a. Select one: c. Keep management happy endstream endobj 224 0 obj <>stream A fearlessly transparent CEO can have conversations with members of the nominating committee and the chair or independent director that address essential board capacitiesand identify which ones are missing. Feedback Before delving into logistics, cultural preparation must first take place to achieve the best business outcome. We all know that of course, but aspects of the why, what and how of board engagement in strategy are still contested in theory and practice. View in article, This article is an independent publication and has not been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Apple Inc. iPad is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. Further, being a board member is not a full-time role, and board members likely have multiple other commitments that constrain the amount of time and energy they can spend on board activities, which might make it difficult for the CEO to attract the boards focused attention. Developed a Technology Strategic Roadmap and identified $6 million of year-over-year savings through operational efficiencies and revenue growth. Not answered Accountability is an important element of an effective governance team. c. a basis to determine if the goals need to be changed, d. an idea of what trends and changes are occurring Thats not always the case, said a corporate governance professor. community activists, funding bodies, etc) No correct answer from the options provided d. be valuable to customers. I think there are multiple ways to get to the same place. Others insisted that CEOs who were also chairs should give up their chair roles to be able to leverage their boards more effectively. Managements implementation of board strategies and the board serving as the. How can boards strengthen governance to accelerate their ESG journeys? b. Board management software, like BoardPro, provides a collaborative online space for drawing up strategy plans where they can be challenged and tested. has been saved, Seven steps to a more strategic board Active Scotland Delivery Group. The goal is not realistic. CEOs should also remember that, in a strategic conversation, boards will not always be able to resolve conflicts by arriving at compelling answers or comprehensive solutions. In such cases, it can be more important to agree on well-defined actions. Communication is a vital component of good corporate governance. Additional Support for Learning Implementation Group. Not flaggedFlag question Question 38 Please see www.deloitte.com/about to learn more about our global network of member firms. Train your staff on how to manage change for next time. Boards play an integral role by serving as advisers to senior management and the overall organization. a. pragmatic b. charismatic c. inspirational d. transformational and more. The correct answer is: It is an objective more appropriate for a marketing plan. The correct answer is: leader emergence Boards are in a unique position to pressure-test management's decision making, ensuring that the strategy is tailored to each business environment and continually probing key assumptions to make sure they remain valid. b. dormant director With a strong partnership between the board and CEO, what at first may feel like difficult conversations can become revelatory dialogues, surfacing ideas and insights that might otherwise stay buried from a desire to smooth tension and maintain civility. Capabilities are highly mobile across firms. b. a duty of care 'sBz 77M 0C/BQ+>`c@E>v3B S%E12p*d*l(~*pDu9VP}5"FG"PwTNJbsN%R6TEV0!C%,QT2;g')gFUs*}IYP.QpTyNr%OB[.|]~uN? But when it comes to the boards potential to contribute to strategy, our interviews made it clear that most boards are not naturally positioned to drive this shift. xref The correct answer is: strategies A friend who serves on a number of consequential public company boards came to my office not long ago to ask my opinion on something that had become a contentious issue across his boards. 0000002073 00000 n d. Risk assessment. Background: The Veterans Health Administration (VA) Grant and Per Diem case management "aftercare" program provides 6 months of case management for homeless-experienced veterans (HEVs) undergoing housing transitions. Marked out of 1. That is less bad but renders the board largely useless in strategy. 10. Any self-respecting and competent CEO would understand and resign before being fired because a real CEO is in charge of strategy or is not actually the chief executive. A huge precondition is that you have directors who know what theyre talking about. brands, as well as the competitive environment, consumer trends, and other marketplace trends Not answered Mid-level Select one: Implementation, evaluation and control of a company's strategic plan is essential to operating a successful business. 3) Establish a policy based governance system. Select one: Marked out of 1. Not surprisingly, the most vehement complaints we heard from directors were about the seemingly impossible volume of information that board members are expected to digest. b. mission statement analysis 1. When you are forced to think things through, you are better able to document as well as communicate the plan to team members, upper management, and get everyone on board. Feedback c. Investing in the company at the lower desired rate of return of investment. c. opportunities Question 2 Set deadlines for the change. c. Does not have any other relationships with the company other than his or her directorship Benjamin, a managing director with Deloitte Consulting LLP, and a co-leader of Deloittes Chief Executive Program. Question 36 One-on-one conversations, said a CEO with whom we spoke, give a CEO opportunities to have casual conversations and open dialogue without the formality, pressure, intensity, and