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The Costs of Terrorism, Crime, and Violence to Canadian Business: Findings From the 2011–12 Global Competitiveness Report

The World Economic Forum ranks countries on various factors affecting competiveness. This briefing looks at how Canada fares against comparator countries on indicators relating to the business costs associated with terrorism, crime, and violence.

Briefing | 12 pages | January 2012
Jessica Edge, Douglas Watt | The Conference Board of Canada

Health and Safety—Views From the Top: An Interview With Stephen Jones

This series of executive action briefings, produced by the Conference Board’s Senior Executive Health and Safety Leadership Charter Initiative, is intended to promote health and safety in Canadian organizations and build senior leadership engagement.

Executive Action | 6 pages | October 2011
Frances Phillips | The Conference Board of Canada

Preparedness in the Private Sector – 2011

This report is based on a survey of executives regarding their companies’ resilience planning and security planning. The survey asked about companies’ levels of physical security, IT security, business continuity, crisis management, and pandemic planning.

Report | 44 pages | October 2011
Daniel Sandy Bayer | The Conference Board, Inc.

Achieving Resilience: A Systems Approach

A new approach to emergency preparedness is oriented toward systems and seeks resilience based on the realization that it is impossible to protect communities and organizations against crisis in a vacuum.

Executive Action | 7 pages | October 2011
Linda Corman | The Conference Board, Inc.

Achieving Resilience: Planning for Flexibility during Crisis

Planning and preparation are as essential as ever, but now they must be flexible, incorporating the capacity to respond to unique developments in a crisis.

Executive Action | 7 pages | October 2011
Linda Corman | The Conference Board, Inc.

Achieving Resilience: Establishing Networks—Before the Crisis Comes

Having a network in place in advance of a crisis can provide a critical boost to achieving resilience.

Executive Action | 6 pages | October 2011
Linda Corman | The Conference Board, Inc.

It’s All About You: Building Capacity in Cyber Security

This report identifies and provides ideas on building the kind of knowledge and understanding that we require to effectively contribute to our own personal digital security as well as that of organizations and nation-states.

Report | 60 pages | September 2011
Bjorn Rutten | The Conference Board of Canada

It’s All About You: Building Capacity in Cyber Security—Executive Summary

This report identifies and provides ideas on building the kind of knowledge and understanding that we require to effectively contribute to our own personal digital security as well as that of organizations and nation-states.

Executive Summary | 8 pages | September 2011
Bjorn Rutten | The Conference Board of Canada

Beyond Sandbagging: Building Community Resilience to the Impacts of Climate Change

Learn how a greater emphasis on adaptation and building resilience at the local level and within communities can help to mitigate the impacts of a changing climate for Canada.

Report | 46 pages | August 2011
Stefan Fournier | The Conference Board of Canada

Beyond Sandbagging: Building Community Resilience to the Impacts of Climate Change—Executive Summary

Learn how a greater emphasis on adaptation and building resilience at the local level and within communities can help to mitigate the impacts of a changing climate for Canada.

Executive Summary | 8 pages | August 2011
Stefan Fournier | The Conference Board of Canada

Health and Safety: Views From the Top—An Interview with Jacynthe Côté

This series of executive action briefings, produced by the Conference Board’s Senior Executive Health and Safety Leadership Charter Initiative, is intended to promote health and safety in Canadian organizations and build senior leadership engagement.

Executive Action | 6 pages | July 2011
Frances Phillips | The Conference Board of Canada

Learning from H1N1: Transformation, Integration, and Collaboration

Lessons and best practices identified by Canadian organizations and subject matter experts from the 2009 H1N1 pandemic that can be used to enhance corporate and community resiliency in the face of a future pandemic or emergency.

Report | 48 pages | July 2011
Andrew Archibald, John Neily, Nicole Stewart | The Conference Board of Canada

Regional, Cross-Border Planning: Maine–New Brunswick Action Plan for Infrastructure Protection and Resilience

This report details the strategic regional action plan and framework developed to improve cross-border critical infrastructure protection and resilience in Maine and New Brunswick.

Report | 68 pages | June 2011
| The Conference Board of Canada

Health and Safety: Views From the Top—An Interview With Jim Kellett

This series of executive action briefings, produced by the Conference Board’s Senior Executive Health and Safety Leadership Charter Initiative, is intended to promote health and safety in Canadian organizations and build senior leadership engagement.

Executive Action | 6 pages | April 2011
Frances Phillips | The Conference Board of Canada

Bouncing Back: How Companies Approach Resilience

This report seeks to better grasp the application of resilience to business preparedness.

Report | 27 pages | April 2011
Conference Board Inc., New York | The Conference Board, Inc.

Converging Physical and Information Security Risk Management

Traditionally, physical and information security have operated in their own silos with separate teams and different risks, processes, and budgets.

Executive Action Report | 6 pages | February 2011
Conference Board Inc., New York | The Conference Board, Inc.

Responding to Hurricanes: Lessons for Emergency Preparedness

This Executive Action includes issues and checklists for companies who are preparing their own response plans.

Executive Action Report | 9 pages | February 2011
Conference Board Inc., New York | The Conference Board, Inc.

Security in Canada’s North Looking Beyond Arctic Sovereignty

This report examines three dimensions of security in the North—Arctic security, Northern security, and community security—in order to provide a more comprehensive picture of the security challenges in Canada’s North.

Report | 44 pages | November 2010
Bjorn Rutten | The Conference Board of Canada

Preparedness in the Private Sector - 2010

This report analyzes the findings of a 2010 survey on business security, and compares them to findings from prior surveys in 2007 and 2009. In 2010 a component to measure integration of the security function with enterprise risk management was added.

Report | 38 pages | October 2010
Daniel Sandy Bayer | The Conference Board, Inc.

Keep It Moving Improving the Resiliency of Global Supply Chains

In this report, The Conference Board’s Centre for National Security takes an in-depth look at three supply chain disruptions and studies the consequences for supply chain security and resiliency.

Report | 42 pages | October 2010
Andrew Archibald, Bjorn Rutten | The Conference Board of Canada

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