Business Continuity Risk

Many companies have been running themselves ragged in trying to come up with and quickly implement a comprehensive plan for adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, given the current [...]

You might not believe it, but sometimes companies are more interested in looking good than in being good. This is especially true with regard to their ability to recover from business [...]

The new decade will bring massive change to the practice of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), the field of identifying and preparing for risks and hazards that can interfere with an [...]

Few organizations think about risk in a rational manner, which commonly leads to unnecessary expenditures and dangerous gaps in their business continuity planning. In today’s post, we’re going to [...]

Most organizations continue to devote insufficient thought and resources to the task of assessing and managing risk in their supply chains. This leaves them vulnerable to disruptions in their [...]

When you’re completing a jigsaw puzzle, it is a lot easier to grasp how the pieces fit together if you have a picture of the completed puzzle to go by. By the same token, it would be easier for [...]

Do you know how, in your non-business life, there is a difference between “friends” and “Facebook friends”? There is something similar in business continuity when it comes to third-party vendors. [...]

Do you wear your seatbelt when driving or riding in a car? If you are like over 85 percent of the people in the United States, then you do, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety [...]

Last week we talked about the importance of finding out management’s risk tolerance and creating a business continuity program which will keep risk for the organization within those limits. [...]

When your organization isn’t risk literate, the result can often resemble a horror movie; when it is, you can save the day. In some ways, being a business continuity management consultant [...]