So You Want to Be a Risk Mitigator: 5 Tips to Help You Master the Craft
One of the most important roles business continuity professionals have is that of risk mitigator: a person who understands, manages, and educates others at the organization about risk. In today’s post, we’ll […]
The Risk Management Process: Manage Uncertainty, Then Repeat
This post outlines the risk management process —the steps every organization should go through regularly to protect themselves against the hazards of doing business. Every organization needs to do some type of […]
Don’t Just Hope: Choosing Strategies to Mitigate Risk
Once you’ve identified the risks facing your organization, you need to consciously select a risk mitigation strategy for each one. In today’s post, we’ll explain the four possible strategies and share some […]
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Managing Risk but Were Afraid to Ask
In business continuity, risk is at the center of everything we do. Therefore, we thought it might be helpful to make today’s blog a primer on risk. Most of this stuff you […]
Solving the Puzzle of the Operational Risk Management Lifecycle
When you’re completing a jigsaw puzzle, it is a lot easier to grasp how the pieces fit together if you have a picture of the completed puzzle to go by. By the […]
Go Like a Rocket: 3 Tools to Help You Manage Enterprise Risk
Few things embody the task of balancing risk and reward like a manned space rocket sitting on the launchpad as the moment of liftoff approaches. Such a rocket brings together in one […]
Compliance and Residual Risk – It’s Not Just For Big Companies
One of our most successful webinars is “Your New BFFs – Compliance and Residual Risk.” (BFFs means Best Friends Forever, for those who haven’t been keeping up with their modern slang.) Available […]
You’re Doing It Wrong: Residual Risk
[This is the second post in our occasional series “You’re Doing It Wrong.” The first post was on BCM Metrics.] I realize that the title of this post is probably incorrect. It’s […]
How Becoming Risk Literate Can Turn a Horror Movie into a Hero Movie
When your organization isn’t risk literate, the result can often resemble a horror movie; when it is, you can save the day. In some ways, being a business continuity management consultant is […]
Business Continuity Risks: Comparing Inherent & Residual Risks
Manage business continuity risks more effectively using the concepts of inherent and residual risk.
5 Business Continuity Threats & Risks You Think You’ll Never Face
Here are five types of business disruptions you probably haven’t thought of—or planned for.
What Is Residual Risk (and How Do You Calculate It)?
Ensure the success of your business recovery plan with this residual risk calculation.