Perhaps it’s the longer days or the warmer temperatures.  Summer changes how we perceive our world.  Sunny days and warm evenings generate idyllic visions of beaches, exotic travel, cool mountain breezes, holidays and vacations.  At work, there is a general feeling that things have slowed down.  Perhaps they have, but unlike the days before air-conditioning, […]

This is the 4th in a series of articles discussing the future of Business Continuity Management.  The series starts here.  In today’s business ecosystem, with RTO’s approaching zero and new threats emerge with regularity, organizations can ill afford to pay for Business Continuity teams that simply write Plans – to meet regulatory and audit requirements, […]

For some time, Government agencies (especially in North America) have focused their Business Continuity efforts (or Continuity of Operations, COOP, as they often prefer to call them) on an ‘All-Hazards’ planning approach. Several years ago, I attended a presentation by a major US Government institution.  The presenter began by defining Continuity of Operations “COOP is […]