N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Moreover, COOs are the gatekeepers of risk management, ensuring that all operations adhere to legal and regulatory standards. Project Management: Mastering the art of overseeing projects from start to finish. Financial Acumen: Managing budgets and resources efficiently. But the financials are only one piece of the puzzle.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 13, 2023

Developed by ISN, a leading provider of supply chain risk management and compliance solutions, ISN Compliance includes a range of tools and resources that help organizations identify, assess, and mitigate risks in their supply chain. The Role of ISN Compliance in Promoting Workplace Safety.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It can involve studying consumer behavior, monitoring competitors, and staying informed about industry developments. It could involve investing in new product development, exploring new market segments, or adopting innovative marketing strategies. Equally important is training and development.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 23, 2024

APIs often serve as gateways for access to sensitive data and key functionalities, making any vulnerabilities exposed by APIs an extremely severe risk for organizations, potentially leading to data breaches or cyberattacks. They can also damage an enterprise’s reputation and have legal ramifications.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2024

Decision Risk In the realm of decision-making, the most overlooked risk isn’t tied to economic shifts, technological advancements, or climate challenges. It’s the risk inherent in human decision-making, made worse by our tendency to tune out the critical voices around us.

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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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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Underpinning the philosophy of governance excellence is the knowledge that effective governance fosters trust, propelling an organization’s reputation and sustainable growth. Implementing new strategies driven by advanced technology contributes significantly to organizational efficiency and effectiveness.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Attempting to deal with an attack on the down low can earn private enterprises a reputation as easy marks, and provoke subsequent attacks. Andrew Douthwaite has over 17 years of technology experience joining VirtualArmour in 2007 as a senior engineer. Be prepared. About the Author.

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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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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. 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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

As corporate leaders grapple with the question of how to prove something is (or isn’t) real, they will need to invest in new technology that helps them keep one step ahead of bad actors. But that technology is still in its early stages, and as it develops you can be sure that bad actors will be working on ways to defeat it.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Planning, tactics, organizational development. You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. Business Development. You maintain a well-earned reputation and are awake to company obligations. You develop-champion the tools to change. Systems and Processes. Culture and Mission.

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

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. Early in the process, you will want to assess the specific risks you are likely to encounter. Communication Information & technology IT management'

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Tools Workshop Information Technology Risk Management 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

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. Large technology companies might have to pay as much as $200 million to build a data center in Russia, compared with $43 million in the United States.

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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 12

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. One key to this partnership is identifying risk priorities—whether economic (e.g.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If the customers haven’t changed much, point to changes in the competitive environment that make your strategy less sound today than it was when it was developed. Mine societal, economic, political, regulatory, and technological trends to identify any external changes that necessitate a shift in your strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

She must also have the experience and capability to address business-in-society issues—legislation, regulation, investigation, enforcement and litigation — that now create risk and opportunity in all dimensions of corporate activity. Recent global developments underscore the importance of these societal issues.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Do you have the necessary resources (financial, technology, talent, infrastructure, etc.) How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? Who are your strongest leaders and how are you developing them to handle more responsibility? to hit your objectives?

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Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

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. ” Improving risk management. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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Blog Innovation Brand Strategic Planning 413

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

And this factor is likely to loom even larger in the future because many of the benefits of new technologies increase as more people join in. But also it is about developing a capability for reacting publicly, quickly and rapidly. You cannot, however, completely insulate your company from the consequences of information leakage.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

High-profile cyberattacks — ranging from the one suffered by Sony Pictures in 2014 to the global ransomware attacks that occurred last May and June — highlight the huge financial and reputational stakes. Outside cybersecurity experts can help develop the plan.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

Competition is very intense and it may not be in a business's interest to develop mitigation plans for something that occurs that rarely. Accidents happen and organizations expose themselves to losses and reputational risks because of the ways they communicate the risks associated with their products and services.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Both practices have long developed insights into their customers based on data and analytics. But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. The risk function can do the same. Protect and manage reputations.

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Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

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. It prevents the wisdom of learning from failure.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. They don’t have as much as experience with USDA inspection procedures and their own internal inspection systems may not be as well-developed and operationally as reliable as those at the Tysons of the world. This represents a huge business risk.

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Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 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.

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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.

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