At a recent Business Continuity Management conference, one speaker spoke about his experiences and the theme: “the value in the BCM program”.  He had worked at a retail supermarket chain that had a robust BCM program with both management buy-in and excellent business user participation.  They had created Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Crisis Management […]

Have Disaster Recovery plans? Tested them lately? An organization’s Disaster Recovery Planning program  should  include periodic Testing and Exercising of their DR Plans.  Organizations whose BCM programs are not mature enough, or where their plans are in preliminary stages might not exercise or test IT DR Plans.  There are also organizations who do not believe […]

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 is only one of several benefits.  Others include: Regulatory compliance.  Even if your organization is […]