Risky Thinking —
Articles on Business Impact Analysis and Risk Assessment
These articles and essays about business continuity, risk assessment, threat
analysis, and risk management are part of the preparatory work for a book.
I hope you find them interesting and useful.
The most recent articles are:
- Of Tomatoes, Traceability, and Terrorism
It hasn't been a good summer for the food industry in North America, with major outbreaks of Salmonellosis and Listeriosis. What can we learn from these even if we aren't in the food industry?
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- Two (or more) Types of Emergency Notification System
I was sitting in a meeting listening to a sales presentation on an Emergency Notification System. The client needed an Emergency Notification System. This wasn't what the client needed. What went wrong?
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- How far away should a hot site or mirror site be?
A question that is often asked when designing a disaster recovery plan
is how far away a hot site or mirror site should be. Is there a simple answer?
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- Supplier Risk and Brand China
Recently there has been a spate of recalls involving Chinese goods.
Is there something wrong with goods made in China?
If you source components or products in China should you be worried?
And what should you do?
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- Should It Be In The Plan?
A question which confuses many people is whether a document, data, or procedure should be included in the business continuity or disaster recovery plan, or should it simply be referenced by it. As so often is the case, it's a trade-off...
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For older articles, see the Risk Article Archive.
Your comments are welcome. There's a feedback link at the bottom of
each article.
Michael Z. Bell,
Albion Research Ltd.
© Albion Research Ltd. 2008
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