Every business depends upon certain "givens," which range from retaining key personnel, to emergency planning, to credit arrangements. But what happens when a relatively young CEO is killed in an ...

Contingency plans can focus on going forward: expanding sales and production. Or they can focus on the downside: cutting expenses in a slowdown. This article will focus on the sideways contingency ...

Let’s discuss the importance of contingency planning, what a comprehensive contingency plan should include and how to implement one effectively. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are ...

Editor's note: This article was expanded and updated in November 2017. Business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) planning are critical activities for organizations of any size. This article ...

A business that does not address risk management from the onset is one that will find itself vulnerable to the various intangible things that happen. There are four primary methods a company can plan ...

Business leaders don’t want doubters in their organization, for fear that workers won’t advance the leader’s plan if they consider the possibility of failure. This is probably the chief reason that ...

A disaster recovery plan provides a structured approach for responding to unplanned incidents that threaten an IT infrastructure, which includes hardware, software, networks, processes and people.