Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities. Review the work that you’ve done on tight deadlines. Care about deadlines. Analyze what makes it different.

Energy 60

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 60

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. 7 Applications for Yesterdayism… How to Shape the Past Into the Future: Re-Reading… Reviewing… Finding New Nuggets in Old Files.

Planning 64

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 64

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2022

Securities could help give insurers the breathing room they need to keep growing — and meet customers’ mounting needs.

Insurance 15

Insurance Marketing Risk Management Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Last month, Facebook announced in a brief statement that it will be shutting down Partner Categories, a feature that allows marketers to target ads on the company’s universe of platforms by using third-party data provided by data brokers. kelly bowden/Getty Images.

Marketing 8

Marketing Advertising Industry Risk Management 8

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. As a result, the company refocused human workers to provide valuable market intelligence. Insight Center. Adopting AI.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Technology System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

In the manufacturing sector alone, market intelligence firm IDC expects the IoT market to grow to about $100 billion by 2018, a five-year combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18%. All of this change will require new technologies that enable faster, more secure ways for machines to share and process data. Insight Center.

Innovation 8

Innovation CAGR Diversity Risk Management 8

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 8

Training Supply Chain Agility Risk Management 8

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.). 3 – Moderate impact.

Tools 9

Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and Chief Risk Officers (CROs) may seem to have little in common. But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. Both practices have long developed insights into their customers based on data and analytics.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

unilaterally pulls out of the Iran nuclear deal), building contingency plans, and diversifying their portfolio of markets. more competitive prices, more localized products) and improve their risk management and operational efficiency. Many companies are assessing their exposure to specific policy decisions (e.g., if the U.S.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Contingency Plans Policies Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

But today, acquiring and interpreting customer data inherently must involve both the marketing and IT departments. 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). Find Common Ground.

CIO 8

CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. These include legislation, regulation, investigation, enforcement, litigation, ethics, reputation, crisis management, corporate citizenship, and pressures from public officials, NGOs, and the media.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

The IoT will demand another round of risk management strategy review, new network security evaluation tools, and business model revisions. This is a fast-evolving feature of the IoT, around which industrial equipment markets have not yet aligned. They tended to use the terms telematics and mobile resource management.

White Paper 8

White Paper Policies Risk Management Competitive Intelligence 8

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

industries, and a review of hundreds of academic studies on the psychology of human performance, shows that most leaders and organizations tend to focus on just one type of performance. military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly. Related Video. Set learning goals.

Organization 9

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Commentators and researchers have focused on the crucial role of the CEO in leading effective corporate action to promote high performance, high integrity , and sound risk management. sales, marketing, manufacturing, intellectual property—in all business units in all geographies.

CFO 8

CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Over the last two decades, business leaders in the West have been responding to risks posed by profound changes in the global economy, in technology, and in demographics. They have used advances in information technology, which might have destroyed their businesses, to improve their offerings and cut their cost of production.

Politics 8

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

A property-and-casualty insurance company, for instance, knew that business customers who invested in risk management were longer tenured and more profitable than others. They involve marketing in the rollout. Early in the process, you will want to assess the specific risks you are likely to encounter.

Tools 8

Tools Workshop Information Technology Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

It can often seem like digital technology is making every aspect of business move at warp speed. There are real benefits to this real-time business capability: getting to market faster, capturing value quicker, more immediate responsiveness to customer needs. Operations Product development Risk management'

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Development Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

It is by now abundantly clear that, left unchecked, AI algorithms embedded in digital and social technologies can encode societal biases , accelerate the spread of rumors and disinformation, amplify echo chambers of public opinion, hijack our attention , and even impair our mental wellbeing. First, it should adopt a holistic perspective.

Ethics 9

Ethics Report System Sample 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

On paper, the project seemed like it would be a hit: The investment by the mining company would bring jobs and 21st-century technology to an economically poor area and tax revenues to the government. Managers need to communicate directly with many stakeholders to build a shared understanding of local needs, issues, and concerns.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

But for businesses, knowing when to expend time and effort preventing — and planning responses to — low probability, high consequence events is now, more than ever, one of the hardest and most important risk management problems to address. See my prior thoughts on the range of issues here and here.)

Risk Management 10

Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis Report 10

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 Regulatory creep.

Ethics 8

Ethics Technology Short-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Yet, unlike money, the market for personal data is relatively embryonic. technology companies as much as $35 billion in potential business. At the same time, several technology platforms that do not collect or share personal data have emerged since mid-2013. In the personal data market, many key questions remain to be answered.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

But there are plenty of other tools they could be using to do their jobs better — technologies that have proved useful in other contexts. Through virtual-reality technology, for instance, boards could gain a deeper understanding of their companies and the value they create. Boards Technology Communication Collaboration'

Scenario Planning 8

Scenario Planning Tools Technology Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

I won't review this evidence here (If you're interested, see Brand Relevance ) but will instead explore the question: Why do we see this suboptimal, timid investment pattern? Estimation of the prospects for substantial or transformational innovation will depend on some uncertain market factors. There are four interrelated reasons: 1.

Kahneman 14

Kahneman Tversky Company Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Then one of the engineering executives, a fracking enthusiast and unconventional extraction technologies champion, spoke up. The innovation roadmap was hauled out and reviewed less in the spotlight of global opportunities than the cold reflection of domestic politics. State satisfaction mattered more than market disruption.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Levitt Tourism Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These threats change the risk management calculus of firms hoping to succeed in a more turbulent world. Start-ups are particularly at risk today because of both their size and age. Make risk a strategic priority. Yet that traditional approach can lead corporations to overlook risks’ integrated effects.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. But when I put the question to top management, well, they''re busy — not their problem, that''s for sure — and they refer me to the chief information officer or the chief technology officer. Why Your CEO Is a Security Risk.

Company 8

Company Chief Operating Officer Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well. manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, according to a leading technology industry analyst. Most hearing aids in the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

At the same time, front-runners across industries are partnering with technology companies to identify game-changing business solutions that can be achieved through AI. Competitive advantage: Insurers with AI capabilities can position themselves to handle market challenges better than their competitors in the ever-changing insurance business.

Insurance 8

Insurance Industry Content Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. Guidelines for selecting an appropriate model.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

without any compliance process or technology in place.". The combination of the right policy and the right technology can render even the most delicate of communications compliant. Employees, particularly those in the sales and marketing functions, need to know the rules of the road," Langford says.

Compliance 15

Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Technology Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

We validated our quantitative approach by reviewing several case studies of U.S. their production capacity, which obviously varied considerably) and the competitive intensity of their markets (which ranged from perfect competition to near monopoly, because of regulatory differences between states). and international electric utilities.

Company 8

Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

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.

Game Theory 8

Game Theory Incentives Diversity System 8