When it hits the fan, the spotlight is suddenly shining on you – the BCP guru. And when that time comes (and it will) you’re only going to look as good as your crisis management capabilities. Sure you can build plans, but do you have the real-life, practical know-how to do what it takes to get the job done when continuity goes from maybe someday to right now?

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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.
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.
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.
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.
CI Podcast 004: Pandemic Preparedness
1/3/2012 Continuity Insights
The use of vaccines such as Tamiflu, lessons learned from recent pandemics and the emergence of H5N1 are among the topics covered in the December podcast.

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Is It Time To Shred Your Contact List?
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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