Author: Jim Mitchell

Imagine for a moment that your company building was impacted by a natural disaster; what will happen to the day-to-day operational activities? Suppose, some of the executives in your company were responsible for a scandal, how will you manage the company’s brand/reputation? Unplanned events occur, and it can be devastating to businesses if there is […]

News travel fast. “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!” All it took was this one tweet from Justine Sacco, senior director of corporate communications at IAC to her then 170 Twitter followers. Within a matter of minutes, while she was asleep in the plane, Justine became the No.1 worldwide […]

Perhaps it’s the longer days or the warmer temperatures.  Summer changes how we perceive our world.  Sunny days and warm evenings generate idyllic visions of beaches, exotic travel, cool mountain breezes, holidays and vacations.  At work, there is a general feeling that things have slowed down.  Perhaps they have, but unlike the days before air-conditioning, […]

This is the 4th in a series of articles discussing the future of Business Continuity Management.  The series starts here.  In today’s business ecosystem, with RTO’s approaching zero and new threats emerge with regularity, organizations can ill afford to pay for Business Continuity teams that simply write Plans – to meet regulatory and audit requirements, […]

For some time, Government agencies (especially in North America) have focused their Business Continuity efforts (or Continuity of Operations, COOP, as they often prefer to call them) on an ‘All-Hazards’ planning approach. Several years ago, I attended a presentation by a major US Government institution.  The presenter began by defining Continuity of Operations “COOP is […]