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. At the start of the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, it was a catalog of minor operational and logistical problems that led journalists to start reporting on "the glitch Games."

Risk Management 14

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 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 10

Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 10

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. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

Banking 8

Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 8

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. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely.

Organization 10

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

In an uncertain and volatile world, risk management — a previously unsexy subject for many managers who created annual updates or reviews of their company's risk management plans — is now a front-burner issue for many. This assumption may be fundamentally flawed.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

The answer is found in a sound risk management program that trains, equips, monitors, measures and rewards people for avoiding mistakes and making good decisions. Others work in food manufacturing facilities while others operate an enormous trucking fleet. But there's more going on here than cost management.

Risk Management 10

Risk Management Insurance Incentives Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Companies are cutting supply chain complexity and accelerating responsiveness using the tools of artificial intelligence. Through AI, machine learning, robotics, and advanced analytics, firms are augmenting knowledge-intensive areas such as supply chain planning, customer order management, and inventory tracking. alashi/Getty Images.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Technology System Engineering 8

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

of The People Equation offers this advice for an IDP: “I would recommend that leaders build in one action item that relates to learning an aspect related to the organization’s operations that is outside of the team member’s area of expertise. Wally Bock , from Three Star Leadership , says “ Every IDP should include lots of review.

Leadership Development 283

Leadership Development Development Planning Self-aware 283

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

Organizations that take cyber security seriously should implement best practices that will help reduce the disconnects and ensure effective cyber risk management. This strategy must capture an appropriate balance between tools, people and processes. Assume that at some point your organization will be breached.

Technology 8

Technology Survey Cost Information 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

They’re starting to use more digital tools to gather information, post questions and comments, connect individuals in remote locations, and present ideas more visually. But there are plenty of other tools they could be using to do their jobs better — technologies that have proved useful in other contexts.

Scenario Planning 8

Scenario Planning Tools Technology Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

” Many managers can easily recite the business case for ethics: Who doesn’t want better risk management, deeper employee engagement, reduced regulatory costs, public trust, and a lure to purpose-driven Millennials? They are less subject to short-term operational pressures, and accordingly less risk-averse.

Ethics 12

Ethics Short-term Long-term Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Companies are both operators and investors. However, they don’t have the tools or practices to best allocate capital, and as a result, 92% of companies allocate their capital the same way year over year. The costs of AI-enabled tools are falling, and availability is rising.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Indeed, we see many succumbing to what Microsoft’s Kate Crawford calls “ data fundamentalism ” — the notion that massive datasets are repositories that yield reliable and objective truths, if only we can extract them using machine learning tools. A more nuanced view is needed.

Ethics 10

Ethics Report System Sample 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

An example is The North Face, which is experimenting with its Fluid Expert Personal Shopper tool, powered by IBM’s Watson, to provide customers with a more intuitive search experience through a natural language capability. Read more from Cognizant: What Consumers Want Online Now from Their Health Care Plans. Assess readiness.

Insurance 8

Insurance Industry Content Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Then develop a risk profile for your current strategy using the same framework you’re using to assess your new strategic options. If you have assessed the risk of your strategic options in terms of brand risk, operational risk, market risk, and so on, do the same for the current strategy.

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Due Diligence Proposal Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management. Climate change, water scarcity, and poor labor conditions in much of the world increase the risk. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

This turmoil led to huge operational shifts in the financial services sector, where there’s more focus than ever on consumer education, industry information sharing, and stronger forms of authentication, among other things. In the risk management world, that is known as taking a holistic approach. Update HIPAA.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Insurance Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

For example, the French global energy player ENGIE recently tilted its primary dimension from product (such as power, services, and infrastructure) toward region in order to better serve its clients in the territories in which it operates. The executives in charge of the various groups sit together naturally in the top management team.

Organization 8

Organization P&L Report Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

For people who crave a bigger challenge, at least 27 Fortune 500 companies — including Dow Corning, Intel, PepsiCo, FedEx, IBM, and Pfizer — now operate pro bono programs in emerging economies such as India, Brazil, Vietnam, and Ghana, according to a survey by CDC Development Solutions.

Participative 13

Participative Library Entrepreneur Survey 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

For instance, the CORE Institute’s Excellence through Evidence pathways and protocols define when non-operative treatments are and are not likely to be more successful than surgery. Most uniquely, due to the standardized data set available to the group now, they have successfully launched predictive analytic tools.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Health Care Cost Globalization 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Technology is but one tool of the trade. 7 Applications for Yesterdayism… How to Shape the Past Into the Future: Re-Reading… Reviewing… Finding New Nuggets in Old Files. Review case studies and their patterns for repeating themselves. When we see how far we have come, it gives further direction for the future.

Planning 86

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 86

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Document how employee actions or inactions might contribute to the risks described above, then develop a list of desired behaviors and guidelines for making it a simple as possible for staff to adopt them. No two organizations are the same, and neither are the cultures and contexts in which they operate.

Health Care 9

Health Care Forrester Policies Tactics 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Since weak spots in the system often aren't apparent until after a disaster strikes, the plans should include redundancies--for instance, two separate supply chains to provide bottled water and portable water-purification tools.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Transportation Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

As Andy Singleton, CEO at Assembla , explained to me, continuous deployment can be both cheaper and lower risk. And the risk can be managed through a new kind of tool called “feature gates.”. Google’s operation stands out for its scale. Google’s Automated Test Machine.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Development Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

For example, the delays associated with social conflict at large mining operations can run in the vicinity of $20 million per week. Clearly, the failure to recognize the risk of social conflict can cost millions of dollars and set investments back by years. Ignoring the bigger picture is likely to lead to costly mistakes.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2017

customers, competitors, suppliers, employees, regulators, partners, and so on) occur at the level of the operating unit, and if these interfaces are genuinely different between operating units, it makes sense to locate the corresponding tasks (e.g., If the sources of these opportunities and threats (e.g., Avoiding duplication.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Efficiency Mintzberg Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

One such bank has security companies, car lots, courier firms, trading concerns, educational businesses, a golf club, and other similar operations all welded together in an unwieldy yet profitable group. In a sense, African entrepreneurs run profit ecosystems rather than business units.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Often using thousands of servers at high capital and operational expense, IT security personnel will play back every transaction and analyze it in order to determine who the cheaters are and how they are manipulating the game. Unstructured data can be one of the tools used to limit fraudulent activity.

Airlines 8

Airlines Film Industry Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

The enterprise history of personal productivity tools offers plenty of unhappy litanies of unintended consequences. For too many managers, the technology’s costs often rival its benefits. Individuals with relatively limited training and knowledge of their tools are being told to use them to get their jobs done.

Software 8

Software Learning-by-Doing Technology Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2017

Their operations involve partnerships, specializations, and supply chains. Rather than thinking of a clandestine hacker working out of a basement, you will be better served to picture a sophisticated, professional operation working out of an office tower. We trust our digital communication tools — social media, email, messaging.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain System CFO Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

In particular, expect it to challenge your conception of cybersecurity and your ability to deliver it in IoT-enabled digital networks, your commercial operations, and your partner ecosystems. The IoT will demand another round of risk management strategy review, new network security evaluation tools, and business model revisions.

White Paper 8

White Paper Policies Risk Management Competitive Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Economy Finance Risk management' For a business-friendly Supreme Court that has been nibbling around the edges of shareholder suits but had until now avoided taking on fraud on the market directly, this debate seems to have provided a window of opportunity.

Training 8

Training Efficiency Class Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Third, it’s exclusionary, denying billions of people access to basic financial tools. After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8