Erika Andresen
When YOU Are The Thing Everyone Relies on
911 services went down at two different points so far in 2024. The first (written about in this blog) involved an AT&T outage caused by...
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Erika Andresen
Apr 223 min
Hard Truth: You Don’t Want to Succeed
Success requires work. Not just work, the work. There is putting in work and doing all the things you need to to get off the ground –...
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Erika Andresen
Apr 153 min
Disability and Inability Shared Solutions
Part of business continuity is taking care of your employees. I'm going to meld my BC background with my emergency management background...
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Erika Andresen
Apr 83 min
Missing: Good Financial Advisory Firm Business Continuity Plans
Pull out those milk cartons. FINRA is not joking around. Like the SEC’s rule in 2016 to have advisory firms registered with the SEC do...
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Erika Andresen
Apr 12 min
What's Your Grade?
The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse highlights something important: how unimportant we regard investing in infrastructure on the whole....
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Erika Andresen
Mar 243 min
Success in Succession
For those who don't know what business continuity is, they assume it is succession planning. Yes, and...it is one of the planks of a...
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Erika Andresen
Mar 182 min
An Expensive Mistake
Compliance can be a real pain in the ass. Dotting i's and crossing t's is time consuming. Worrying about whether or not you're doing...
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Erika Andresen
Mar 102 min
I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours
Supply chain management is receiving a lot of push now. It’s never not been a thing in the realm of business continuity, but more people...
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Erika Andresen
Mar 42 min
I Got It! I Got It!...I Don’t Got It!
There are so many lessons to be learned from the fatal avalanche that happened in the Lake Tahoe area in January. This is not going to be...
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Erika Andresen
Feb 262 min
“I couldn’t work all day!” – When AT&T Goes Down
Do you know why I love to start all exercises with “You’ve lost all your phone and internet access”? Because it is likely to happen and...
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Erika Andresen
Feb 192 min
“No, *I* Want to Do It!” – Why You Can’t Have a Child Mentality in Business
You know how young kids stubbornly insist on doing something themselves even though it will take longer, not be done as well, or just...
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Erika Andresen
Feb 123 min
Business Continuity via Love (Served Two Ways)
Valentine’s Day week has a theme: love. And business continuity. I often speak about how and why business continuity is important to a...
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Erika Andresen
Feb 42 min
(Taylor) Swift Thinking vs Slower Advanced Thinking
This is the headline: Taylor Swift’s Chiefs-themed ring brings thousands of orders to Kansas City small business. In manufacturing there...
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Erika Andresen
Jan 292 min
Hot Mess in Big Names
There is a reason you cannot rely exclusively on third party providers (3PP) for your business being operational continuously. 3PPs are...
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Erika Andresen
Jan 212 min
Communication is a Human Driven Task and Thusly Vulnerable
I like to tell people the first thing to go in a disaster is your phone. Communications get interrupted very quickly and easily. But I...
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Erika Andresen
Jan 152 min
Outside the Box (and Season) Thinking
I’ve talked about seismic shifts in industries before. If your business relies heavily on the weather or climate to be successful, you...
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Erika Andresen
Jan 72 min
Business Continuity cares when you personally don’t
Business Continuity is designed to ferret out the issues you are not thinking about in your business. Systems, processes, physical...
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Erika Andresen
Jan 12 min
Public-Private Redefined, or, "Moo"
Remember the Friends episode where Joey says “It’s all a moo point.”? Then Rachel says, “A moo point?” He responds, “Yeah, like a cow’s...
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Erika Andresen
Dec 17, 20232 min
Business Continuity is a Gift
There are a lot of professions that are gifts to the world. Doctors, nurses, first responders, scientists who create things, researchers...
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Erika Andresen
Dec 10, 20232 min
Hero’s, not the Fool’s, Journey
I’ve never hid the fact I’m what some regard as woo-woo. It’s time the woo-woo presents itself as a parallel to business ownership and...
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