For years, we have talked about the skilled labor shortage as a future challenge. From my perspective working in facilities ...

A small business can be negatively impacted by all sorts of changes or events, from natural disasters to entrance of new competitors into a market. A contingency plan is a document that outlines how a ...

Contingency planning and crisis management are not conflicting concepts but instead work in tandem. Contingency planning is the process of preparing for potential emergencies, while crisis management ...

Since business plans can never foresee all eventualities, good planning provides for contingencies to address unexpected events. In marketing plans, projections for sales, revenue and market reaction ...

On Oct. 27, 2009, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) Computer Security Division (CSD) published Special Publication (SP) 800-34 Revision ...

At the peak of the last boom, the CEO of Caterpillar told all of his division heads to start developing contingency plans for a recession. The division heads thought he was – crazy! Their greatest ...

Construction risk management is a process of identifying and evaluating the unique risks that each project presents. Crucial to the evaluation is developing methods to mitigate the impact of risks to ...

Nobody wants a supplier to go out of business, lose key people or get acquired. But sometimes it happens. Who would have imagined that WorldCom or Arthur Andersen could disintegrate? In today’s market ...

Campbeds, snacks and baby food: Should airports have contingency plans for disruption? - TRAVEL INSIDER: After more than 2,000 flights were grounded in a single day, MPs are asking why UK airports ...