2022 Goals: Let’s S.C.R.E.A.M.
Goal setting is a classic kick-off activity every new year. On a personal level, it is common to commit to breaking bad habits or starting new (healthy) ones with New Year’s resolutions. In a professional sense, there may be development of new skills, honing new areas of responsibility, or targeted career growth. For our company- […]
National Weather Disasters Are Becoming More Prevalent And Severe… And Help Is Not Necessarily On The Way
/by Frank ShultzTwenty times last year a weather or climate disaster cost the US at least a billion dollars. These disasters also resulted in the deaths of at least 688 people, the most since 2017. The trend is not only for weather disasters to be more expensive, but more frequent; even adjusted for inflation, 2021 was only […]
The Game of Retail Risk: It’s No Game
/by Jason JacksonCommerce drives the world. Whether conducting business online or a brick-and-mortar location, the marketplace brings together people and products in a way both enlivening and, in some cases, terrifying. Retailers are emerging from specifically challenging times — the COVID-19 pandemic that fundamentally altered retail — only to confront new challenges and variants to old challenges. […]
The Greatest Risk for a General Counsel: Business Continuity Tips for Success
/by Deb ZoniesThe list of urgent matters demanding a general counsel’s attention is never-ending—contract negotiations, litigation threats, investor relations, regulatory concerns, personnel issues—but we cannot allow the urgent to crowd out time to consider the important. Although many of these matters may be time-sensitive, our overriding responsibility is to assess risk and protect the company. Lost in […]
Dealing With Changing Business Continuity (BC) Standards and Regulations
/by Mike JenningsBusinesses operating in the financial services sector of the UK are now required to fortify their operational resilience and must be in compliance by 31 March 2022. This comes as a result of a 2021 order from the Bank of England (BoE) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), which regulates and supervises the UK’s banks, […]