Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Financial Technology Will Be in Higher Demand. As more businesses move to virtual formats, the need for financial technology will continue to increase in 2021. Gayhardt states that Hong Kong is already increasing its use of advanced fraud detection, biometric facial recognition, and other innovative AI technologies due to the pandemic.

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Supply Chain Retail Pharmaceuticals Technology 81

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.

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Supply Chain Directory Trends Entrepreneur 66

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? At the risk of drawing the ire of corporate elitists, I submit to you that the dumber your business is, the better off you are. Let’s drill down on the talent argument a bit deeper.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. The primary step involves an objective assessment to determine operational efficiency and effectiveness.

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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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Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. 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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Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

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.” The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

General Mills’ CEO recently blamed the winter for less-than-expected earnings , saying that “severe winter weather…disrupted plant operations and logistics…We lost 62 days of production…which hasn’t happened in decades. It might have actually generated increased revenue as well, if it meant operating while competitors couldn’t.

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Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Yes, political hacktivists brag about Web pages defaced and customer information released over the Internet, but companies rarely reveal the attacks that result in the loss of valuable intellectual property — business plans, proprietary technologies or fraudulent payments. These attacks can be devastating.

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Supply Chain Risk Management Hedge Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Small and medium-sized enterprises — SMEs — have long been recognized for their vital role in creating jobs and supporting supply chains in national economies. There is growing evidence of global SMEs that do more than supply inputs for the global supply chain. Of these 90% employ less than 10 people.

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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. Protect supply chains. Update HIPAA. financial services arena. Adopt “tokenization.”

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Health Care Supply Chain Insurance Risk Management 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. Others were unable to borrow to replace lost assets and address other operating needs, compromising their earnings potential.

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Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

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. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Thanks to their cost, the very strong interest in running them efficiently, and the enormous safety implications of their maintenance, it has been easy to justify the added costs of building in sensors that transmit information about the engine’s operating conditions to the ground in real time. Innovation Internet Risk management'

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Airlines Supply Chain Management Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In a globalized economy, these challenges arise from pervasive, at times catastrophic, issues in international business: cronyism, antitrust, and labor issues, as well as trade, the environment, taxes, and supply chains. This is the essence of corporate citizenship.

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CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

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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Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 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.)

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Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis Report 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

His group’s data science, procurement, and supply chain teams crafted algorithmic ensembles that, by all measures and simulations, would save hundreds of millions. In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. Yes, that’s exactly what it meant. All-In Autonomy.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2018

There is a crying need for companies to enlist their supply chain management departments in the fight against cyberattackers. Tim Robberts/Getty Images. According to our research , over 60% of reported attacks on publicly traded U.S.

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Supply Chain Management Metrics Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Companies are both operators and investors. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. These robo-advisors may be used to automate certain aspects of risk management and provide decisions that are ethical and compliant with regulation.

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

As globalization has created longer and increasingly complex food supply chains, there has been a concomitant surge in demand for locally-sourced food. But after the chain was linked to outbreaks of E. But after the chain was linked to outbreaks of E. Operations in a Connected World. How can this be?

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Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It’s no secret that organizations have been increasingly turning to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve decision making across business processes—from research and design to supply chain and risk management. Additionally, knowledge of common use cases (e.g.,

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Supply Chain McKinsey Engineering Agility 8

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. For example, the delays associated with social conflict at large mining operations can run in the vicinity of $20 million per week.

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Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

This technological and logistical challenge is made all the harder by the fact that by 2030, we'll be confronting a water supply shortage of approximately 40 percent due to a toxic combination of rising demand and climate-change-driven shifts in water supply. These issues create collective risks that cannot be managed in silos.

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Energy Supply Chain Constraint Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Likewise, many companies are taking action to make their operations and supply chains more resilient, such as moving key equipment to the second floor in flood-prone locations (although one client had multiple floods before taking this prudent action). Risk management Sustainability'

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Supply Chain Risk Management Energy Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

But we also identified notable differences: namely a greater percentage of FOB than non-FOB directors viewed innovation as their top challenge, and FOB directors were also more concerned than their non-FOB counterparts about the rising cost of materials and commodities, levels of debt and supply chain risk.

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FOB Diversity Talent Management How To 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. After all, most want to make a profit.

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