One of the more important concepts that we address is that of the "extended enterprise." A disaster and/or catastrophic event that impacts one of your critical business partners or vendors may very well be a significant event for your business, and vice versa. During the current pandemic, we have seen numerous instances of significant supply chain breakdowns. In today's high technology, "just-in-time" business environment it goes without saying how essential it is for organizations to account for the extended enterprise in their incident management and business continuity planning. provide some non - COVID 19 examples through research or personal/professional experience of where this is most important.