New Strain of Bird Flu (H7N9) Kills Two and Critically Sickens Another in Chinaâ¦Really, This ISNâT An April Fools Joke!
What a thing to come out on April Foods day! The official Chinese news agency Xinhua has reported that two people in China have died and another remains critical after falling ill with a strain of bird flu not detected before in humans. Both of those who died, men aged 27 and 87, lived in… Continue reading New Strain of Bird Flu (H7N9) Kills Two and Critically Sickens Another in Chinaâ¦Really, This ISNâT An April Fools Joke!
4 Steps To Prevent Theft And Ensure Business Continuity
Perhaps youâre traveling, and while your back is turned to take an important call, someone steals your laptop. Through no fault of your own, small businesses are vulnerable to theft in a variety of contexts, including cyber theft. For example, people could strategically attack your computer or network to steal your data. And donât forget… Continue reading 4 Steps To Prevent Theft And Ensure Business Continuity
Managing Risk and Information Security: Protect to Enable
Risk management in the real world is not an easy endeavor. On one side, people use toilet seat covers thinking they do something, on the other side, millions of people smoke cigarettes, ignoring the empirical evidence of their danger. http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/23050-Managing-Risk-and-Information-Security-Protect-to-Enable.html
Top 5 Compliance Risks Resulting from Recent Healthcare Legislation
With recent years bringing about unprecedented change in the healthcare industry, Health Service Organizations (HSOs), more than ever, need to manage their risk through ensuring they maintain effective corporate compliance programs. Maintenance is key. However, just when an HSO may they think they have a solid program in placeâ¦everything changes. Well, âeverythingâ may be an… Continue reading Top 5 Compliance Risks Resulting from Recent Healthcare Legislation
Wrestling with Integration Opportunities?
The term “integration” and more specifically, “integrated disability management” has been bandied about for more than a decade in ways that are inconsistent and have caused much confusion about the underlying opportunity represented by this concept. More than a decade ago, “integrated disability management” became the catchphrase for an emerging concept: leveraging synergies in the… Continue reading Wrestling with Integration Opportunities?
Seven tips to manage a food manufacturing crisis
The product recall in mid-January when equine DNA was found in supermarket burgers has rapidly turned into an international scandal exposing complex cross-border supply chains. http://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Business-News/Seven-tips-to-manage-a-food-manufacturing-crisis?utm_source=copyright&utm_medium=OnSite&utm_campaign=copyright
Can You Forbid Employees from Discussing a Crisis on Social Media?
During a crisis, the last thing you want to have to worry about, on top of everything else that is already stressing you out, is who within your team may or may not be discussing private details that have not yet been made public â even if only to their own friends and family. This… Continue reading Can You Forbid Employees from Discussing a Crisis on Social Media?
5 Strategic Tips for Avoiding a Big Data Bust
“Big data” has arrived as a big business initiative. But the hip, experimental, ad hoc veneer of blending data streams to surface bold discoveries belies a massive cultural and technological undertaking not every organization is ready for. http://www.cio.com/article/730999/5_Strategic_Tips_for_Avoiding_a_Big_Data_Bust
Meeting the Supply Chain Complexity Challenge – Part Two
Having identified some of the drivers of complexity in supply chains in the first part of the roundtable report, how are organisations dealing with the challenge? http://thebceye.blogspot.com/2013/04/meeting-supply-chain-complexity.html
These Top Risks Can Threaten A Companyâs Business Model
Of particular interest to executive management and the board of directors are normal and ongoing business management risks, emerging risks, and critical enterprise risks. In this column, we focus on the last category, which we define as the top five to 10 risks that can threaten the viability and/or execution of the companyâs strategy and… Continue reading These Top Risks Can Threaten A Companyâs Business Model