… perception and communication of risk

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Last week I was talking about the need for Sales and Marketing thinking to be applied to the risk/BC practice.  To do either of these thing effectively we need the appropriate message and presentation. Too often we focus only Crisis Communication, and there are plenty who provide advice in that space. To become more resilient we need [...]

Why you should send your Risk and BC Managers on sales training

Risk and BC Managers are sales people. In fact they generally have stalls right next to one another in the “Antique Governance Bazaar”. They are attempting to sell themselves and their approaches every working day. Are you achieving your Risk/BC sales targets? Alex Fullick posted a great example of why we need sales skills on [...]

… 2010 in hindsight

This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series Blog Objectives

Time is the most egalitarian asset, we all get exactly the same amount. The difference is what each person does with their allocation. Without some kind of objectives or goals we have nothing to guide us, nor a means to determine if we reached our desired destination. This applies to our BCM and Risk Management [...]

Weekly RSS Review

Technically these articles may not have come through this week, sometimes there is so much good stuff to bring to your attention that it just takes a while to catch up and process. I have been at a number of events lately talking about the subject of cloud computing. Very timely to see this post [...]

… swans of varied hues

Over the weekend I read a paper by Geary Sikich, “Are we seeing the emergence of more White Swan events? Exploting new challenges in Enterprise Risk Management.” You may have seen it published on Continuity Central, under the shorter title “Exploiting new challenges in Enterprise Risk Management” My review here is based on the version [...]