Adele Martz

Director of Business Continuity Planning, General Motors

Business Continuity: Improving GM's Risk Profile
50 minutes, 22.9mb, recorded 2005-09-08
Adele Martz

Adele Martz, Director of Business Continuity Planning and Crisis Support at General Motors, explains in this audio lecture how risk management puts GM at a competitive advantage. Invited at the Effective Disruption Management Seminar convened last September by Stanford Graduate School of Business, she shares the procedures and success factors of business continuity planning with a floor of government, corporate and humanitarian agency representatives willing to translate some of this knowledge into humanitarian supply chain improvements.


Adele Martz is a Director in Corporate Risk Management at General Motors Corporation with responsibility for development and implementation of global business continuity and crisis preparedness programs. She has been with General Motors since 1979 holding positions in demand analysis, inventory management, production scheduling, systems development, market research and product planning. Martz has a Bachelor of Industrial Administration degree from General Motors Institute (Kettering University) and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan.

Resources:

  • Other suggested readings from the Stanford Graduate School of Business library.
  • More events from the Center for Social Innovation.

This free podcast is from our Disruption Management series.

For The Conversations Network:

  • Post-production audio engineer: Sheela Sethuraman
  • Website editor: Marguerite Rigoglioso

Photo: Bernadette Clavier