Business Continuity and Crisis Management Consultants
A culture of resilience is not a poster in the break room or a line in the values statement. It is what your people do in the first hour after something breaks, before anyone has told them what to do. Your executives build that culture, or erode it, every time they react to bad news. …
Building a Culture of Resilience: Leadership Tips for Business ContinuityRead More
Disaster preparedness for critical infrastructure is mostly a dependency problem. A substation, a water plant, or a hospital rarely fails on its own. It fails because something it depends on failed first: the power, the fuel truck, the network, the one vendor nobody listed. Plan for those dependencies and you are prepared. Plan only for …
Disaster Preparedness for Critical Infrastructure: A Guide to Building ResilienceRead More
Mid-March 2020, Spring Break, COVID-19 is being discussed in the news and we are about to go to Florida for a long weekend. Should we go? It’s just a long weekend, and they won’t close everything down, right? Wrong. While in Florida, all the parks closed one by one during our last couple of days …
We all know that a success factor for any professional is the breadth and depth of their network. Maybe it’s time for a new job, or you are considering switching careers. Doing so would create an opportunity to reboot your professional network. We need to be less passive to reenergize our professional networks. The advice …
As a female professional with two young daughters, I’m always fascinated by research about women in the workplace. In 2018, I wrote an article about women in business continuity management leadership roles. I was curious about what has changed and stayed the same over the last five years. Recent Information about Women in The Workforce …
As a woman who has spent nearly her entire career in the field of Business Continuity – and now as a Business Continuity Consultant – I’ve always been interested in how few women have risen to executive positions in business continuity and related fields. A couple of studies around Women in Business Continuity Management (BCM) …
You may have missed our Managing Uncertainty Podcast episode from December 26th on To BIA or Not to BIA, where my colleagues discuss the trend of not completing a Business Impact Analysis (BIA). This was a follow-up podcast to a previous episode of Managing Uncertainty that discussed the Traditional BIA. Both podcasts are great and really …
Why failing to validate your business impact analysis results is a huge mistakeRead More
