A contingency plan is a backup plan, activated in the event of a disaster that disrupts a company's production and puts employees in danger. The goal of the plan is to safeguard data, minimize ...

Every business depends upon certain "givens," which range from retaining key personnel, to emergency planning, to credit arrangements. But what happens when a relatively young CEO is killed in an ...

The pause in our daily routines initiated by the coronavirus pandemic has created severe challenges. It has also provided an opportunity to assess the effectiveness of your contingency plan and how ...

Construction risk management is a process of identifying and evaluating the unique risks that each project presents. Crucial to the evaluation is developing methods to mitigate the impact of risks to ...

The United States has a poor record at both anticipating foreign crises and planning for them. To improve U.S. readiness for crises that are both plausible in the short- to medium-term and likely to ...

During the last month, segments of my life collided with each other. It turned out to provide some useful reflections about the well versus the unwell life, and about childhood. I had an unexpected ...