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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 31, 20252 min read


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I've had two people who read my new book make a similar comment: it's already out of date because of what Trump is doing to federal...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 24, 20252 min read


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 4, 20253 min read


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 25, 20252 min read


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 10, 20253 min read


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 20, 20253 min read


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 13, 20253 min read


"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 6, 20253 min read


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Valuing Your Assets Appropriately
Part of business continuity is figuring out what your most important processes are for operations - to keep things running, even at a...
Erika Andresen
Oct 28, 20242 min read


How Restaurants Survive No Utilities
I have some stories of just harsh truth, paths ahead, and amazing hope in this blog entry. The reality for many Asheville-area...
Erika Andresen
Oct 21, 20243 min read


"They Didn't Tell Me!" - Why You Need an Expert to Survive Helene
I am continuing with my experience surviving Helene in Asheville, NC. I didn't think there was anything I could have done to help the...
Erika Andresen
Oct 14, 20243 min read


Hope for Businesses After a Disaster: Asheville and World Central Kitchen
If you haven't been paying attention, I live in Asheville, NC. Business continuity is difficult after a catostrophic event has occurred...
Erika Andresen
Oct 7, 20242 min read


Why Small Business Survival IS important
I talk a lot about how small businesses and their survival are key components to community resilience. It can be from just tax purposes...
Erika Andresen
Sep 23, 20242 min read
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