Year-End Roundup: Our Most Popular BCM Blogs of 2019
With the clock running out on 2019, there’s no better time than now to take a look back at our most popular posts of the year. In this last post before the […]
What It Takes: How to Succeed as a BCM Professional
Working as a business continuity practitioner can be deeply rewarding, but many people have the wrong idea of what the job is all about. In today’s post, we’ll tell you what it […]
Testing 1-2-3: Three Things You Should Know About Business Continuity Testing
An entire book could easily be written on business continuity testing —in fact, we’re developing an ebook on this topic right now. We plan to publish it next year, but in the […]
How to Manage Management: 8 Tips to Help You Bring Your Bosses on Board
Business continuity programs sink or swim depending on whether they have the support of senior management. In today’s post, we’ll share eight tips to help you bring your bosses on board in […]
As Easy as 1-2-3: How to Launch a Business Continuity Program
Many companies put off starting a business continuity program because they think doing so is too hard. In today’s post, we’ll boil down the process of launching a BC program to three […]
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 […]
Ditch the Data Silos: Improve Your Resiliency with Integrated Information
A hidden weakness in many organizations is that business continuity data is kept in different places, which causes confusion and can hinder access during an emergency. In today’s post, we’ll take a […]
Getting in Sync: Eliminating Recovery Strategy Gaps between BC and IT
Sometimes problems result when the IT department does its own recovery planning then BC comes along and conducts an analysis that shows IT’s plans to be inadequate. In today’s post, we’ll look […]
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 […]
Business Continuity, R.I.P.?
The reports of the death of the field of business continuity have been greatly overstated. But those of us who work in it do have to raise our performance in a few […]