This is the 2nd in a series of articles focusing on Business Continuity Planning – from basics to testing. While not intended to define any standard for BCP’s, these articles should provide assistance for new Planners, and provoke the thought…
When a disruptive incident impacts critical national or regional infrastructure, or when public safety is at stake, multiple emergency agencies are often involved in the response. Those responders could be from federal or state agencies as well as local teams…
Very little quantitative progress has been made in Business Continuity Management since IT-Disaster Recovery programs began to morph into BCM programs in the 1980’s. Standards and best practices have been hashed and rehashed but nothing substantial has changed. BCM programs…
The challenge of Business Continuity Planning is to plan for the unknown event that might disrupt an organization’s ability to service their critical customers, or may impact their brand or reputation. Odds are that Mother Nature and serendipity will collide to ensure that…
The BCM program in many progressive enterprises focuses on Incident Readiness. Integrating critical aspects of Planning, Incident Response and Incident Management, an Incident Readiness program aims to assure an organization is truly prepared to respond to any disruption of its…
The purpose of an Incident Readiness Program is to enhance the ability to respond effectively to any business disruption and restore those assets (Business Processes, facilities, technology, suppliers and people) that are critical to the delivery of that organization’s Products…
Business Continuity methodologies have been around for decades. Business processes, technology, culture, markets, media and communication have all changed – yet BCM is still virtually the same. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that ‘Selling BCM to the C-Suite” is a problem…
“Business Continuity Planning: Is it an Art or a Science?” That discussion rages on, with as much intensity as the chicken-or-the-egg controversy. But there is no doubt when it comes to Incident Management – there must be an underlying science…
During an incident there is constant need or desire for information from many stakeholders: Senior Management wants to know what is impacted, what the response is, what the expected outcome is and when operations will be back to ‘normal’. Line…
You’ve spent years creating Plans and accumulating data in your legacy DRP software. Now you’re no longer sure that old software is capable of providing everything you need. But you assume you face a ‘Hobson’s Choice’: stick with the old…