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"Polycrisis" The Current State of the World
Global uncertainty over the past few years has birthed several new or recently rediscovered words. The first word was “permacrisis”, the Collins Dictionary’s word of the year for 2022. This year the world is abuzz with the latest new word – Polycrisis.
Global risks have shifted with a significant focus on three issues. Esteemed crisis management specialist, Regina Phelps, explains “polycrisis” and lays out actions that resilience professionals should be doing in response.
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Who are Your Favorite Subject Matter Experts? The HUB Wants to Know
In our 38 years in the disaster/continuity/resilience industry we have met a lot of gurus -- yep, our database is large. But we think you might know best. Who are the innovators and critical thinkers in the areas of disaster recovery, operational resilience, business continuity, crisis management, enterprise risk management, GRC, emergency management, cybersecurity and data protection? Whose insight do you look to for advice related to your industry vertical or guidance for your organization’s silos – IT, human concerns, facilities, communications, risk management etc.? Would you email us and share WHO and WHY? Oh, and by the way, feel free to name yourself and let us know your areas of expertise. In the year ahead, the HUB aims to bring together the best subject matter experts in the industry.
Email us >>Learning Your Lesson: What we can take away from high-profile business continuity failures
From stressed legacy systems to defective or insufficient backups, companies often ignore critical points of failure.
Read MoreTeam Rubicon, a veteran-led non-profit organization, seeks to both help people after disasters and provide comradeship and purpose to veterans
Founded in response to the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti, the organization has since launched over 1,200 operations both domestically and around the world.
Read MoreBang for Your Buck: What steps can you take to ensure your limited cybersecurity budget is up to the task of protecting your data
A recent report finds 27% of companies believe their cybersecurity budget isn’t sufficient.
Read MoreA Natural Resilience: Engineers and architects look to structures in nature to help build resilience
Examining structures like nest, hives, and shells can provide insight into buildings that are better able to handle natural disasters.
Read MoreUnder Lock and Key: A major role for cybersecurity is supporting document management
Leaking of documents can easily result in exposure of critical information and data.
Read MoreTaking the High Road: A new system designed to support first responders can help minimize response times
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The HUB Brings the Industry Together
Don’t miss this video that describes how the HUB platform is leveraged to bring together the silos to build resilient organizations and communities in the private and public sectors. The vibrant ecosystem is not simply a web site but rather a global hub for professionals to connect and collaborate.
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BCI Horizon Scan Report 2023
BCI introduces the 2023 BCI Horizon Scan Report. This year’s report falls at a critical point. Organizations are facing new challenges and, even now, ‘post-COVID’ seems a term of the past. That said, organizations are still facing legacy challenges related to COVID-19 which is best exemplified by [occupational] health incidents causing more disruptions to organizations globally than any other type of incident. Organizations are still battling with the challenge of ensuring a productive, yet nurturing, working environment, while others are allowing staff to ‘work from anywhere’ with little regard for work-area risk assessments.
The report uses survey responses and structured interviews with senior resilience professionals to provide an in-depth analysis of this critical area.
Read the report >>"SNAPSHOT” Organizational Resilience Capability Assessment from ICOR
Between November 2022 and June 2023, ICOR provided global organizations the opportunity to complete a “SNAPSHOT” Organizational Resilience Capability Assessment to help them to better understand what is meant by organizational resilience versus the more operational view of resilience, as well as to give them an idea of how they measure up against other organizations globally.
Because building resilience must be intentional, measuring current capabilities is an essential first step in the process. ICOR’s Organizational Resilience Capability Assessment (ORCA) tool is meant to be used by organizations to measure to what extent they demonstrate the capabilities and behaviors present in more resilient organizations. The ORCA capabilities are organized into 5 Dimensions supported by 17 Strategies. Each Dimension contains the Strategies and Capabilities related to the general criteria of that Dimension.
Read the report >>Operational Resilience Can Be a Competitive Advantage
This Conference Board podcast episode of CEO Perspectives discusses how organizations can make operational resilience a competitive advantage. Tune in to find out:
- What is operational resilience?
- How do companies and other organizations cultivate it?
- What would it look like to simplify resiliency and make it more accessible?
- How can CEOs themselves be more resilient?
- What five disruptions are resiliency professionals calling out as ones to watch?
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