On Wednesday, October 21, the Lally School of Management hosted the second in a series of supply chain and analytics events with “Confidence in Chaos: Fortifying Supply Chain Business Continuity Capabilities in an Evolving Risk Landscape.” The event was held in the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies auditorium and moderated by T. Ravichandran, the Irene and Robert Bozzone ’55 Distinguished Professor and associate dean for research at Lally.
Jodie Wright ’10, senior associate of the information protection and business resilience practice at KPMG, was the guest speaker. She detailed today’s “exciting yet evolving” marketplace as a more globalized, complex, and risky context than ever before.
To that end, supply chain failures are more likely to occur, creating a strategic challenge for continued business operations, Wright said. To prepare for this challenge, more organizations are establishing business continuity programs to help mitigate loss and quickly resume production activities in the event of a supply chain disaster.
Jodie Wright ’10, senior associate of the information protection and business resilience practice at KPMG, was the guest speaker. She detailed today’s “exciting yet evolving” marketplace as a more globalized, complex, and risky context than ever before.
According to Wright, organizations should keep the following in mind when starting a business continuity program: the possible business continuity, risk management, and supply chain management hurdles; an outline of the present risk landscape; the organization’s levels of business continuity preparedness; the instrumental role certain individuals will play during disaster recovery activities; and the defined pathways for communicating about supply chain interruption with certainty.
Wright’s experience in providing business continuity management services includes clients in transportation, financial services, publishing, manufacturing and distribution, public sector, telecommunications, and health care industries. She recently passed the Certified Business Continuity Professional Qualifying Exam, with her certification application currently pending.
She graduated from Rensselaer in 2010 with a B.S. in operations research mathematics, with minors in psychology and management.
When Wright is not serving her clients, she remains actively involved in her community by participating in local Association of Contingency Planner meetings, volunteering with the American Red Cross, and as a board member of the Far Mill River Condo Association.