Executive Guide To Business Continuity

Jeffrey M. Dato, MBCP Vice President, Risk Management and Corporate Real Estate Pinnacle Airlines Corporation Congratulations! By reading this, you are taking the first step along the journey to better understanding of how an effective business continuity program can affect (directly or indirectly) who you (as a company) are, how and with whom you do… Continue reading Executive Guide To Business Continuity

The Three-Minute Drill – Gaining Your Boss’s Ear To Get Executive Support

The greatest barrier to entering the inner circle is created because most advisors, early on, tend to give advice in the context of their staff function or personal area of expertise. Typically, staff thinking and decision making are quite different from operational thinking and decision making. To succeed as a trusted strategic advisor to operating… Continue reading The Three-Minute Drill – Gaining Your Boss’s Ear To Get Executive Support

As Technology Moves Forward, Data Protection Does Too

Nnear the beginning of the digital revolution, computation devices relied on punch cards and other physical media to house information. This data was not stored solely in digitized form, but rather was converted to physical machine-readable information when it was required, so that the actual data remained in some other format. Ledgers, files, and other… Continue reading As Technology Moves Forward, Data Protection Does Too

The Exercise of Adult Learning

George Sheehan, physician, author and running enthusiast once said “Exercise is done against one’s wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse” I think that quote seems to apply equally to the field of emergency management and business continuity. Everyone hates to perform exercises for a variety of reasons but do ever so reluctantly.… Continue reading The Exercise of Adult Learning

Risks and Benefits of Using Social Media

The term “social media” refers to any Internet-based medium created through social interaction where individuals primarily produce (rather than consume) the content. The growth of social media has been explosive. An estimated two-thirds of Internet users visit social networking or blogging sites. Reportedly, social media now account for almost 10 percent of all Internet time.… Continue reading Risks and Benefits of Using Social Media

Storage Consolidation: First Things First

Storage and storage consolidation are the hottest topics in IT today. Onsite, cloud, high-performance, high-function … there is more technology now than ever before. Resellers are getting more and more exposure to products every day. But where should you begin? Good business practices insist that we make sure we have a problem to solve before… Continue reading Storage Consolidation: First Things First

Managing Risk with Advanced Modeling Techniques

The term megacatastrophe has continued to gain prominence in the insurance and reinsurance worlds over the last few decades. Typically used to describe the havoc wreaked by major disasters such as Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005, megacatastrophe has also been used to illustrate the comprehensive and devastating effects of the four… Continue reading Managing Risk with Advanced Modeling Techniques