Standard Issue: Is Your BCM Standard Making Things Worse?
Sometimes business continuity or BCM standards can go from making your program better to holding it back. This can happen if you use the wrong standard or take the wrong approach to […]
Chaos Engineering and Disaster Recovery
Today’s post is the third in our three-part series on how chaos engineering might one day help us get better at business continuity and disaster recovery. In the first post, “What Is […]
Sweating the Big Stuff: 5 Things that Really Matter in BCM
Do you know the book “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff”? Today’s post is about sweating the big stuff. It lays out the five things that matter most for the success of your […]
Chaos Engineering and Business Continuity
The fascinating new discipline known as Chaos Engineering (CE) has the potential to bring big changes to business continuity. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post called, What Is Chaos […]
8 Dos and 1 Don’t for Conducting Disaster Recovery Tests
Hope is a great quality for a baseball team in a pennant race to have, but it is not very good as a business continuity strategy. This is why it is critical […]
A Pocket Guide to Business Continuity Management Now
Would you find it useful to read a cheat sheet setting out some of the main themes in business continuity management now? Well, here is my quick take on the main issues […]
Shark Attacks vs. Sunburn: Preparing for the Most Likely Problems
It must be human nature to worry more about serious dangers that are unlikely to happen than moderate ones whose likelihood of happening is high. This would explain why the term “shark […]
What Is Chaos Engineering and Why Should I Care?
Are you familiar with the term “chaos engineering?” If this is the first time, you’ve heard it, it probably won’t be the last time. Chaos engineering (CE) is a new approach to […]
IT Change Management: Don’t Leave Your Recovery Environment Behind
It is a strange irony that the changes organizations make to remain competitive frequently open them up to risk in their DR/BCM program and recovery capability. But when it comes to business […]
Dancing the Tango with Your Business Continuity Consultant
Some people who hire business continuity consultants think of them as being like waiters: they expect the consultant to serve them at their leisure then quietly go away, allowing them to enjoy […]
Kill the Zombies, or How to Get More From Your DR Exercises
Has your organization ever been attacked by zombies? We don’t know any companies that have been, although we do know some that have used this as a scenario in their disaster recovery […]
The BCM Trident: 3 KPIs That Can Sharpen Your Continuity Program
King Neptune gets power from his three-pronged trident, and those of us who work in business continuity can gain power from what I call the BCM Trident. That is, the three key performance […]