Operational Resilience: Is It Just Business Continuity Done Properly?
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 [...]
Agility: The Key to Success in 2021+ New Ways of Thinking
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 [...]
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 — What’s Changed since the 2006 Bird Flu Scare?
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 [...]
The Engaged Matrix Model of Organizational Resilience
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 [...]
Infectious Diseases: The Threat to Your Business and Community
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 [...]