performance assessment of a board meeting. Beyond merely building an interpersonal bond, sharing information with board members throughout the year helps them feel like trusted colleagues and reduces the risk of surpriseswhich is important because being taken by surprise can really sour [a boards] relationship with the CEO, whether or not the CEO had anything to do with it. Some CEOs email periodic updates that cover high and low points of the week or month, or weekly Sunday memos to the board that incorporate news about developments in the industry or current articles of interest. The fact is that both pieces are critical to success. Marked out of 1. b. The Board's Relationship with Management It's in the board's best interest to develop good working relationships with managers. Core competencies Not answered, Select one: Grade 0 out of 100. Many directors emphasized that CEOs need to interact with board members between meetings. Download the Deloitte Insights and Dow Jones app, Subscribe to receive more related content. Facilitate the board experience, not just the board meeting, 5. d. Intervening board. d. goals d. covering director Question 1 a. The correct answer is: Ones ability to be flexible and think strategically. Question 4 Ideally, as staff and board engage in the process, they commit to measurable goals, approve priorities for implementation, and also make a plan to revisit the strategy on an ongoing basis as the internal and external environments change. Our interviews strongly suggest that the absence of fearless transparency may present an even greater risk for the CEO. Not flaggedFlag question c. integrated marketing communications (IMC) 1. Feedback Ratification of management decisions and minimal liability defines which best practices board structure? Question text The strategy comes to it fully baked and all it can say is either: "Yes, we agree" or "No, we don't." The latter is, plainly and simply, a no-confidence vote and leads directly to the same place. When a resource or capability is valuable, rare, costly to imitate, and nonsubstitutable firms may In reality, the board experience outside the formal board sessions is equally importantor even more so, as some of our interviewees believed. 0000006811 00000 n HTKo0Wh-]!CTmOa,p(W.9UmAb&ceP.%,s@4y6PO`#|wPL/} >W=j7!_c#n|v6:}E6kUK)]VkvbNS@*V.x"s#_\F4W)0;I7\0g(miR v`Ll 0000001198 00000 n Not answered Question 30 Development and implementation of Investment Policy Statements and Procedures; adherence to risk management, compliance and audit frameworks resulting in successful outcomes for regulatory and. CEOs shouldnt forget to set the tone internally with their executive teams as well. In today's disruptive marketplace, many CEOs and business unit leaders have learned that they can no longer shield their organizations from ambiguity. The primary responsibilities of the board of directors include all but which of the following : Which of the following transactions would increase Cash and cash equivalents and increase Non-current liabilities ? Feedback The board is also responsible for setting the organisation's strategic aims, providing the require leadership to put these strategic aims into effect, supervise the management of the. trailer To the full teams of both the Chief Executive Program and the Center for Board Effectiveness, thank you for making this collaboration possible. Not flaggedFlag question List the principles and practices for ensuring the effectiveness of the, compensation committee as recommended by The Council of Institutional, Briefly discuss the criteria or benchmarks used by the compensation committee. b. return-on-investment (ROI) H|TKo8WQV_"@,PA`%h4^3Ru}/aypZ)PlUon-'xz3Mr`Q?XX%2BZZZ8u}=Tnjyn~}us UJXP!0PFI,m3epR;K>u}sbAhL'CTrU{ 7cv}^ZDA8"7wP g80)SA n ?"'[35R A board management software helps streamline meeting processes, and it helps keep the discussions, documents and other information remain secure and confidential. management implementation of board strategies and the board serving. b. Not answered There may not, for example, be a unitary board. Prepare the Organization for Change. The correct answer is: risk of competitors imitating innovations Managements implementation of board strategies and the board serving as the key decision maker Strategic Management Page-179 Lesson-1: Strategy Implementation: The Basic Issues Learning Objectives: After studying this lesson, you should be able to: Understand the importance of strategy implementation vis--vis strategy formulation. Question text Feedback Marked out of 1. Not answered | EY - Global Trending 8 transformative actions to take in 2023 16 Dec 2022 Consulting How can slowing climate change accelerate your financial performance? Board structures may differ among family-owned SMEs. Not answered are best associated with: Select one: Feedback Not answered Feedback Not answered One of the most critical aspects of facilitating the board experience is the thoughtful curation and preparation of information. d. Marketing Why todays best leaders are flexible, not steadfast, Deloitte Insights, October 17, 2017. A strategic planning process identifies strategies that will best enable a nonprofit to advance its mission. Financial resources are made available to the board for all of the following. A lot of the thinking and views that get shaped are ultimately the result of conversations in between meetings, observed one interviewee. Marked out of 1. d. Chief executive officer. The board's role is to advise ministers on the implementation of reform across children's social care . Not answered Marked out of 1. She has over 15 years of experience working with clients at the intersection of strategy, thought leadership, and executive development in the service of individual and organizational growth. On others, the prevailing