Enterprise Risk Management
Action on Climate Resilience is Business Critical
As the impacts of climate change bite, business efforts to reduce emissions must now be matched by action to strengthen climate resilience. Here I set out four action areas where companies can better protect themselves and others, while seizing opportunities to market resilience-enhancing products. Many businesses are acting on climate ... Read more
Continuity Insights 2023: The Urgent Need For Business Continuity Plans
From April 24-26, business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) professionals gathered in Minneapolis for the 21st Annual Continuity Insights Management Conference to learn about how to ensure their organization’s operational resilience. At this successful show, seasoned professionals exchanged ideas, actively engaged with speakers, and made valuable new connections. The value of ... Read more
The Resilience Revolution Is Here
Business leaders face an unprecedented level of disruption and uncertainty in today’s rapidly changing environment. From geopolitical instability and the lingering COVID-19 pandemic to climate crises, cyber threats and faltering supply chains – a multitude of external macro forces are converging on the market. Organisations are also facing heightened levels ... Read more
Florida Opens Emergency Economic Help Center For Flooded Zone
Gov. Ron DeSantis hasn’t yet toured the damage a midweek deluge wreaked on Fort Lauderdale and other parts of Broward County, but the administration is opening a state-sponsored center to help those affected in the emergency. A one-stop resource site is ready to help with business damage assessment, business continuity and job ... Read more
How Good Is ChatGPT At Answering Questions About Business Continuity And Resilience?
ChatGPT has never been far from the headlines over the past few months. At Continuity Central we thought it would be interesting to ask it some of the common questions we get asked about business continuity and resilience. See what you think of the answers… Read the full story on ... Read more
The Rising Tide Of Third-Party Risk Management
In an increasingly globalized and interconnected world, supply chains have grown in complexity. It’s an accelerating trend that poses significant risks to organizations globally. In today’s volatile operating environment, supplier performance is harder to gauge, inflation harder to contain, and disruption across the world harder to predict. Challenges can emerge ... Read more
Fraud In A Short-Attention Economy
Brands are fighting on two fronts today, to retain discerning consumers, while protecting and growing their business in a challenging economic climate. Nowhere is this more keenly felt than in e-commerce. “Quick commerce” services for food deliveries and taxis are setting the new standard for customer experiences, and people today ... Read more
Let’s Talk Operational Resilience
Do you have questions about operational resilience? At this year’s Continuity Insights Management Conference, April 24-26 in Minneapolis, MN, you’ll have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with operational resilience professionals and have your questions answered. Reserve your time to meet with these industry professionals: Robert Fucito, Corporate Resiliency and Crisis ... Read more
Ensuring Business Continuity with Managed IT Disaster Recovery
A business continuity plan is essential to any company’s information technology (IT) infrastructure. Without a plan, recovering from disasters and other disruptions that threaten operations would be difficult. To ensure business continuity, managed IT disaster recovery (MDR) is your solution. Due to the many benefits managed IT offers, the industry ... Read more
What business executives don’t understand about IT
When I graduated from college, I worked as an assembler language programmer for Sears. At that time, Sears was the world’s largest retailer and it was just beginning to use the new System 360 from IBM. IT was looked upon as a group of techies that performed some unexplainable job ... Read more