Residual Risk: if you’re not familiar with the term, you should learn how it applies to your Business Continuity Management program. In pulmonary science (the study of lungs) there’s something called ‘residual volume’. That’s the amount of air that remains…
Assumptions are the IED’s (Improvised Explosive Devices) of Business Continuity. Anyone can create one and, once strategically placed (usually tucked among the Mission Statement and Objectives) they have the capability to destroy a Business Continuity or Disaster Recovery Plan in…
When you can’t put your full weight on your foot or leg because of an injury or surgery, you can still get around using crutches. It’s not hard, but it’s clumsy, it’s slow, and you can’t keep doing it forever…
Your Disaster Recovery Plan has a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) – or, perhaps multiple RTO’s for each Application or Service being recovered). Your Business Continuity Plans have RTO’s for the underlying functions or business processes they are designed to recover.…
In 1977, Irving Wallace and his children began publication of The Book of Lists (since updated many times). It’s a fascinating book, but only useful for making odd references at parties. The same holds true for Business Continuity Plans. I’ve…
My wife decided we needed a bench just inside our front door. She went to various shops and found one – for $400. Being a relatively handy guy, I thought I’d build my own. So I downloaded a set of…
Sometimes I think there really are Parallel Universes. There’s the one where someone creates a Disaster Recovery or Business Continuity Plan that no one else is allowed to see; and then there’s the universe I live in – where everyone…
The goal of every Business Continuity Management program ought to be preparedness: creation of a state of readiness in which goals, objectives, participants, roles and responsibilities are known, and practiced. An increased level of preparedness which Business Continuity planning can create…
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Not all Business Continuity plans are created equally. Calling something a “plan” doesn’t make it one. Real planning should go into its creation – not simply filling in blanks in a template, or copying a bunch of lists to an…