Storytelling to Promote Action
In their PrepTalk, The Big One podcast team shares why they developed “The Big One: Your Survival Guide” and how storytelling can help compel people to take action and prepare for disasters. The Big One [...]
Living with Water: How the Netherlands Prevents Flood Disasters
In his PrepTalk, Jan Peelen tells the story of the Netherland’s historic battle with flooding and shares how the Dutch are learning to live with water. Peelen explains that understanding how a community uses and [...]
Design the Perfect Business Continuity Training Exercise
Introduction When you go about designing the perfect exercise, there is a lot more going on “behind the scenes” than just finding a great narrative. In fact, the narrative is often the last thing I [...]
Auditing Your BCP and DR program – Just How Resilient is Your Organization?
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 [...]
Strategic Crisis Leadership: Being an Effective Leader in the Midst of Chaos
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. [...]
Enterprise Resilience Saved the Day During COVID. Does Anyone Realize It?
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 [...]
10 Tips for Selling Business Continuity to Upper Management
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 [...]
The Post-covid Landscape Could Change the Enterprise Resilience Profession
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 [...]
Preparedness Reforms for a More Resilient Nation
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 [...]
Effectively Integrating Crisis Management for Future Resilience
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 [...]
COVID-19: Pandemic Planning Phases – Where are we and where are we going?
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 [...]
Coronavirus: Assessing Risk and Planning Initiatives
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 [...]