Modern Business Continuity Management

Explore how global and local factors shape business continuity planning, tailoring disaster preparedness to country-specific risks—from earthquakes and civil unrest to outages and communications resilience.

Develop robust business continuity management plans to prevent fallout from disasters; learn from Sony's data breach, Bayport, and TEPCO Fukushima to protect customers and communities.

Explore how BPO companies sustain operations through backup sites and rapid recovery after disasters, and maintain service continuity for 24/7 operations.

Navigate the 24/7 interconnected world and its susceptibility to sudden collapse by examining global supply chains, disruptions, black swan events, and the need for robust business continuity planning.

Develop resilience against systemic risk through business continuity planning, with backup locations, data center and software backups, and proactive preparation for man-made and natural disasters in a global, 24/7 world.

Explore how automation and information technology reduce human dependency in banks by automating routine tasks, cutting redundancies, boosting efficiency, and enhancing regulatory reporting and online 24/7 services.

Automation and information technology boost efficiency for banks by reducing redundancies, enabling online banking and ATMs, cutting branch visits, and improving regulatory reporting and fraud prevention.

Identify and avoid three traps that threaten family-owned businesses, including pressuring the next generation, silos, and lacking a clear succession plan; promote merit and broad leadership to sustain growth.

Explore how a typical business continuity program operates and why backup sites safeguard operations after disasters. See how backup sites in another city or country preserve business continuity within hours.

Establish a mechanism to reach employees in an emergency and move them to backup sites. Use a contact list and assign responsibility down the levels of management to ensure outreach.

Establish a service level agreement guiding employee access to the backup site during emergencies and ensure the backup site remains operationally ready at all times for rapid restart within hours.

Explore why intellectual property rights face renewed defense as software and digital items face unprecedented piracy, especially in emerging markets. The lecture discusses solutions like affordable pricing and targeted discounts.

Industry players defend intellectual property rights amid pirate threats and enforcement actions against file sharing sites. They grapple with copyright ownership, open-source debates, and calls for government resolution.

Examine the practice of living quarter to quarter, balancing nimble short-term performance with risks to long-term value, and the impact of quarterly guidance on investors.

Balance short-term stock prices with longer-term value creation, recognizing equity prices are one value component amid a fast-paced 24/7 news cycle that rewards quarterly results.

Explore creative destruction as capitalism's driver of profit, balancing short-term targets with long-term value; see how blue-chip giants sustain growth through strategic investment in capital and talent.

Compare digital securities and digital assets, and examine how distributed ledgers underpin ownership and value across industries, highlighting key challenges and opportunities in the digital security landscape.

Address digital securities challenges, including privacy, compliance, and controllability, and explain how monitoring transactions, KYC/AML, and programmable rules shape security design and market integrity.

Identify trusted sources of information and establish a centralized control center to monitor real-time threats, assess disruption risks, and guide contingency planning for business continuity.

Prioritize employee safety and enable work from home arrangements with laptops and wireless internet, reinforcing business continuity and individual responsibility during disruptions.

Lead from the front and establish a clear chain of command to guide teams during disruptions, keeping the business running and employees safe.

Explore how climate change and ecological damage from unsustainable business and lifestyle practices threaten our planet, from bushfire in Australia and the Amazon to unseasonal storms, impacting business continuity.

Bridge the antiscience mindset and denialism, emphasizing the role of business leaders to bridge the gap between climate activists and skeptics.

Business must lobby governments to act on climate change and eco-friendly practices, because we have reached the point of no return and need a mindset shift to lead ecological protection.

Global business must walk the talk and act before it is too late, embracing genuine sustainability and avoiding greenwashing to address climate change, ecological destruction, and the Green New Deal.

Learn how to create an emergency response plan and active recovery plan within modern business continuity management, test for gaps, and reduce downtime costs during disasters.

Identify top threats to organizational continuity and apply risk assessment to prioritize disruptors, from global pandemics and power outages to cyber attacks, natural disasters, and supply chain disruptions.

Assemble a business continuity management team, define roles, create contact lists, establish communication and recovery processes, and perform business impact analysis to shape recovery strategies.

Prepare for disruption with a business continuity solution by identifying risks, planning to keep your business in motion, gaining a competitive edge, and reducing impact before, during, and after disasters.

Identify threats, assess risks, and build organizational resilience to protect services and reputation. Develop, test, and implement emergency response, crisis management, and disaster recovery plans to ensure continuous operations.

Identify critical services and assess downtime impacts with a business impact analysis (bia). Develop risk-based continuity strategies, enable remote work, implement clear communication plans, and test the bcm regularly.

Explore the four P's of business continuity for service delivery—people, processes, premises, providers—and learn to train staff, enable remote work, document critical processes, and implement workarounds and backups.

Enhance resilience to keep core operations running under stress, minimize downtime, protect reputation and customer trust, and meet regulatory requirements for a competitive edge.

Explore how business continuity management creates competitive advantage by boosting operational resilience, protecting brand trust, and accelerating strategic agility through threat identification and rapid recovery.