Critics call BCM bureaucratic. Supporters call it essential. Editor’s Note: The “does BCM actually work?” debate has simmered in this field for years — usually settled by opinion, war stories, or whichever side has [...]
Your business impact analysis could have a hidden assumption: the systems your critical processes depend on have predictable behavior. If you are a continuity or resilience practitioner whose organization now runs AI in those [...]
A working guide to hard-skill infrastructure, paradoxical leadership, and shaping the narrative before the narrative shapes you This article is for CEOs, board members, and senior crisis management practitioners who need a working answer [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]