For those of you not familiar with Google’s disaster passion – you have got to check out the Google Crisis Response Project.  They have been responding to natural disasters since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 by making information such as storm paths, shelter locations, emergency numbers, and donation opportunities easily accessible. After all, that got the… Continue reading Google Crisis Response Project Kicks In With Fabulous Sandy Crisis Dashboard – Love Those Disaster Geeks!

Lately I’ve talked with two risk management experts who expressed their disappointment in the direction many in risk management have taken—or they might say lack of direction. One risk management and insurance industry expert was explaining that captive insurance companies, corporate subsidiaries formed to insure certain corporate risk exposures, are now largely overseen by CFOs.… Continue reading Are Risk Managers Missing the Boat?

Corporate compliance and enterprise risk management are two closely inter-related spheres. A company’s risk management program would be incomplete without covering compliance risks and without using compliance tools to mitigate risks. On the other hand, compliance management is a critical component of risk management. This is recognized in COSO’s integrated Enterprise Risk Management framework, which… Continue reading Top Five Corporate Compliance Blunders

Nobody believes you, no matter what you say, more and more people gather around, the roar of the crowd, the vicious comments, the loud voices, so many voices, and no matter what you or your employees, or your agencies do, the noise just doesn’t go down and often increases further. Handling an online crisis can… Continue reading Secret Weapons for Crisis Management: Brand Advocates & Communities

When you sit down to make a recovery plan, you’ll often hear two pieces of advice: figure out what pieces of your operation are business critical and make sure you have a plan for everything. On the surface, these seem like contradictory statements, but they really aren’t. Prioritizing your critical elements doesn’t mean you recover… Continue reading Disaster recovery is in the details

While 2012 has been a very active hurricane season in terms of total storms, the effects on life and property have been relatively small and the need for disaster recovery less than many years. Let’s all be thankful for that. Right now, Tropical Storm Sandy is threatening Jamaica and the Caribbean but is forecast to… Continue reading Analytics and disaster recovery

Governor Deval Patrick says the approaching Hurricane Sandy will not only test the state’s emergency preparedness planning, but also that of utilities now operating under a new law aimed at making them accountable for emergency response services and notifications. “We’ll be watching them and watching the storm through the course of the weekend,” the governor… Continue reading Deval Patrick says Hurricane Sandy will test utilities’ response under new customer service law