view is the extreme opposite: their job is to wait for management to come forward with its strategy and to either approve it or not. If the only times youre talking to the board is four to five times a year when theyre in the boardroom, thats not good, said one. d. Did not attend a school supported by the company Not answered A compliance culture can be promoted through the establishment of a centralised __________. b. a slow start at forming customer relationships and customer loyalty Maureen Bujno is a managing director in Deloitte LLPs Center for Board Effectiveness. Through the strategic management process, it allows the organization to formulate sets of decisions, actions and measures - collectively known as strategies - that are subsequently implemented in order to achieve organizational goals and objectives. Marked out of 1. At the end of the day, then, it is incumbent on CEOs to take the lead in cultivating the shift to a strategic board. Learn about the 4 key leadership roles of the Board and how to maximize the effectiveness of the governance system. It can more easily make a great decision: either the CEO has taken the advice and come back with a better strategy still, or the CEO has failed to take the advice and come up with something uncompelling. _________ management sets the companys mission, objectives, broad strategies, and policies. How to develop a winning strategyand put it to work. As one CEO shared, When I took over [as CEO], it was clear to me that the executive team wanted as little interaction with the board as possible. K#~>^u&vLfQ]m0p/Hr%r5*+2n |h0. Not flaggedFlag question b. missions If it didnt fit into the box, it didnt go to the board. It also enables the company to respond appropriately, coherently, and quickly to Time taken 1 min 24 secs Question text Marked out of 1. Not answered Question 22 She also serves as the governance liaison to several of Deloittes most significant and complex clients, and provides education to boards and audit committees. Question 18 Question text Q:@,qE : ~I}PTo`DW6'a+JSrh/P|%=8?h0UJB_htI'e('zF%)rpD$u*d]@hEvjx$ r6#>$YHxa4:) 3CT=-W7oTPgM6%*+m '4Ky).3r- thUi24.fbX :N.}%|Z4'|8> dx.&N'd)r5MC=\uI#%{4RNhVf>MoM),02Y87f[aMG8=&AZs;68%[ rk What is the proper role of a board with respect to company strategy? d. internal/external analysis a. Active Scotland Development Group. Instead of these extremes, the right approach is an iterative process in which the CEO is in charge, because it is the CEOs job to formulate strategy, but the CEO wisely gets the maximum amount of advice from the board assuming that the board has useful insights. Management's implementation of board strategies and the board serving as the key decision maker are best associated with: a. Certifying board.b. Actively and favorably doing business with the company. Which concept is a measurement that shows whether, in general, the costs of conducting the The correct answer is: Capabilities are highly mobile across firms. Participation on a board is too often thought about as merely a series of board meetings. For CEOs, the board of the future is strategic, 4. It will be apparent that the board's role can and should differ dramatically in these four development phases. They can resist the urge to present only fully formed strategies, and instead mobilize the board around ideas that might still only be half-baked. Question 24 . About Highly experienced wealth management professional, specialising in delivery of strategic financial wellbeing and engagement initiatives. In the first step of strategic management, identifying the current strategies and goals provides In this environment, its no longer enough for boards to simply be check the box boards, or even solid and reliable executors of their fiduciary duties. What is a strategic design for how a company intends to profit from its strategies, work processes, 0000004068 00000 n Select one: How as a director do you effectively navigate through that? Started on Sunday, 17 May 2020, 6:48 PM Not answered, Select one: The correct answer is: operating board Adult Social Care: independent review. consumer market from 10 percent to 15 percent in one year. What is wrong with this advertising It is important, when discussions grow heated, to accept and name the tension instead of avoiding it or, worse, allowing it to simmer and grow under the table. Select one: See how we connect, collaborate, and drive impact across various locations. The linked legal concepts of support for claims and sufficiency of teaching govern the relationship between what is claimed and the content of the description . Policy Governance, an integrated board leadership paradigm created by Dr. John Carver, is a groundbreaking model of governance designed to empower boards of directors to fulfill their obligation of accountability for the organizations they govern. The most successful boards are able to combine strategic vision with effective group dynamics in order to make the best decisions possible. a. important information about an organizations specific resources and capabilities Not answered 0000008690 00000 n business-- the investment-- are more than matched by the revenue produced in return? The more CEOs can develop a profound understanding of each board members personality and temperament, and then influence the design of experiences or interactions that encourage each director to fully engage and productively contribute throughout his or her tenure with the organization, the better the probable results. State Finished c. business model Departmental Board. ________________ are the organizations major value-creating skills, capabilities, and resources that The strategic plan addresses the what and why of activities, but implementation addresses the who, where, when, and how. 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