Most resilience programs don’t fail because the plans are wrong. They fail because the people running them make the work more complicated than it needs to be, and never tie it back to what the business actually cares about. Over the past years, I’ve watched multiple experienced, capable executives run resilience programs inside large, complex …
Resilience Is a Profit Center, Not a Cost Center
Jackie King, executive director of Ibec Global, recently argued that resilience is a profit issue, not just a risk issue (per Business Plus). She is right. And most boardrooms still do not act like it. Here is the claim, stated plainly. Resilience is a profit center. The work you fund to keep operating through disruption …
Four Days in the Office Won’t Fix a Product Problem
General Mills announced yesterday that most of its North American headquarters employees will be in the office four days a week starting September 8. The current return to office mandate is three. CEO Jeff Harmening tied the change directly to disappointing business performance. The implicit logic: if our people were in the office one more …
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The Cyber Threat Landscape Has Shifted Under You
The cyberattack your organization planned for in 2024 is not the cyberattack you will face in 2026. That is not hyperbole. It is what the data shows, and it is what we see in the resilience and crisis work we do with clients across financial services, healthcare, technology, and critical infrastructure. The change is not …