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, […]
Rethinking Risk: A Better Way to Think About Risk in Business Continuity Management
Few organizations think about risk in a rational manner, which commonly leads to unnecessary expenditures and dangerous gaps in their business continuity planning. In today’s post, we’re going to look at a […]
The Write Stuff: How to Create and Maintain Business Continuity Documentation
Good documentation is one of the pillars of a strong business continuity program, but it’s one that often gets left out. In today’s post, we’ll look at how to create BC documentation, […]
The Right Way to Write an RFP for Business Continuity Services
When clients issue RFPs for business continuity services that are vague and contradictory, the result is a disappointment for the client and bewilderment for prospective BC service providers. In today’s post, I’ll […]
8 Bad Things: The Most Common Business Continuity Threats
People in business continuity talk a lot about black swans: unexpected events that come from outside normal experience and have strongly negative effects. Black swan events are definitely worth thinking about and […]
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: […]
For Want of a Nail: The Importance of Meticulous Execution in BC and IT/DR
We often see companies devise excellent strategies for their business continuity and IT/disaster recovery planning but meet with failure in practice due to small lapses and gaps in their BC execution. In […]
Rationale vs. Reality: The Bad Reasons Businesses Give for Skimping on BCM
Most companies that underinvest in business continuity can give you a reason why they do so, but those reasons are almost always ill-founded. In today’s post, we’ll look at the most common […]
Don’t Just Hope: Choosing Strategies to Mitigate Risk
Once you’ve identified the risks facing your organization, you need to consciously select a risk mitigation strategy for each one. In today’s post, we’ll explain the four possible strategies and share some […]
Your Very First Task: Scout the Business Continuity Territory
So you’ve just been put in charge of business continuity at your organization. What’s the first thing you should do? In today’s post, we’ll tell you—and also explain why it’s important and […]
How Do BCM Offices Fail? Let Us Count the Ways
There are a lot of ways that business continuity programs go off track. Here are some of the main ones, together with a list of what successful programs do to keep rolling […]
Go Pro: Every BCM Practitioner Should Know About DRI’s “Professional Practices”
It’s easy to get lost in the weeds in talking about Business Continuity and IT/Disaster Recovery. For a bird’s-eye view of the field, you might find it helpful to check out Disaster […]