The Noggin Blog

Nowadays, firms can expect some form of value-destroying corporate crisis at least twice a decade. And even those numbers might be too optimistic. In fact, a 2018 Forrester survey found that a full 100 percent of companies experienced a critical event in the last two years. Many dealt with multiple.

The wildland and urban interface as key to the utility wildfire risk

Home to the 2018 Camp Fire, Butte County, California, located as it is in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI), is increasingly representative of the type of  transitional area between unoccupied land and human development that’s increasingly become the site of heightened utility wildfire risk. 

In 2018 corporate security incidents came for everyone. So far, 2019 hasn’t been much better. Through it all, one of the year’s bigger, under-covered trends has been the underinvestment in security personnel. How serious is the issue?

Identifying safety and security threats and their consequences to your clients is a key task for boutique consultancies and larger advisory firms, alike. But the safety and security technology market is growing nearly as fast as the underlying safety and protective security issues those solutions seek to address. How then to know which software solutions to recommend and how to implement them once they’ve been chosen? 

No doubt about it, volunteer disaster and emergency response agencies have seen enormous strides in emergency and incident management technology. But have those gains kept up with the unprecedented rise in natural disasters and other emergencies?

Natural disasters are growing in kind, cost, and intensity. We see evidence of it all the time. Having recently lived in California, I experienced back-to-back cataclysmic wildfire seasons – last year’s North California season left air in the Bay Area so smoke-laden that it ranked among the dirtiest in the world. And now, my home state of New South Wales faces the same scenario, a longer, more intense bush firefighting season, already on track to be the worst in decades.

Emergency managers out there, do you have just one pick for an emergency management conference to attend this year? Then, I’d strongly suggest attending the 2019 IAEM 67th Annual Conference & EMEX – Honor the Past, Treasure the Present and Shape the Future.

The modern workforce is changing and changing fast. Nowadays, most firms – from industry incumbents to plucky startups – employ third-party contractors to perform essential business tasks.

The premier aviation conference and exhibition in Asia Pacific, the Australian Airports Association (AAA) National Conference attracted over 800 delegates last year, from Australia, New Zealand, and around the world.

Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements is critical to your business. But crisis and business continuity planning – often mandated by law – shouldn’t be a box-ticking exercise. Unfortunately, too many firms fall into the trap. What risks do those companies face treating crisis preparedness as a compliance-first practice?