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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...
Erika Andresen
Apr 15, 20243 min read


Missing: Good Financial Advisory Firm Business Continuity Plans
Pull out those milk cartons. FINRA is not joking around. FINRA (in Rule 4370(e), specifically) sets out that each member “must disclose...
Erika Andresen
Apr 8, 20243 min read


What's Your Grade?
The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse highlights something important: how unimportant we regard investing in infrastructure on the whole....
Erika Andresen
Apr 1, 20242 min read


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...
Erika Andresen
Mar 24, 20243 min read


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...
Erika Andresen
Mar 18, 20242 min read


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...
Erika Andresen
Mar 10, 20242 min read


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...
Erika Andresen
Mar 4, 20242 min read


“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...
Erika Andresen
Feb 26, 20242 min read


“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...
Erika Andresen
Feb 19, 20242 min read


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...
Erika Andresen
Feb 12, 20243 min read


(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...
Erika Andresen
Feb 4, 20242 min read


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...
Erika Andresen
Jan 29, 20242 min read


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...
Erika Andresen
Jan 21, 20242 min read


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...
Erika Andresen
Jan 15, 20242 min read


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...
Erika Andresen
Jan 7, 20242 min read


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...
Erika Andresen
Jan 1, 20242 min read


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...
Erika Andresen
Dec 17, 20232 min read


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...
Erika Andresen
Dec 10, 20232 min read


They're Called Growing "Pains" For a Reason
Business continuity is generally understood to prepare businesses for two things: disasters and disruptions. Disasters are defaulted to...
Erika Andresen
Dec 3, 20232 min read


Devil in the Details: Knowing Too Much About Travel
Bah, there is no such thing as knowing too much information about travel. As an invited in-person speaker, I need to “business...
Erika Andresen
Nov 26, 20233 min read
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