80% of Business Leaders make Critical Decisions without Full Information
Today we have more information at our fingertips than we have ever had before, yet informed decisions are not always made, when they should be. Every critical decision made in business should always be made on the basis of information, statistics and analysis. Although this is a staggering statistic, it has been stated before that [...]
Do Corporations have to think about International Law/Treaties?
Google recently announced that it will no longer censor search results on its Chinese site. The sad aspect about this affair is largely the fact that that Google has been prepared to limit freedom of speech for some of its users. China has signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and therefore has a duty [...]
Is your Corporate Risk Program the Corporation’s Biggest Risk?
Corporate Risk is the chance of something happening, in terms of probability and impact, that will affect achievement of business objectives. It has been identified many times in the past 10 years as one of the key challenges to business continuity. Yet many organizations still consider this somebody else’s problem. Risk taking is often seen [...]
Disaster Recovery for Small/Medium Sized Enterprises
There are many challenges to building a Disaster Recovery programme for large corporations. In looking at small or medium sized corporations the budget challenges are certainly more acute, yet there is a clear need for the risk to be mitigated. There are two main things that need to be covered when defining a recovery plan: [...]
The Data Warehouse Must be Included within the Disaster Recovery Plan as a Critical System!
It was a flood on the famous River Thames in the suburban town of Staines just outside London England nearly 20 years ago that originally got me thinking about the impact of a disaster on a business. Through regular checks on proximity of water to the air-conditioner unit we knew that that we were just [...]





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