Invisible Programs Get Cut: How BC/DR Metrics Change the Conversation
I was in the room when a DR program that had taken three years to build got cut in an afternoon. At Land O’Lakes, a budget meeting turned into a postmortem for a program [...]
Why the Global Resilience Exchange Exists
The environment in which organizations operate is increasingly complex, interconnected, and global in nature. Cyber threats, supply chain disruption, climate-related events, geopolitical instability, regulatory change, and accelerating technological development continue to reshape operational risk. [...]
Reimagining Corporate Business Continuity in the Middle East Conflict
The disruption caused by the war in Iran and closure of the Strait of Hormuz has implications for business worldwide and the ripple effect has yet to fully impact operations in many locations. This [...]
Fourth-Party Risk: The Blind Spot Most Programs Never See Coming
Your critical vendor passed every assessment. Strong financials. Clean audit. Solid SLA. What you didn't know — couldn't know, with a standard assessment — is that they rely on a single cloud provider for [...]
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 [...]