More Than Meets the Eye: The Hidden Benefits of BC Planning
Everyone knows business continuity planning can help organizations prepare for emergencies. Less well known is the fact that BC program elements can often be leveraged to support day-to-day operations and help with […]
Learning the Local Culture: BCM Pros Need to Suit Their Programs to the Locality
It’s human nature for people to take the assumptions of their culture for granted, not realizing that people elsewhere might look at things in a radically different way. Business continuity management (BCM) […]
The Best Policy: The Core Element of a Good BCM Program Is Honesty
You can’t have a good business continuity management or BCM program without the core elements of BIAs, TRAs, recovery plans, and exercises, but it’s possible that the most important element of all […]
The Face of Danger: The 5 Most Common Business Continuity Threats
The disasters that figure in the headlines change from day to day because the media love novelty. The events that cause business the most problems year after year tend to be the […]
Staying Current: Why You Need to Keep Your BCM Plans Up to Date
Many organizations bring great energy to the job of creating new business continuity plans, then they put them on a shelf and allow the passage of time to make them obsolete. In today’s post, we’ll look at […]
Silver Lining: Could a Negative Year Bring Positive Changes to BCM?
Even horrible events can sometimes lead to a few good consequences. Without minimizing the awful toll of COVID-19, it’s worth noting that the pandemic has driven a handful of positive changes in […]
Boutique BCM Firms: Good Things Come in Small Packages
Companies seeking help with their business continuity management programs can choose between giant consulting companies, small boutique firms, or something in between. When you’re choosing a business continuity consulting firm, quality help […]
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 […]
Accentuate the Positive: Recognizing Your BCM Program Strengths
In business continuity, we have a tendency to focus on what’s wrong with our programs or organizations. However, it’s important that we also take time to recognize what we’re doing right. Today’s […]
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Using Business Continuity Templates
Many organizations use templates to help them craft their business continuity plans. In our opinion, this is an excellent way of going about doing it. The “good” of using templates is significant […]
The Benefits of a Business Continuity Program
We’ve mentioned multiple times that implementing a BCM program can be challenging and at times painful. No one likes to point out their business’s vulnerabilities. Many times the investment of time and […]
10 Benefits Of Business Continuity Planning
Business continuity planning can help your organization in more ways than one.