Author: Jim Mitchell

Every organization faces risks – and some of those risks may result in disruptions or other ‘incidents’.  For all Business Continuity programs, an effective response to an incident requires many things.  Our recent blog series “Incident Horizon” breaks those requirements into five phases: Planning, Preparedness, Initial Response, Planned Response and Extended Response.  Understanding the purpose […]

Every organization faces risks – and some of those risks may result in disruptions or other ‘incidents’.  An effective response to an incident requires many things.  We’ve combined them into a 5-part “Incident Horizon”: Planning, Preparedness, Initial Response, Planned Response and Extended Response.  In this blog we look at the Extended Response phase of the […]

Every organization faces risks – and some of those risks may result in disruptions or other ‘incidents’.  An effective response to an incident requires many things.  We’ve combined them into a 5-part “Incident Horizon”: Planning, Preparedness, Initial Response, Planned Response and Extended Response.  In this blog we look at the composition of one of those […]

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 (or to a predetermined 3rd party ‘work space’).  Ten years ago, forward thinking IT departments […]

Every organization faces risks – and some of those risks may result in disruptions or other ‘incidents’.  An effective response to an incident requires many things.  We’ve combined them into a 5-part “Incident Horizon”: Planning, Preparedness, Initial Response, Planned Response and Extended Response.  In this blog we look at the composition of one of those […]

Every organization faces risks – and some of those risks may result in disruptions or other ‘incidents’.  An effective response to an incident requires many things.  We’ve combined them into a 5-part “Incident Horizon”: Planning, Preparedness, Initial Response, Planned Response and Extended Response.  In this blog we look at the composition of one of those […]

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 or business disruption.  Crisis Managers work to minimize the negative response – from customers, vendors, […]