Checking It Twice: The Corporate Risk Mitigation Checklist
In recent posts, we’ve been talking about how important it is for organizations to reassess their risks as the economy opens up. Today, we provide a tool to help in doing that: […]
Know Your Gaps: Manage Residual Risk to Keep Your Company Safe
Over the past 18 months, most organizations have made changes to their business continuity plans to increase their resiliency. Unfortunately, few have taken the critical next step of measuring and managing the […]
Who Does What: The Most Critical Job Roles in IT Disaster Recovery
There’s a lot more to IT Disaster Recovery than backups and recovery. In today’s post we’ll look at the IT/DR job functions that must be performed in order to ensure that any […]
Debunked: 9 Common Business Continuity Myths
As with most fields, business continuity has its fair share of beliefs that are commonly held but contrary to the truth. In today’s post, we’ll look at nine business continuity myths and […]
Surviving the Spike: Managing the Second Wave of COVID-19 as a BC Professional
The current spike in COVID-19 cases combined with the approach of winter flu season brings new challenges for organizations in general and business continuity management professionals in particular. In today’s post, we’ll […]
Mark My Words: Commonly Confused Business Continuity Terms
Many people who are new to business continuity get tripped up by vocabulary. In today’s post, we’ll try to set the record straight on some of the most commonly misunderstood business continuity […]
Continuing to Thrive: A Definition of Business Continuity
If you are new to the world of business continuity, you might have asked yourself, What exactly is business continuity, anyway? In today’s post, we’re going to define business continuity by taking […]
A Robust Business Continuity Plan in 20 Steps
Contrary to popular belief, a business continuity plan is not a single document but an aggregate of assessments, processes, and checklists. In today’s post, we’ll lay out the process of creating a […]
The Plan that Time Forgot: The Importance of Protecting Your Business Processes
When it comes to protecting your business, department-level business continuity plans make a critical difference. Achieving true resiliency at an organization depends on its being robustly prepared in three areas: crisis management, […]
The Cost of Calamity: How Being Unprepared Can Harm An Organization
It’s important for business continuity professionals to be knowledgeable about the ways being unprepared for disruptions can harm their organization. How else are they going to make the case to senior management […]
BC’s Big Four: The Most Disruptive Problems in Business Continuity
In business continuity, there is a gap between perception and reality in terms of what kinds of problems cause most of the disruptions. In today’s post, we’ll look at BC’s Big Four: […]