Resilient women focus of BCI webinar The Business Continuity Institute‘s (BCI) Women in Resilience (WiR) USA Chapter let me moderate a panel yesterday. The talk focused on Women’s Experience in Business Resilience at All Career Stages. It was enjoyable to hear the opinions of such accomplished women. Although we all came from different backgrounds, we
Guidance for businesses COVID-19 pandemic planning for businesses is hard when you are in the middle of a crisis emergency. Pandemics are caused by new viruses so existing business continuity plans often fall short. Most plans are built for a more routine disaster like a building fire or hurricanes. A friend called me last week
It’s not if but when Preparedness for the novel coronavirus is more critical now than ever before for countries with limited or no known cases. The CDC briefing earlier today warned the American public of the likely spread of the virus in the United States. Community spread has occurred at a rapid pace this week
It’s my Christmas blog! Like the 12 Days of Christmas carol, I’m giving you a list of twelve things you can do to create a simple disaster plan. Take an hour for the next twelve days and review each section of the blog. Write down your answers, and you will have a basic business continuity
A lack of disaster regulations for businesses Keeping pace with new regulations is challenging. Not having them can sometimes be worse. Unless you are familiar with disaster planning, it unlikely that you know what the laws are. Countries outside of the US have business disaster regulations in place. Today, the US does not. Regardless of
It’s Here…My Halloween Blog! It’s the Halloween blog. The reason why I love blogs with lists is that they somehow manage to identify all the awful, scary, and downright shocking facts about a topic! So, this is the perfect time of year to share statistics I discovered about business continuity planning and small businesses. The
