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Canada's costliest catastrophe is flooding. Is your business prepared?

CCEM Strategies

By understanding the risks, you can better prepare your business. Files including contact information for your employees, key suppliers and customers, insurance and legal documents, and of course your emergency plan, should also be backed up digitally. So, what can you do to help mitigate the effects of flooding?

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Business Continuity Learning – Where do you start?

Plan B Consulting

Reflecting on the theme for this year’s BCI Education Month, ‘Discover Business Continuity & Resilience’, Charlie looks at how newcomers to the profession can learn from the experience of others and gain the knowledge to succeed in their role. Business continuity is not a profession you can learn out of a book.

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Business Continuity Learning – Where do you start?

Plan B Consulting

Reflecting on the theme for this year’s BCI Education Month, ‘Discover Business Continuity & Resilience’, Charlie looks at how newcomers to the profession can learn from the experience of others and gain the knowledge to succeed in their role. Business continuity is not a profession you can learn out of a book.

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Managing Up, How to Engage Your Executives Before a Crisis

Business Continuity Today

One of the most common complaints that I have heard over the years from emergency and business continuity managers is they cannot get their executives to participate in emergency drills and exercises. In addition, they make bad decisions, they do not understand the emergency plan and they become ineffective.

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Managing Up, How to Engage Your Executives Before a Crisis

Business Continuity Today

One of the most common complaints that I have heard over the years from emergency and business continuity managers is they cannot get their executives to participate in emergency drills and exercises. In addition, they make bad decisions, they do not understand the emergency plan and they become ineffective.

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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. Are you interested in taking college-level classes on business continuity, emergency management, or homeland security?

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Is Your Community Prepared for Flooding?

CCEM Strategies

Review and Enhance Flood Plans Your community already has emergency plans, and you may even have flood-specific plans. Review the plans and think about how flooding might impact your community. Need Help with Risk Assessments, Planning and/or Engagement?