What are the worst corporate decisions of all time?

At Crisis Solutions we've been talking about catastrophic corporate decisions, but what are the worst?

This is what we came up with:

· Decca Records signing The Tremeloes rather than some hairy bunch from Liverpool called The Beatles?

· Coca-Cola changing its magic formula and rebranding itself as New Coke?

· IBM allowing Bill Gates to retain the rights to that unimportant aspect of computers – their software?

All are worthy of being inducted into the Corporate Catastrophe Hall of Fame, but what do you think? Any better ideas?

Crisis Solutions gets coverage on Continuity Central

Trends in business continuity plan testing and exercising


Jim Preen of Crisis Solutions takes a look at some emerging trends in the area of business continuity plan testing.

The most notable change in the crisis management environment is the revolution in instant multi-media communications channels and the resultant need for firms to be able to demonstrate that they are both on top of the problem and can communicate effectively in a way that takes account of the public and stakeholder ‘mood’. As a result, savvy organizations are looking at new ways and methods to scrutinize, test and validate their business continuity plans.

Click here to read on.

Assange as Bond villain

There's an excellent piece on the impact of WikiLeaks in The Guardian, where the writer, Clay Shirky, describes Assange as only a monocle and a Persian cat away from a Bond villain! But he has serious points to make on the balance that has to be struck between government secrets and a citizen's right to know what is being done in our name.

He also makes the point that whether or not the establishment, (in the UK, the US or Sweden) gets Assange and destroys WikiLeaks the genie is now out of the bottle. If WikiLeaks were put out of business, then another conduit would soon be found.

Assange has claimed, when the history of statecraft of the era is written, that it will be divided into pre- and post-WikiLeaks periods. Who dares say he is wrong?
Read the article here.