We recently heard about a debate among certain public sector organizations on whether the trade agreements apply to the procurement of insurance. To help clarify things, we decided to answer this question. In this blog post we only examine whether …

I found myself in a very strange situation for the first time in 25-years of doing this thing we call, “search”.  Suddenly I had candidates, and I had a search committee, but the two were separated by both distance and …

    Michelangelo famously created the sculpture David and JK Rowling famously revealed characters that already existed. Two completely different types of artists and art. But how did Michelangelo actually approach this masterpiece? Did he take a stone and begin …

In 2017, the introduction of the Canada EU Trade Agreement (CETA) suddenly shined a new spotlight on municipal procurement, thrusting it onto the international stage. For the first time ever, municipalities were forced to open up procurement opportunities to international …

Is your security risk management, business continuity and any other resilience program you have simply to prove you have one? Check the box, so to speak? It’s perhaps stable, reliable, unchanging? Then you have a problem. You’re doing it wrong. …

The past few months have been challenging for everyone as we change the way we live, play and work. Many industries have been forced to pivot and find digital solutions to continue serving their customers in the “new normal”. Canadian …

How much does your organization spend each year on technology? Not just new technology but maintenance and subscription renewals as well?   If you’re a medium or enterprise-level corporation, it’s probably not an insignificant amount   For that matter, relatively …

  No individual, no organization, no place is completely immune from some form of a disruptive event. Pandemics, epidemics, financial and government unrest, terrorism, on top of the myriad of natural disasters and the consequences of those events that countries, …

Why should you have a cyclical strategy to your risk and security? Risk Complacency. You run the risk of being complacent. The one man-made hazard that is probably the easiest to avoid and the largest threat to any sized business, …

What else does organizational resiliency do for the organization aside from being able to carry on during and after a disruptive event? Reduces stress – it reduces stress in those managing and working prior to, during and after an event …