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Fire and Rain: Adapting to an Era of Global Instability 

MHA Consulting

Geopolitical risk is arguably at the highest level it’s been in 50 years. Try a Dose of Risk Management A World in Tumult There’s a consensus among the key executives I’ve talked to recently: the current global environment contains more risk for organizations than at any time in the last half century. counterparts.

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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

Reviewed by Donald Watson, editor of the website theOARSlist.com , Organizations Addressing Resilience and Sustainability, editor of Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design (McGraw-Hill 2001), and co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). He has served as consultant for United Nations, U.S.

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BCM Basics: Business Continuity vs. Business Resilience 

MHA Consulting

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. Then came the game-changer that was the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The terms business continuity and business resilience are superficially similar and a world apart.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

In today’s post we’ll look at the top 10 free or almost free resources business continuity management professionals can utilize to help them raise their BCM skills and effectiveness to ninja level. Much of this change was propelled by the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.) State, county, and city Emergency Management offices.

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Black Swans and Swiss Cheese – A Boat Crash in Baltimore

Plan B Consulting

This is a classic business continuity and emergency response incident, and I thought I would examine it through the lens of a couple of risk management concepts: black swan events and Reason’s Swiss cheese theory. Black swan events, popularised by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, are rare events that have a major impact when they occur.

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A Glimmer of Hope: Resilience at the BCI World Hybrid 2022 Conference

Fusion Risk Management

Gradually, we have seen the return of the ‘conference,’ a phenomenon only remembered by those born pre-2001. . Request a demo or contact your Fusion account manager or myself via LinkedIn today! . The post A Glimmer of Hope: Resilience at the BCI World Hybrid 2022 Conference appeared first on Fusion Risk Management.

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Internal Controls & Fraud Prevention

Reciprocity

Employees or senior management create fictitious revenues, understate revenues, hide liabilities, or inflate assets in financial statement fraud. These consequences came to pass when the Enron scandal broke in 2001. These auditors must know how to assess fraud risk. Financial Statement Fraud.

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