Business leaders call for more crisis leadership
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DAVOS, Switzerland  - Business leaders called for more leadership to head off an economic downturn on Wednesday, with some saying an emergency U.S. interest rate cut may have been over hasty and could fuel a new market bubble.
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Executives at eight leading financial services firms met earlier this year to share their disaster recovery strategies -- and found that they all face many of the same issues.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida  - Almost two-thirds of U.S. chief executives polled for a survey released on Thursday said conditions in their business had worsened in the past six months.
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The world didn't end and most calls and messages got through, but the high volume of texting and cellphone calls resulted in a lot of bounce-backs. In a real crisis, this could mean real trouble.
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More disturbing than the fact that almost half of all enterprises haven't updated their disaster recovery/business continuity plan in the past year, only 41% have tested their plans in over the last 12 months. DR testing uncovers myriads of unforeseen problems.
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DAVOS, Switzerland  - Confidence among leaders of the world's top companies has fallen for the first time in five years, with the specter of global recession now the single biggest factor keeping executives awake at night.
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Pope John Paul II discussed the U.S. sex-abuse scandal with a group of American bishops Saturday, encouraging them to be more open to the needs of parishioners in the wake of a "crisis of confidence in the Church's leadership."
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Businesses should lead philanthropic efforts, Microsoft chief tells economic summit.
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Investors reportedly seek meetings with BP bosses to seek reassurances about the firm's safety record.
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Still grappling with an E. coli outbreak, the fast-food chain is doing too little to show that it is on top of the crisis, public-relations experts say
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Is disaster recovery strictly IT's problem at your office once the latest catastrophe fades from the headlines? Jon Espenschied suggests you take a closer look at BS 25999 when working through your business continuity issues.
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Domestic abuse may originate in the home but some prominent U.S. business leaders are backing a campaign to raise awareness about its toll in the workplace, which some estimate runs to billions of dollars.
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For the executives being honored at Computerworld&#8217;s Premier 100 IT Leaders Conference, crises and other career-defining moments pose challenges but also create leadership opportunities.
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Many corporate IT operations are underprepared and overconfident about their ability to handle a disaster, survey finds.
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With no end in sight to the current credit crisis, Europe&#39;s finance chiefs have launched a drive to lift the shroud of opacity over the rarefied world of high finance, which they blame for the turmoil.
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A lack of communication between information security, physical security and risk management functions could be leaving gaps in corporate security.
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Company bosses around the world see a global recession as a major threat, a survey suggests.