Write or Wrong: Five Common BCM Documentation Mistakes
Having quality documentation is an important part of a sound business continuity management program, but it’s not the most important part. In today’s post, we’ll look at this and four other mistakes […]
The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery
The rise in the use of third-party computing services has given many companies a false sense of security regarding the recoverability of their IT systems. In today’s post we’ll look at why […]
BCM Basics: “Continuity” Defined
This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. People new to our field are often puzzled by […]
The Only Guide to Crisis Management Training You’ll Ever Need
Many executives think practice is for grinds and star performers do things by the seat of their pants, but when it comes to crisis management, this approach is a good way to […]
These 8 Risk Domains Are the Meat and Potatoes of Risk Management
As a practical activity, enterprise risk management (ERM) centers on eight distinct risk domains, some strategic and some operational. In today’s post, we’ll lay out what these domains are, reveal which ones […]
Risk Governance: To Stay Safe, Write Policies Addressing These Five Areas
Whether the company you work for has five employees or 5,000, it should have a risk governance program. Specifically, it should have policies and procedures covering the five key areas of data […]
Leading by (Bad) Example: Companies in the News Show What Not to Do
It’s never very hard to find examples of companies whose casual approach to resiliency and crisis management has come back to bite them. Two of the latest are Ticketmaster and Southwest Airlines. […]
Why Every BC Professional Should Become a Gap Hunter
Business continuity professionals who want to make their organizations more resilient should make a conscious effort to become gap hunters. Time spent identifying and closing gaps in the organization’s preparedness is an […]
Gone With the Wind: 12 BCM Practices That Have Become Outdated
The past couple of decades have seen huge changes in the world and our field. Read on for a list of a dozen business continuity practices that have fallen into disuse or […]
A BC Consultant’s View of the Risks of Generative AI
These days everyone is talking about the risks of generative AI technology such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool. In today’s blog, we’ll look at those risks from the point of view of a […]
Testing, Testing: Our Best Blogs on BC Testing and Mock Disaster Exercises
In business continuity, testing of all types can lay claim to a rare distinction: it is simultaneously one of the most important parts of any program, and one of the most neglected. […]
Reviewing the Five Types of Risk
The recent announcement of the official end of the COVID-19 pandemic makes this a good time to review the five types of risk. During COVID, business tended to focus on only two […]
