More than ever, established organizations are aware of the genuine possibility of being upended by newcomers with radically innovative products. Nokia, Kodak, Blockbuster, and Yahoo regularly feature among big-name companies that got burnt under the [...]
What have we learned about crisis leadership during this global health emergency? Two things have really stood out. First, it highlighted the need for information – situational awareness – as perhaps never before. Second, it [...]
Occasionally, I examine local or national events with a risk lens to see what went right and wrong, such as this example of poor vendor risk management in my local community. Doing so can help us better [...]
Sarah Cooke's zoom conversation with James Green, award-winning risk management thought leader, about the impact of last winter’s outage on credit unions has takeaways for every business. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom [...]
Pop quiz hotshot. You just finished that Business Continuity eLearning module in record time. Did you: Skim read and take pot shots at the questions until you passed? Hit up Claudia on Teams to see [...]
The asymmetric threat has left the building, and the attack surface area has exponentially increased. Today, there are four billion people with forty billion devices connected to the internet, and these numbers are expected to [...]
Publisher's Note: Business continuity veteran Charlie Maclean-Bristol looks at what operational resilience really means and how it compares with business continuity. What do you think? This week a couple of things have come together to [...]
Continuity and Resilience- two words that could track to the same destination albeit, varied in arrival time. According to Merriam-Webster, the definition for Continuity is: uninterrupted connection, succession, or union. Using this same resource, the [...]
Business resilience is an organizational imperative, not just to safeguard the enterprise, but its resulting cause and effect on employees, customers, shareholders, partners, reputation, public/private partners, regulatory bodies, and many other entities. Continuity Insights’ [...]
Peter Hobbs & Peter Power have teamed up to design and deliver a series of workshops under The Agile Leadership Series banner. Their aim is to offer practical guidance to organizations and individuals who recognize [...]
Publishers' Note: We have had the good fortune to cross paths with author and keynote speaker Peter Power many times, over more decades than we want to admit, at disaster recovery, business continuity and resilience [...]
In her PrepTalk, Dr. Carolyn Kousky demonstrates the essential role of insurance in disaster recovery. She explains why not enough people have insurance coverage and offers suggestions for how the public and private sectors can [...]