Where is Your BCM Roadmap Taking Your Program in 2015?
Where is your BCM roadmap taking your program in 2015? Do you even have a roadmap to guide your efforts? Do you find you and your team more focused on fighting day […]
Leadership During a Crisis
A crisis, by definition, is unpredictable and can be highly damaging to an organization. In the event a crisis occurs, it needs to be managed; by mismanaging, an organization’s brand value could […]
Recovery Exercise Planning, Execution and Reporting
Recovery exercises are where it all comes together in a continuity-planning program. You have done all the hard work and are now ready to exercise your recovery plans and strategies. But, too […]
Auditing Plans
Auditing BCP plans is crucial to ensuring a consistent product is being developed across the organization. Inconsistency raises the potential for failure of recovery should the plan be activated. In our audit […]
Writing BCP’s
Writing BCP’s is where the rubber meets the road. You may have a sound recovery strategy in place but if your business units do not have the cookbook to execute a successful […]
Making Difficult BCP Presentations
As a consultant, we often make highly charged presentations in front of people with a critical eye. This is often at presentations to close new business or advise management of critical exposures. […]
Back to the Basics – BCP 101
Developing a BCP program requires a sound methodology to ensure consistency of application and level of results. Using the Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII) model as our baseline, we break a typical […]
Preparing Our BCP Programs for 2010
As we look back at 2009, it was a trying year for all of us. We have definitely seen the impact to BCP programs across our client base in the United States. […]
Have You Forecasted Your Recovery Exercises for the Next 12 to 24 Months?
Do you know what you are going to be exercising over the next 12 to 24 months in your recovery program? Have you forecasted what business units and systems/applications will be exercised […]
IT Pandemic Planning – How Will Your IT Organization Continue to Support Itself and the Business?
Does your Information Technology function have a sound Pandemic plan? For many of our clients, IT has some of the most dramatic reliance on key individuals. We have clients with hundreds of IT […]
Using 30-Minute Mock Disaster Exercises to Keep Your Team Sharp
Do you want to keep your recovery team personnel sharp, thinking on their feet, and the BCP process fresh in their minds? We all want multiple half-day exercises each year to entrench […]
So You Want to Be a BCP Consultant?
On my travels across the USA on client engagements, I am often asked what does it take to be a successful consultant in the field of BCP. In mulling this over, below […]
