The number one challenge facing BCP and COOP professionals today remains getting upper management buy-in. The events of September 11 and COVID-19 have raised awareness of the exposures, but there still are organizations without a [...]
Business continuity home-working techniques developed originally for use in disaster recovery have rapidly become a mainstream business model in a global crisis. This is the first blog (of a 3-part series) that I have produced [...]
It’s been a little over a year since we launched the Risk and Resilience HUB in “beta” mode. The HUB is a digital platform leveraged to bring together the silos of BC, EM, DR, GRC [...]
This is the second part of a 2-part article. In the first article, we identified key gaps in our ability to effectively marshal national resilience. These gaps are focused in three major areas: lack of [...]
This is the first of a two-part article. Part 2 will be published in the May 6 eGUIDE. In light of the increasingly complex and diverse threats facing the United States and the world in [...]
One question I hear from clients every day is “where are we in this pandemic and where are we going?” It is an important question and one that deserves a careful and thoughtful answer. The [...]
Due to the non-static nature of risk, exposures constantly change. Mitigation has the effect of altering the risk so that a new exposure is created. Mitigation buffers risk temporarily. One thing that is not taken into account when [...]
Over the past few years I have noticed an increasing level of conversation around BCM’s (Business Continuity Management) value, and an angst that we, as an industry, are losing our relevancy. I have seen a [...]
The Wuhan Coronavirus continues to spread across the globe. As of January 27, 2020 5:00 AM Pacific Time, there are over 2,804 cases in ten countries and 81 deaths (all in China). Over 50 million [...]
I am writing this blog while rain pours down outside of my office, much as it has done for much of the past 3 months in the United Kingdom. Many parts of the country are [...]
For many years the practice of Business Continuity (BC) was reasonably straight-forward, if often misunderstood. To most corporate employees, it was viewed as what we do when things go badly wrong with IT or premises. [...]
Risks such as natural disasters, terrorism, industrial incidents and pandemics dominated our concerns in the past. Although they are still important, the main focus for resilience professionals is moving towards technology disruption and risks emerging [...]