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 [...]
What would you do in the following three situations? Crisis Leadership Moment #1 Imagine that your employees decide to take action against the executives and the company. It starts with a sickout on a Friday. [...]
Earlier this year I discussed, on the Risk and Resilience Hub, the emergence of Covid-19 and the affects it might have on the resilience profession. I had hoped to have seen the worst of this [...]
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 [...]