Perhaps I’m just a curmudgeon (a crusty, ill-tempered old man), but it irks me when someone uses the term “Business Continuity” exclusively to refer to IT planning.  Perhaps I’ve been in this industry too long.  I remember when IT planning was referred to as “Disaster Recovery”, and only business operations used the term “Business Continuity”.  […]

An excellent, recent article in Information Week online, entitled “5 Reasons Your Employees Don’t Care About Business Continuity” dealt with what I might categorize as ‘symptoms’ of non-participation. There are some fundamental problems in many organizations (and in their Business Continuity Management programs) that discourage participation – and often assure its failure. Those are the […]

“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 for the response to be predictable and effective. One key element of that science is […]