Lessons from 150 Years of Business Continuity Experience
Take a look at top lessons learned from our staff’s combined 150 years of business continuity experience. Use our knowledge to benefit your BCM plans. When I look at my children and […]
Resiliency Theater – You May Not Really Be Prepared for an Outage
We spend time preparing for major data center or facility outages. We perform a risk analysis and write plans; we put in technologies to keep the business running and perform various tests. […]
Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja
We are living in a golden age in terms of the easy availability of high-quality information on how organizations can make themselves more resilient. In today’s post we’ll look at the top […]
Employee Readiness – Do Your Employees Know What To Do?
Your organization’s actual ability to respond to and recover from an event is directly related to employee readiness across the organization. It is important to note that too many times we train only […]
Developing Disaster Recovery Strategies
The right disaster recovery strategies can mean the difference between a swift recovery and a business-imploding We know. Disaster recovery isn’t a fun subject. Sometimes it can When developing functional disaster recovery […]
Benefits of Business Continuity and Recovery Testing
Business Continuity and Recovery Testing is critical to ensuring that your plan documentation is functional and accurate. As part of our responsibilities as Business Continuity professionals, we spend a significant amount of […]
When A Good Recovery Strategy is Better than a Perfect Recovery Strategy
Your recovery strategy does not have to be perfect, but it does need to be good enough. Remember, perfect is the enemy of good. When I worked in the IT department at […]
Risk Acceptance – Conscious Decision or Ignorance?
Risk Acceptance must be a conscious decision, not a default action due to lack of information or desire to act. Risk Assessments and Risk Mitigation remain important topics in many association groups […]
Do You Know the Current Business Climate?
Understanding how the business climate is changing will allow to you start looking at how you may need to change your recovery and resiliency strategies. I was recently talking with my father […]
Understanding Actual Risks to Your Organization
Understanding actual risks to your organization is a good place to start with any competent business continuity and resilience plan. There is not a single risk profile. Depending on the type […]
BC Program Capability – Objective or Not?
When you look at the state of your business continuity program, are you looking at it objectively? Here’s how to honestly judge your BC program compatibility. We may not want to admit […]
Communicating During an Emergency Event
Effective communication can make or break your business during a crisis event. Learn what effectively communicating during an emergency event looks like. We spend hours developing plans and strategies – preparing for […]