Overview: Emerging Issues
What’s next? Nobody knows for sure. But the next big thing in BCP might have to do with regulations and standards, establishing meaningful public-private partnerships, securing the supply chain, or the disaster du jour, be it the next Hurricane Katrina, an act of terrorism, or a pandemic more potent than H1N1.
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Regional Resilience — ChicagoFIRST Style
1/30/2012 Continuity Insights - Brian Tishuk, Executive Director at ChicagoFIRST, speaks with CI about the organization’s unique take on regional resilience, the work done to prioritize internet bandwidth during events such as a pandemic, credentialing and preparations for the NATO G8 summit.
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Is It Time To Shred Your Contact List?
1/30/2012 Continuity Insights - With the explosive growth of social media in the last several years, a new paradigm in contact management has emerged. Each major platform has tools to segment or categorize your contacts into groups as a means to filter and manage specific content that is useful for those members. They also allow for document sharing and real-time status updates on team recovery activities. This is a business continuity manager’s dream.
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Going 'All In' With Your Supply Chain
1/20/2012 Continuity Insights - Best practice approaches to strategic supplier relationships offer tremendous potential. One of the most effective such practices involves taking a broader view of the supplier’s impacts on the customer organization. As part of various consulting projects, we’ve systematically mapped the way a supplier’s product connects to the customer’s operations and processes, trying to identify and quantify the “adjacency costs” that are connected to the supplier’s product.
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The 7 Biggest Problems With Forbes’ Article On Disaster-Ready Cities
1/16/2012 Continuity Insights - As Forbes enjoys compiling lists so much, I thought it appropriate to compile a list of why the article on most- and least-prepared cities is fairly meaningless. Take a look at the CDC’s report on its Cities Readiness Initiative and it immediately becomes clear that this ranking isn’t all that Forbes makes it out to be.
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Using Social Media In A Crisis: Five Questions A Resilient Organization Must Answer
1/9/2012 Continuity Insights - In order to deal with a myriad of stakeholders who increasingly turn to the Internet in order to be heard, every organization must understand potential and existing financial, managerial, operational, and reputational risks it faces, how its stakeholders impact and view these risks, and how social media can be utilized to interact with stakeholders in order to minimize the risks.
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