A recent blog addressed the personal qualities most useful to an effective Business Continuity Management Team member. The article prompted a question regarding whether the first trait on the list “Someone who has a good grasp of how your organization…
Organizations in which emergencies, crisis and disruptions are, if not common, frequent, are likely to have an Emergency Management department, team or group. Public Utilities, Energy, Transportation (especially aviation) and Government agencies, among others, are all likely to maintain Emergency…
What can you do when Business Continuity Plan owners fail to update their Plans? I previously discussed why some organizations struggle – or simply neglect – to update their BIA data. A BIA can be like a Platypus (an Australian…
An earlier blog addressed some reasons why your C-Suite (Executives, Sr. Managers) might not be the best choice for your Incident Management Team. What about the composition of Business Continuity Management (BCM) Teams? A BCM Team may be quite varied…
Call them what you wish – justifications, rationales, excuses; there are plenty of reasons that organizations large and small fail to create or maintain Business Continuity Plans. Even having a BC program doesn’t assure that development of Plans across the…
Whether we’re willing to admit it or not, most of us in Business Continuity Management understand that our industry needs fixing. You may not believe it is fundamentally broken. Perhaps ‘broken’ is too extreme. Would ‘in need of repair’ make…
The old conundrum “which came first, the chicken or the egg?” reminds me of an often-heard Business Continuity statement: “We’ve got a Business Continuity Plan, so we’re covered.” Perhaps you don’t see the similarity. The chicken/egg question is largely unanswerable…
Most of us have gotten used to our rapidly-changing world. OK, perhaps ‘gotten used to’ is the wrong term; maybe “learned to live with’ would be more appropriate for non-Millennials. It wasn’t that long ago that PC’s had memories measured…
Recovery Time Objective. Anyone who deals with Business Continuity or Disaster Recovery – as a planner, responder or auditor – is familiar with the term. It appears in every Business Continuity Management (BCM) ‘Standard’. It is the generally-accepted benchmark by…
Someone recently asked if was possible to plan for a Black Swan event. I’m not sure if he was serious, but I suppose it’s a question that’s occurred to many planners. Can you plan for a Black Swan event? To…