Outsourcing (paying another company to do some portion of work your own company doesn’t want to, or can’t do itself) can be a tricky proposition. It may make sense when another company already has expertise, experience and capacity to perform…
The term “Resiliency” has become commonplace in discussions about Business Continuity Management (BCM). Resiliency is often portrayed as the goal of BCM. But Resiliency is usually ill-defined. It means one thing to the CIO, but may mean something quite different…
In many organizations, buried somewhere in their Business Impact Analysis (BIA), is a form asking participants to designate what Resources (computers, phones, printers – even desks and chairs) they will require if their normal business operations are disrupted. That sounds…
Since the early days of Business Continuity Planning, many organizations have chosen to focus efforts on “Worst Case” and “Hole-in-the-ground” scenario planning, and Departmental Continuity Plans. The value of Departmental Continuity Plans is a myth. Planning for an artificial, organizational…
This is the 2nd in a series of articles examining the “myths” of today’s Business Continuity Management industry. The emergence of “Cloud” technologies in the past decade has created both benefits and risks. Whether simply backing critical data up in…
This is the 1st in a series of articles examining the “myths” of today’s Business Continuity Management industry. In a standard, methodology-driven BCM program, much of the industry follows the RA-BIA-Strategy-Plan Development cookie-cutter path, assuming that of all of these…
Risk Assessments have always been a ‘best practice’ in Business Continuity Management. That classic legacy approach has required a thorough examination of threats & vulnerabilities, probability & impacts – resulting in some manifestation of risk index. But at the end…
Whether you are a full-time Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery professional, or a part-time planning coordinator, you’ve probably asked yourself the same question: why can’t I motivate people to write and maintain plans for their areas of responsibility? If a solution to…