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Looking Back to Move Forward: What 2025 Reinforced About Crisis Preparedness
As the year draws to a close, it is natural for organizations to reflect on what they accomplished, what they endured, and what still feels unresolved. For many leadership teams,…
Pandemic Business Continuity Planning – Session Two
During our first discussion on the need for a Pandemic Business Continuity Plan we emphasized that planning for a pandemic is different than planning for other contingencies. The primary challenge you will encounter during a pandemic is not how to deal with the loss of infrastructure and communications,…
Pandemic Business Continuity Planning
Are you prepared for how a pandemic might affect your organization? During the past decade we have witness a rise of new sub-types of influenza viruses, including some which have shown the ability to be transferred from animal to animal, then animal to human, and finally human-to-human. The result…
A Look at the Security Implications for the Brazil World Cup
In March of this year, the main weekly magazine published in Brazil (VEJA) ran as its cover story a report prepared by the country’s intelligence agency (ABIN), outlining the six major threats carrying a potential to disrupt the upcoming FIFA World Cup, to be hosted in twelve capital cities of…
New Englanders, Are We Prepared?
After the recent historic flooding in the Balkans, it made me wonder about how prepared I was as a business and home owner here in New England, US. According to CNN, Serbia had three months of rain in just three days. Are we prepared for our very own 100 year…
Five Essentials for an Effective Crisis Plan
It’s a harsh and inevitable reality: A crisis lurks just around the corner for all organizations. A well-tested, up-to-date crisis plan is therefore indispensable for ensuring business continuity and brand protection when reality strikes. But some plans are more effective than others, and the more effective ones include these…
A Crisis Limps Into the ER: First, Do No Harm
When your organization encounters a crisis, say a fire, you’ll of course take immediate steps to put it out. But depending on how big the fire is, it could mean a prolonged crisis, and you’ll want to have some way of measuring its seriousness so you can act accordingly. …