Category: Business Continuity

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March 15, 2013 |
by Jim Mitchell
Mar 15, 2013

Top Secret: Business Continuity Plans for Your Eyes Only

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 who might need to participate in the execution of my…
By Jim Mitchell
March 13, 2013 |
by Ramesh Warrier
Mar 13, 2013

When do you DR?

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,…
By Ramesh Warrier
March 7, 2013 |
by Ramesh Warrier
Mar 7, 2013

5 Reasons Disaster Recovery Exercises are Essential

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…
By Ramesh Warrier
March 5, 2013 |
by Jim Mitchell
Mar 5, 2013

The Value in Business Continuity Planning – Beyond Preparedness

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. …
By Jim Mitchell
March 4, 2013 |
by Jim Mitchell
Mar 4, 2013

12 Reasons to choose eBRP Suite

No Limits: Licensed for unlimited Users. No restrictions. Manage your Program, not Licenses. Resilient: High availability. Guaranteed 99% uptime. 24/7 access from anywhere.  If you can reach Internet, you’re in! Intelligent: All the Planning tools you need – plus simple-to-use modeling tools to create business intelligence: dependency information you need…
By Jim Mitchell
February 25, 2013 |
by Jim Mitchell
Feb 25, 2013

Caution: 6 Signs of a Business Continuity Plan in Trouble

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 appendix. A viable Business Continuity plan is actionable, applicable to…
By Jim Mitchell
February 14, 2013 |
by Ramesh Warrier
Feb 14, 2013

The Two Goals of a Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

During the most recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Crisis Management and Business Continuity Management teams of a large enterprise assembled in their US Emergency Operations Center as the first rockets struck Tel Aviv. Their primary concern was not the safety of their 500 employees in Israel. On their mind was the…
By Ramesh Warrier
February 7, 2013 |
by Ramesh Warrier
Feb 7, 2013

A Plan By any Other Name

If you talk with Business Continuity Planners from different organizations, you’ll end up with a whole list of Plan types they employ. These might include Business Continuity Plans (BCP), Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP), Crisis Management Plans (CMP), Continuity of Operations Plans (COOP), Supply-Chain Response Plans (SCP), Employee Safety, Evacuation Plans,…
By Ramesh Warrier
February 5, 2013 |
by Ramesh Warrier
Feb 5, 2013

8 Keys to Effective Continuity Plans

Not every Business Continuity Plan, IT Disaster Recovery Plan, Crisis Communication Plan or Incident Management Plan is guaranteed to work properly when it’s needed. Just because it’s been written doesn’t make it effective – even when it’s been tested. To improve the odds of a Plan’s ultimate success, here are…
By Ramesh Warrier
December 11, 2012 |
by Jim Mitchell
Dec 11, 2012

You Can’t Write Business Continuity Plans for Every Event

So Address the Loss of Assets – Not Potential Threats Black Swans and Super Storms:  It is impossible to create Business Continuity plans for every possible threat your organization could face.  Not only are the possibilities complex (every hurricane differs from every previous one), but the list of possible disruptions…
By Jim Mitchell