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The Supply Chain Threat You May Not Have Seen Coming
Power-hungry data centers and other risks threaten supply chains’ access to reliable electric energy. A key challenge for supply chain organizations is to anticipate, prepare for, and mitigate risks to a company’s operations and [...]
Business Continuity Theatre #6: Resilience Is a Behavior — Not a Framework
By now, a pattern should be unmistakable. Business Continuity doesn’t fail because organizations lack standards. It doesn’t fail because plans aren’t written. And it certainly doesn’t fail because people don’t care. It fails when behavior [...]
Business Continuity Theatre #5: If We Can’t Articulate Our Value, We Won’t Be Valued
There is an uncomfortable question sitting beneath this entire series. If we cannot clearly articulate the value of our programs — whatever label we put on them: Crisis and Emergency Management, Business Continuity, Resilience, [...]
Business Continuity Theatre #4: When Plans Are Cheap, Proof Becomes Everything
We are entering a new phase of Business Continuity. One where a BC plan that would comfortably pass an audit — RTOs assigned, recovery steps defined, resources mapped, dependencies described — can be generated [...]
Business Continuity Theatre #3: What’s Really Holding Us Back? How Change Takes Root.
One thing has become clear through the conversations on this series: there is no shortage of appetite for change in our profession. People can see what isn’t working. They have ideas for how business [...]
Business Continuity Theatre #2: Top Management “Buy-In” Isn’t the Problem. Ownership Is!
One of the most persistent myths in Business Continuity is that top management buy-in is the hard part. It isn’t. In most organizations, senior leaders will readily agree that Business Continuity — resilience, emergency [...]
Business Continuity Theatre #1: The Real Work Sits Where the Authority Doesn’t — and What We Can Do About It
Sometimes Business Continuity goes off track before it even starts. By the time most organizations realize their program isn’t fit for purpose, the damage has already been done. Not in a crisis. Much earlier. [...]
Business Continuity Theatre Intro: Why Our Standards Are Stronger Than Our Practice
There is no shortage of guidance on how to “do” Business Continuity well. Between ISO 22301 and the BCI Good Practice Guidelines, we have mature, globally recognized frameworks that clearly describe leadership accountability, strategic [...]
Proactive Resilience: Moving Beyond Recovery to Capability
Why This Matters Resilience professionals are often asked, “Can we recover?”. But the better question is, “Can we continue?” This article is written for continuity and resilience leaders who want a practical way to [...]
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Organizational Resilience and BCM Revisited
When I wrote this article in 2019, I was searching for clarity. Like many of my peers, I was excited by the promise of "Organizational Resilience" but frustrated by the lack of substance behind [...]