Risk assessments are probably the most common activities within the risk management profession and there is a very fine line between being a total waste of time and a useful risk management approach. So what are the most [...]
Program governance is the framework upon which a program’s strategy is defined, agreed upon, and monitored. Have you ever wondered what compels organizations to develop these documents? This article will give you a better understanding of: The [...]
Introduction to BCP and DR Being able to respond (i.e. continue critical business processes) during a major disaster and recover normal operations efficiently afterwards is a critical success factor for all organizations. An effective business [...]
Follow simple steps to protect your company’s reputation in the midst of crisis. In many industries, reputation and “goodwill” represents the majority of value in the business itself. For many executives and business owners, this [...]
When organizations embark on the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) journey, one of the first (…and biggest) mistakes they make is to simply cut and paste one of the common risk management standards or frameworks and [...]
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 [...]