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Breaking Down Silos: I'm Redefining "Silo"
I need to set the stage for what is, so it becomes what was. One of the biggest challenges for business continuity is leadership buy-in....
Erika Andresen
7 days ago3 min read
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Quantitative Data is Better Unless...
For a lot of business owners, knowing the quantitative impact to their bottom line is what can seal the deal in making strategic...
Erika Andresen
May 263 min read
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Planning on exiting? Keep your distance.
Succession planning can be problematic. Not just from a logistics standpoint, but also from just how integrated the out-going leader is...
Erika Andresen
May 132 min read
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It's All Good - Use What You Got
I am not a fan of being constricted by anything, really. I'm also a fan of using what you already know but in a way you're not thinking...
Erika Andresen
Apr 282 min read
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The goal of planning is not The Plan
This should not come as a surprise once I explain what I mean. The plan outlines the steps that will happen and the roles each person...
Erika Andresen
Apr 142 min read
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Good Enough is Good Enough
Guess what I'm not going to tell you. That you need to spend all of your money on business continuity. Why? You can throw thousands upon...
Erika Andresen
Mar 312 min read
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Don't Get Stuck By What You Know
I've had two people who read my new book make a similar comment: it's already out of date because of what Trump is doing to federal...
Erika Andresen
Mar 242 min read
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A Go-Fund-Me is not a Resilience Plan
Don't get me wrong - setting up a Go-Fund-Me if your business is located in an area that has just been hit by a disaster is great to help...
Erika Andresen
Mar 43 min read
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Continued Survivability After Surviving: Beware Cannibals
The last time I talked about cannibalization in a business sense was as a corporate lawyer. It's basically when, as a business, you...
Erika Andresen
Feb 252 min read
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Why - as a Business - You Need FEMA
There is a lot of talk about "getting rid" of FEMA. That's a dog that's been walked back before (in the early 90s), and it will be walked...
Erika Andresen
Feb 103 min read
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TikTok Ban and Business Continuity
I've written before about the regulatory whiplash and the cluster of confusion and expense it creates for big manufacturing companies...
Erika Andresen
Jan 203 min read
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Misinformation Leads to Misdirected Anger
2025 continues its jump-out-the-gate-with-tragedy start. If you're a business, knowing how things work will help you in your response and...
Erika Andresen
Jan 133 min read
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"Good Enough" Ain't
This is both the first blog of 2025 and the first since I took my holiday break to write my second book. I am writing about "good enough"...
Erika Andresen
Jan 63 min read
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Continuity in Christmas!
Pretty much every Christmas movie has business continuity in it. Santa sick? Mrs. Claus steps in. Can't fly the sleigh because the fog is...
Erika Andresen
Dec 16, 20241 min read
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Recovery is not Resilience
I was reading an article in a local Asheville paper recently that was a roundup of a city meeting regarding zoning of the floodplains....
Erika Andresen
Dec 9, 20242 min read
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The Downside of a "New" Normal
Things are meant to change - for better or worse - as part of evolution and life. I've said after a disaster or disruption, the final...
Erika Andresen
Dec 2, 20242 min read
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Your Current Mistake Started 7 Decisions Ago
That was advice given to me in a sitdown with a Colonel when I was about to graduate JAG School. His point was that most bad things could...
Erika Andresen
Nov 25, 20242 min read
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If You Aren't Experienced, You Waste Time
This is just a fact. I'm not ashamed to admit I almost never eat fast food. The last time I had Wendy's was 2015 and I can't say when...
Erika Andresen
Nov 18, 20242 min read
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The Agony of Post-Election Business Continuity
Not business continuity being in the news...but of course no one is calling it business continuity (although that's what it is). I...
Erika Andresen
Nov 11, 20242 min read
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Annual Known Disruptions
Disruptions don't always have to come in the form of a surprise. Annual events - as in on this day every year X happens - can be either a...
Erika Andresen
Nov 4, 20243 min read
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