Comments for Risk for Good http://risk4good.com Start the Conversation Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:27:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Boardroom Video by My Top #CSR and #CorpGov Thought Leaders on Twitter | greengopost.com http://risk4good.com/boardroomvideo/#comment-500 My Top #CSR and #CorpGov Thought Leaders on Twitter | greengopost.com Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:27:52 +0000 http://risk4good.com/?page_id=998#comment-500 [...] advocacy of transparency and diversity on boards of directors in infectious. By the way, Fay’s collection of videos related to boardroom issues is a must watch. Annaliza Humlen: I don’t know how she does it, but [...] [...] advocacy of transparency and diversity on boards of directors in infectious. By the way, Fay’s collection of videos related to boardroom issues is a must watch. Annaliza Humlen: I don’t know how she does it, but [...]

]]> Comment on The “Forward Thinking” Boardroom by Fay http://risk4good.com/2011/05/the-forward-thinking-boardroom/#comment-321 Fay Thu, 12 May 2011 22:08:44 +0000 http://risk4good.com/?p=1054#comment-321 Mark, well said! Thanks for your contribution to the conversation. Best, Fay Mark, well said! Thanks for your contribution to the conversation. Best, Fay

]]> Comment on The “Forward Thinking” Boardroom by Mark http://risk4good.com/2011/05/the-forward-thinking-boardroom/#comment-320 Mark Thu, 12 May 2011 20:55:19 +0000 http://risk4good.com/?p=1054#comment-320 Fay, great post and great challenge to today’s board. For me, as a practicing board member and a broadly experienced executive, I think the issue that faces today’s boards of understanding and being able to provide a governance framework to address technology issues should not be underestimated. In the context of the question you asked for “seeing into the future”, technology’s increasingly pervasive nature and its underpinning many of the critical business processes, and therefore being foundational to decision making, should not be underestimated. Looking into the future, I believe, will reveal a business world whose very foundations will be built on our business processes and information architectures that will become increasingly complex as businesses strive to understand complex customer relationships, evidenced not by neat organizational flat databases, but by data analytics across distributed and unrelated internal and external information systems. For these reasons, the ability of our boards to understand today’s technology environment and begin to envision the future will require education, foresight and courage. Fay, great post and great challenge to today’s board. For me, as a practicing board member and a broadly experienced executive, I think the issue that faces today’s boards of understanding and being able to provide a governance framework to address technology issues should not be underestimated.

In the context of the question you asked for “seeing into the future”, technology’s increasingly pervasive nature and its underpinning many of the critical business processes, and therefore being foundational to decision making, should not be underestimated. Looking into the future, I believe, will reveal a business world whose very foundations will be built on our business processes and information architectures that will become increasingly complex as businesses strive to understand complex customer relationships, evidenced not by neat organizational flat databases, but by data analytics across distributed and unrelated internal and external information systems.

For these reasons, the ability of our boards to understand today’s technology environment and begin to envision the future will require education, foresight and courage.

]]> Comment on The “Forward Thinking” Boardroom by Fay http://risk4good.com/2011/05/the-forward-thinking-boardroom/#comment-319 Fay Thu, 12 May 2011 18:53:53 +0000 http://risk4good.com/?p=1054#comment-319 Thanks Alex! Appreciate your recognizing that we need to set up board chairs to be successful. Giving them more accountability is good when it comes with additional resources. This is where Risk for Good can leverage board chair's vision with a "strategic board management" road-map. As Alice in Wonderland said "If you don't know where you're going any road will take you there." Thanks Alex! Appreciate your recognizing that we need to set up board chairs to be successful. Giving them more accountability is good when it comes with additional resources. This is where Risk for Good can leverage board chair’s vision with a “strategic board management” road-map. As Alice in Wonderland said “If you don’t know where you’re going any road will take you there.”

]]> Comment on The “Forward Thinking” Boardroom by Alex Todd http://risk4good.com/2011/05/the-forward-thinking-boardroom/#comment-318 Alex Todd Thu, 12 May 2011 13:31:13 +0000 http://risk4good.com/?p=1054#comment-318 Fay, I like the idea of board chairs leading other leaders. In my mind, that means delegating more responsibility and accountability to committee chairs that empower them to provide board leadership. I believe way too much reliance is being placed on board chairs. Fay, I like the idea of board chairs leading other leaders. In my mind, that means delegating more responsibility and accountability to committee chairs that empower them to provide board leadership. I believe way too much reliance is being placed on board chairs.

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