Risk as a working discipline: assessing what can actually hurt the organization, prioritizing by impact rather than fear, and communicating risk so leadership acts on it.
Business ContinuityA DR plan is a set of precise claims about a specific environment. A transformation is the deliberate, wholesale changing of that environment. Put those two sentences together and you see the problem most transformation programs never address.
Business ContinuityLightning fried a computer room around me. Backhoes cut my DR links. A tabletop exercise with a truck bomb and an active shooter taught a room of professionals that half of them could not authorize anything. Twenty years of disaster…
IT OperationsWe were hunting for a machine during a disaster recovery effort. Systems were talking to it, work depended on it, and it was not in the server room. We found it under a user's desk in accounting, running decade-old software,…
IT OperationsThe migration budget covered the conversion, the cutover, the infrastructure, the testing. The real bill arrived afterward, by invoice: hundreds of SQL queries that had to be re-optimized for the new platform, by six specialist DBAs, over six months, on…
IT LeadershipThe Gantt chart crescendos to cutover weekend, and the boxes after it say 'stabilization,' thin little boxes, drawn by optimists. Then you go live and discover what those boxes contain: weeks of triage, expectation management, and a system running on…
IT OperationsFriday we were on the old platform. Monday we were on the new one, and it was buckling. We stood at the edge of a rollback with the whole company standing on a system that could not carry the load,…
ComplianceCesar Dongo-Soria joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to explain the hidden, high-stakes world of trade compliance: why end-use liability can jail an executive, why a ten-million-dollar deal can be the wrong deal, and why you cannot rely…
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