Many organizations fail to acknowledge that the scenario most likely to cause a business disruption is an electrical outage. Without power, everything can grind to a halt. A sudden loss of electrical power can result from weather, mechanical malfunction, human…
At eBRP we have responded to Requests for Information (RFI’s) and Requests for Proposal/Price (RFP’s) for more than a decade. One thing our experience show is that Business Continuity managers have difficulty estimating the time it takes to push BCM…
Countless hours and thousands of words have been spent extolling the need to get Senior Management buy-in for Business Continuity – an admirable effort. Yet so little has been written about capturing the attention of BCM’s largest audience – line…
For decades, businesses have used ‘outsourcing’ (obtaining goods or services through a 3rd party, rather than from an internal source) as a mean of reducing expenses, eliminating overhead and reducing risks. As a Business Continuity professional, I’ve always been leery…
This question is as old as Business Continuity Best Practices. But there is a logical answer that many organizations (and most BCM Auditors) fail to recognize. That simple answer: No. But this would be a very short blog if some…
An earlier blog article by my colleague highlighted the importance of understanding the Causality Chain in effective Incident Management. Underlying the Causality Chain is the knowledge of the interdependencies of organizational assets which enable the delivery of products and services.…
Perhaps I’m just a curmudgeon (a crusty, ill-tempered old man), but it irks me when someone uses the term “Business Continuity” exclusively to refer to IT planning. Perhaps I’ve been in this industry too long. I remember when IT planning…
An excellent, recent article in Information Week online, entitled “5 Reasons Your Employees Don’t Care About Business Continuity” dealt with what I might categorize as ‘symptoms’ of non-participation. There are some fundamental problems in many organizations (and in their Business…
Those of us who spend our business lives immersed in the Business Continuity industry swim through a sea of acronyms. Meanwhile, we are constantly seeking the support and cooperation of colleagues who are often confused by those same acronyms. We…
“Preppers” (those anticipating the end of the world who stockpile guns, food, camouflage gear, bottled water and the like in expectation of Armageddon), have it easy. They simply buy and hoard as much as they can manage. They think they…