A Little Help: How to Select a BCM Consultant
Finding a good business continuity management consultant can be hard. Today’s post is a list of 12 steps to help you find the right BCM consulting firm for your engagement. Related on […]
Taking Care of Business: How to Write a Business Recovery Plan
Last time, we looked at how to write recovery plans to protect your organization’s computer systems and applications. In today’s post we’re going to lay out how to write plans to recover […]
Powering On: How to Be Ready for a Power Outage
Extreme weather is making power outages more frequent, and work from home has not made the issue go away. In today’s blog, we’ll look at how you can help prepare your organization […]
The Science and Art of Writing an IT/DR Recovery Plan
There are two main aspects to writing a disaster recovery plan: The science of knowing what to include and the art of writing the content. Today’s blog takes a look at both […]
BIA Blunders: 6 Common Mistakes Organizations Make When Conducting BIAs
The Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is one of the fundamental building blocks of a sound business continuity management program. In today’s post, we’ll look at six mistakes companies commonly make in conducting […]
A Matter of Time: When SMEs Are Prevented from Helping With BCM
When it comes to business continuity management, many otherwise rational organizations behave in an irrational way. They make a commitment to improve their BCM program then sharply limit the amount of time […]
Stack Attack: A Brief Guide to the IT Stack for BC Professionals
Business continuity professionals need a minimal grasp of IT concepts in order to do their jobs, but many BC pros are in a fog when it comes to IT terminology. In today’s post we’re […]
BCM Software Buyer’s Guide: Five Things to Know Before You Buy
This BCM software buyer’s guide provides five questions every company should know the answers to before it lays out big bucks for BCM software. I’ve seen it too often: a company spends […]
A Sample Threat and Risk Assessment: The Case of Acme Widget Corp.
A picture is worth a thousand words, and an example might be worth a thousand pictures. In today’s post, we present a sample Threat and Risk Assessment. The original of this TRA was for […]
Think Defense: Learning from the Defense Dept. About Operational Risk
Business continuity professionals can learn a lot from the U.S. Dept. of Defense’s approach to operational risk management. In today’s post, I’ll summarize the DOD’s five-step approach to ORM and explain how […]
Hit or Myth: 5 Common Misconceptions About IT/disaster recovery
One definition of a myth is something you know for sure that happens to be untrue. Today we’re going to look at five commonly held myths about IT/disaster recovery. These are things […]