James Green - Business Continuity Week

Welcome to the latest episode of the Zero Hour podcast and your host today is Karla Reffold. Today, we are joined by James Green. James is Director, Risk Advisory Services at SAI Global. He is passionate about life safety and helps the C-Suite understand the importance of business continuity not just during an emergency, but as an integral part of day to day operations. He has worked on risk events that have occurred all over the globe, including civil unrest in Egypt during the Arab Spring, executive travel and protection in the Pacific Rim, and the effects of destructive tornadoes in Oklahoma. Key Minutes 02:30 - Your degree isn’t always what you do 03:45 - The first time hearing business continuity 07:30 - The focus of the risk that just happened 11:40 - How do you plan to prepare? 13:25 - We need to show more value to leadership 15:55 - Will companies invest? 18:02 - Who invested well before Covid-19? 22:42 - Connecting the dots in business continuity 26:50 - Has cybersecurity cost business continuity? 28:23 - Combining cybersecurity and business continuity 29:30 - Where does PR or marketing fit in? 33:25 - Cybersecurity during Covid-19 35:50 - What’s the predictions of change following Covid-19? 43:40 - Building a career path in risk or business continuity 46:10 - Ten Quick Fire Questions Key Messages 1. Working together including decision making is the critical deliverable within crisis management 2. Investments needs to be increased in risk mitigation and resiliency 3. The lines between risk, business continuity and cybersecurity are becoming tied together even more so during Covid-19 You can find James at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesegreen Blog: saiglobal.com/hub/authors/james-green SAI Global: https://saiglobal.com Follow us:
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