Risk Management

  • Risk-Based Thinking and Business Continuity Planning

    I use the term all the time. Avalution’s leadership team, and by extension, the firm’s product/service-related messaging often uses it. A quick Google search returns nearly 6.8 million results in under a second. The term I’m referring…

    Brian Zawada, FBCI Brian Zawada, FBCI | Apr 23, 2018
  • Risky Business (Part 3): A Supply Chain Continuity Case Study

    Muda. It’s the Japanese word for waste and the enemy in modern supply chain management and manufacturing. Since the 1980s, lean thinking has revolutionized the way businesses operate by seeking to eliminate muda and free capital held…

    Avalution Team Avalution Team | Jan 11, 2016
  • Risky Business (Part 2): Too Lean, Too Late

    Many organizations today aim to make operations as lean as possible. But, in doing so, are these organizations unknowingly increasing the risk of operational downtime and excess cost? Due to streamlining operations and eliminating redundant activities or…

    Avalution Team Avalution Team | Mar 02, 2015
  • Risky Business (Part 1): Managing Third-Party and Supplier Risk

    Business continuity planning is inherently cross-functional with a necessity to address risks to an organization’s product and service offerings, as well as the resources necessary to meet obligations.  As organizations increasingly rely on a global network of…

    Avalution Team Avalution Team | Sep 25, 2014
  • Organizational Resilience: What it could, or should, mean in the standards landscape

    As Posted in the Digital Edition of Continuity Insights Magazine Admittedly, I wrote this article to better get my mind around the swirling debate regarding the concept of organizational resilience and what it means – or better…

    Brian Zawada, FBCI Brian Zawada, FBCI | Apr 04, 2012
  • Force Majeure: What is it and How Does it Relate to Business Continuity?

    We see a lot of confusion specific to the topic of force majeure. Often, executive management has the belief that force majeure clauses in their contracts protect them from a wide variety of disruptive events, and thus…

    Avalution Team Avalution Team | Nov 30, 2011
  • An Update on TC 223 and ISO 22301

    Online Exclusive – as published on drj.com  | Updated June 2012 [EDITOR’S NOTE – Brian Zawada is a member of the US Technical Advisory Group to ISO Technical Committee 223. Zawada participated in the 2011 and 2012 meetings as a…

    Brian Zawada, FBCI Brian Zawada, FBCI | Aug 11, 2011
  • The Basics of ISO 31000 – Risk Management

    After approval by the ISO member bodies, the ISO Technical Management Board Working Group on risk management released ISO 31000:2009, Risk Management – Principles and Guidelines in November of 2009. The authors designed the standard to be…

    Avalution Team Avalution Team | Jan 19, 2011
  • The Death of All Hazards Planning?

    As published in the Summer 2010 Issue of the Disaster Recovery Journal – Volume 23, Number 3. The time has come for business continuity to evolve beyond the idea of “all hazards” planning and deal directly with…

    Avalution Team Avalution Team | Dec 20, 2010
  • Plan Do Check Act (PDCA) – How it Applies To Business Continuity

    The business continuity industry has heard a lot about Plan, Do, Check Act (PDCA) recently. Nearly every emerging standard is following this approach, from BS 25999 and NFPA 1600 (2010 edition) to the new American business continuity…

    Avalution Team Avalution Team | Jun 30, 2010