool for protecting critical assets. 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.

Tools 12

Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 12

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

I ask clients to do so without using the words: ‘technology,’ ‘sales,’ and ‘solutions.’ Technology is a tool, which feeds into tactics. Identify strategic objectives and goals. ’ Businesses fail to grow because they get stuck in buzz words and trite phrases that they hear from others.

Mission Statement 82

Mission Statement Benchmarking Tactics Strategic Planning 82

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

And the tools provided have to be usable and relevant so people will actually enter the data that’s needed. Google, for example, uses human capital analytics to encourage a coaching style among managers – because the analysis reveals this to be the most effective leadership style. The reason?

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The keystone of effective governance lies within the trapeze act of balancing stakeholder interests, harmonizing corporate objectives, maintaining legal and ethical standards, and ensuring a robust risk management system. The strength of governance can be significantly amplified with the employment of a dedicated leadership team.

Compliance 235

Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke, Technology and the Future. Futurism: learns from and benefits from the past… a powerful teaching tool.

Benchmarking 50

Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Every large financial services company has instituted risk management, but that hasn't prevented risky behavior in the form of office politics and personality conflict — as the JP Morgan trading debacle has demonstrated. Risk management isn't exclusive to banking. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

Merchandising 10

Merchandising Risk Management Supply Chain Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly. We asked the management team if we could eliminate the narrow metrics and bonuses, which rewarded only tactical performance, and focus more on the adaptive. Before, tricky problems would be redirected to a risk manager.

Organization 13

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Unfortunately, failing to assess the risk of the status quo does not mean the risks won’t materialize—it just means you won’t be adequately prepared when they do. If you are a member of a leadership team facing a critical strategic decision, you have an obligation to address these biases before inaction leaves your business irrelevant.

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Due Diligence Proposal Rogers 8

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.

Budgeting 80

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 80

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 S-Team (senior leadership team) developed Amazon’s flywheel. It is still a core tool used at Amazon today. Jeff Bezos.

Letter 90

Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 90

Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

Developing communications as a vital tool of business and life. The irony is that its principal corporate contributor (Eastman Kodak) fell by the wayside, a victim of changing technologies. Communicating with many people at the same time. Eliciting feedback from audiences. Two-way communication process.

Strategy 101

Strategy Budgeting Audience Risk Management 101

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

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. Some of the old ways really work better… and should not be dismissed just because they are old or some fashionable trend of the moment looks better.

Planning 64

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 64

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

As the scale and complexity of the cyber threat landscape is revealed, so too is the general lack of cybersecurity readiness in organizations, even those that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on state-of-the-art technology. Spending millions on security technology can certainly make an executive feel safe.

Training 11

Training Supply Chain Agility Risk Management 11

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. This loss aversion prevents taking appropriate risks.

Dunning 8

Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

.” Respectfully, one can’t be a hard-core engineer in aviation or automobiles without managing software matters. Always look to the leadership. It’s difficult to believe that either Volkswagen’s technical leadership or software engineers took code reviews seriously. Fresh perspective matters.

Engineering 8

Engineering Management Software Review 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

This is a big transition for firms whose marketing, sales-training and enablement tools, and wider organizational processes reflect outdated assumptions about purchasing in their markets. The cross-functional communication and coordination that is required to navigate this change is the job of leadership.

B2B 8

B2B AIDA AIDAS Disintermediation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

So what makes artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) champions confident that their technologies will be immune to comparably counterproductive outcomes? The enterprise history of personal productivity tools offers plenty of unhappy litanies of unintended consequences. The Risks and Rewards of AI. Insight Center.

Software 8

Software Learning-by-Doing Technology Compliance 8