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Organizational Resilience

  • 10 Hard Questions to ask IT — 2026 edition

    10 Hard Questions to ask IT — 2026 edition

    Business Resilience stakeholders and their IT teams are often disconnected because they’re not grasping how their IT strategies are creating or affecting their risk posture, often because they don’t share taxonomy or metrics. Here’s 10 hard questions from a workshop I ran at MIT and am paring down for customer events, roadshows, CABs, PACs, SKOs,…

  • The Resilient Journey Podcast – Organizational Resilience

    The Resilient Journey Podcast – Organizational Resilience

    Was delighted to join Mark Hoffman’s podcast to start 2026 by discussing findings from DPM’s Organizational Resilience Trends research from last fall. We took the top ten takeaways and split them between episodes 216 & 217. Episode 216 January 5, 2026 First four takeaways : methods and metrics Episode 217 January 12, 2026 Six More…

  • DRJ article – your organization isn’t as resilient as you would like to believe

    DRJ article – your organization isn’t as resilient as you would like to believe

    According to your BC/DR professionals, 2/5 of your business processes are not resilient. One of the most revealing statistics came when survey respondents were asked, “What percentage of your organization’s key business processes do you believe to actually be resilient in alignment with your resilience goals?” Figure 1 reveals a fairly consistent distribution from worst…

  • Let’s talk Burnout! (part 2 of 2)

    Let’s talk Burnout! (part 2 of 2)

    Part 1 (the problem) covered 60-hour weeks and “part time” fractional roles as a Two Minute Mondays segment (here). Part 2 (part of the answer) is courtesy of Object First and Cybermindz.

  • There is more than just People, Process, Technology

    There is more than just People, Process, Technology

    If you’re focusing on “People Process Technology” in any IT modernization initiative then you’ve likely got two gaps in your plan. For organizations looking to bolster their Business Continuity, and by extension their IT, Data, or Cyber Resilience, understanding where vision ends and culture begins is likely the difference between success or failure.