When contemplating Business Continuity strategies, one of the foremost scenarios to consider is (and should be): what if the building is not accessible? Twenty years ago the only viable answer would have been to transfer people to an unaffected building…
As we’ve written about in an earlier blog, the Business Continuity industry still tends to confuse Incident Management and Crisis Management. To stave off argument, let’s agree on this: Incident Managers handle the response to and recovery from a disaster…
Making certain your organization is “Incident Ready” requires a great deal of planning, testing and exercising. Readiness also requires a qualified and practiced Team to manage your organization’s response to a disruption or disaster. If you have done all that…
When holidays roll around, or summer shines on the horizon, it is human nature to slack off a bit – as your mind begins its own slow descent into holiday mode. Unfortunately, Business Continuity never takes a day off. Business…
Before there were automobiles, people traveled only a few miles from their homes – because travel by horse, or on foot, was slow. For centuries, that limited horizon satisfied most people’s needs. With the advent of the bicycle, followed by…
Every Business Continuity Management (BCM) “standard” uses RP0 (Recovery Point Objective) as a key metric, and nearly every BCM program includes that metric – but few understand it, and even fewer know what to do about it. Should you care?…
There are no vacuums in business (unless you’re in janitorial or restoration services). Within every organization, everything is connected – people, processes, technology, facilities, supply chains and more. But some Business Continuity Plans are created as though the underlying function…
The world grows more complex every day. New technologies, global competition, instant communications; every new opportunity presents new risks. Yet countless BCM planners follow “Loss of” scenarios for their Plans. I know from experience that many BCM professionals understand those…
For all our supposed ‘maturity’, the Business Continuity industry can’t agree on some of the simplest things – like terminology. When it comes to proving the worth of BC and ITDR plans, getting the terminology right should be easy. Do…
Part 1 of this article suggested that today’s BIA Survey is overused, over-stuffed, over-valued and usually overwhelming. Instead, the article advocated a solid starting point, narrowed objectives and easily quantifiable goals. The survey itself is a process fraught with problems. …