February 3, 2021
Research Resources
Chief Operations Officers (COOs) have a responsibility to protect the supply chains, infrastructure, and employees of their organizations from threats posed by disruptive critical events. Unfortunately, critical events are unpredictable by nature. The risks are growing, and there are broad impacts--including severe revenue losses--to the failure to plan ahead to have a proactive strategy to [...]
7 Principles of Highly Effective Command Centers
Operational risk can come from a variety of sources both internal and external. When an operational risk impacts an organization’s people, assets, systems, supply chain, or brand, it becomes a critical event for that organization. Expertly managing such events is imperative for organizations, and in response, they’ve invested in command centers: physical or virtual spaces [...]
10 Step Guide to Staying Ahead of Emerging Security Threats
Staying ahead of security threats is paramount for top executives and each year, those threats become increasingly complex. Emerging threats could be economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal or technological. It is important not to oversimplify the emerging threat narrative, as security risks are progressing faster than organizations can adapt. This guide gathers useful insights from top [...]
Balancing Economic Recovery and Employee Safety
As enterprises navigate the rapidly shifting currents of COVID-19’s impact on local, regional, national and world economies, the duty of care to protect employees’ safety has to be the top priority within each company’s leadership team. The dynamic tension that exists between this duty of care to employees and the obligation to perform for shareholders [...]
A Successful Return-to-Work Strategy: Contact Tracing and Beyond
The world is beginning the tenuous process of reopening economies following months of lockdowns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. But how do we return to work when everything is changing not just from place to place, but from day-to-day? Contact tracing will be a critical part of the recovery process. While the purpose of contact [...]