by Mark Hoffman | Aug 27, 2018 | Member Post |
In February of 1968, just two months before his life was tragically cut short, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a sermon in Atlanta, GA that he titled “The Drum Major Instinct”. In Dr. King’s words, the instinct is “a desire to be out front, a desire to lead the...
by Mark Hoffman | Apr 4, 2018 | Member Post |
It was a text book crisis. It happened on a typical Wednesday morning in a rural office in Ontario. Making it even more “typical”, members of the Crisis Management Team were out of town on business. The company was experiencing a sophisticated phishing attack and a...
by Mark Hoffman | Nov 15, 2017 | Member Post |
As I was about to write this article, I saw a post in LinkedIn from Rob Burton quoting the Top 3 concerns of business continuity professionals according to the BCI Horizon Scan 2017. Not surprisingly, number one on the list is cyber security. (Followed by data...
by Mark Hoffman | Oct 5, 2017 | Member Post |
First, let me say thank you for all the great comments and questions during the “Creating a Crisis Management Plan” Webinar hosted by ICMC on September 28th. Between running short on time and me starting to lose my voice – I never got to answer all your questions. ...
by Mark Hoffman | Sep 14, 2017 | Member Post |
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun TzuPart 4 in a series.To this point, we have collected and reported our Business Impact Analysis (BIA) data. Sadly, for many organizations this is where the process stops. But actually, this is where it...