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Research & Development Activity
The Center focuses on real world impacts with an emphasis on the development of actionable strategies and policies through active collaboration with key private sector stakeholders and a holistic approach to risk management and resilience. The Center's research activity focuses on achieving objectives in uncertain environments with insights from a diversity of disciplines including the areas of enterprise risk management, strategic planning, change management, finance /venture capital, project management and innovation.
InterCEP's research activities are international in scope, regularly engaging with international corporations and governmental entities across the globe. Special emphasis is placed on the "what" and "why" of enterprise risk management and resilience. Evolving best practices and standards provide insights into "what" can be done. Bottom-line and other impacts of risk management and resilience provide the insights into "why" organizations should invest resources in these practices.
The Center's work acknowledges that risk management not only mitigates the "downside" impacts of crisis but also enables a more agile, informed and coordinated organization to achieve "upside" benefits and opportunities inherent in uncertainty.
Core elements of the Center's research and outreach activity include:
- Effective Practice - The "What to do": Identifying and promoting industry best practices and consensus-based guidance on risk management and resilience. The Center focuses on collaborating with key stakeholders to identify effective practices and lessons learned in the implementation of risk management spanning enterprise risk management, security, crisis and emergency management, business continuity and related disciplines. Supporting the development of standards and guidance is included in these efforts.
- Economic Rationale - The "Why to do it": Identifying impacts of effective risk management and resilience and forwarding new business incentives. Absent a compelling "why" to manage risks, the "what" to do will not get done as such activity will not receive the necessary investments of time and resources. Identifying and clarifying the economic and other impacts of effective risk management is critical, as is facilitating the development of new market-based incentives. The Center is undertakes to identify, expand and communicate the "business case" for risk management and resilience.
- Promoting Collaboration on Shared Risks Across Both the Private Sector and Public Sectors. The Center advances an integrated approach to resilience and risk management activities among private sector organizations and between private sector and public sector organizations.
Related work includes metrics/assessment/benchmarking, risk-related information flows, and public-private partnerships.
The Center has undertaken a variety of impact-oriented initiatives to advance resilience; these include:
- Identification & Communication of the Business Case for Risk Management & Resilience: The Center continues to identify both corporate and wider community/societal impacts of resilience/risk management and present these in a manner conducive to inform investment in resilience.
- Standards Development & Consensus-Based Policy Development: InterCEP's Director serves on the national board of directors of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and works for wider application of the consensus-based approach for policy development on both a public policy as well as industry policy basis. He also serves as a steering committee member of the ANSI Homeland Security Standards Committee, a coordinating body for public/private coordination in this critical area. The director also serves on the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to the ISO International Technical Committee on Societal Security, participating in the development of the first ISO standard on incident management and operational continuity. He also has serviced as a principal member of the NFPA 1600 Technical Committee, the Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity. The Center also developed, with the input and collaboration of over 60 organizations, a draft standard on "Mobilizing Private Sector Resources to Disaster." The draft standard was developed based on lessons learned in part from Hurricane Katrina. It has been incorporated into a FEMA initiative to establish an integrated standard and process for resource management.
- Recommendation and Promotion of the Private Sector Preparedness Certification Program (PS-Prep): The Center in conjunction with leading corporations initially proposed this program to the U.S. Congress and coordinated corporate input on the development of the legislation. InterCEP hosted five working groups with several hundred corporate participants as well as key public sector stakeholders. The working groups advised on the design and implementation of the program. InterCEP's Director serves on the advisory committee for the PS-Prep accrediting body and has testified to Congress twice on this program (2008 and 2009).
- Development & Promotion of New Economic Incentives for Resilience: The Center has collaborated with key stakeholders to create greater incentives for resilience in the following areas: insurance, rating agency consideration, legal liability mitigation, supply chain management and more rationale/integrated business reporting of resilience and preparedness.
Announcements
- Proceedings of the Global Risk Network London Forum of October 6, 2011
October 10, 2011
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Continue reading » - InterCEP International Cross-Sector Supply Chain Integrity Forum Proceedings
August 1, 2011
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Continue reading » - Summary of Proceedings for the Global Risk Network Summit, June 2011, New York City
July 29, 2011
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Continue reading » - Summary of Proceedings of the International Public-Private Preparedness Summit, June 2010
July 15, 2010
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Continue reading » - New York's Small and Medium Sized Businesses Are Not Prepared for Emergencies. Why?
September 1, 2007
A project of the Center for Catastrophe Preparedness & Response, the International Center for Enterprise Preparedness and the American Red Cross in Greater New York >Read (.pdf)...
Continue reading » - The Business Case for Preparedness: An Annotated Bibliography
August 20, 2007
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Continue reading » - Proceedings of the International Public-Private Preparedness Summit
June 1, 2007
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Continue reading » - Mobilizing Corporate Resources to Disasters: Toward a Program for Action
January 24, 2007
William Raisch, Matt Statler & Peter Burgi > Read (.pdf)...
Continue reading » - The Business Case for Enterprise Resilience: Significant Risks, Substantial Rewards
January 5, 2007
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Continue reading » - Assessing Preparedness: Proceedings of an Open Discussion at the Contingency Planning Exchange (CPE)
November 15, 2006
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