I had titled this post what’s the point of business continuity but thought better of it. In response to the question there are a number of answers but I fear they do not appreciate the real benefit of the practice. Let us start with the basic response, it helps your business/organisation recover from foreseen and unforeseen events in a manner that protects your primary stakeholders.
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Since I took a break from the blog there have been some interesting posts from other bloggers, that I have only recently had time to catch up on. One which caught my eye was from the the Business Continuity Guru Blog by John Ames entitled BCP Documentation – Keep It Simple & Uniform. In this post John asserts that software is causing much frustration amongst his small and medium sized clients and that the solution to this is a much simpler approach using standard templates. I can sympathise with his client’s frustration, but doubt that software is the issue, although there is clearly some truly badly designed software out there.
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At the back end of last week I had one of the most surprising discussions that I’ve had over the past few months. I found myself with a well respected business continuity consultant who I agreed with. Moreover I had a few things to learn from him. Please don’t assume that I believe I have nothing to learn, it’s just that I meet so many people who have nothing new to say. As I’ve said before I have little time for some of the very poor work being done in the area of continuity and to meet an individual who shared my frustration was a surprising event.
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Hello to all. The beginning of this year has been interesting for me to say the least. I’ve been busy with clients and work so have failed to pick the blog back up as I had hoped. So my Christmas holiday from the blog ended up being a little longer than expected. I also transferred the blog to another hosting company which took a little longer than I expected.
All of that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy writing. I have numerous notes, experiences and observations I would like to share. So welcome to the Agile Business Continuity Blog continued. Since I keep a paper based journal, I will be dipping in to that and doing a little back posting, so you may want to keep an eye out for new past posts.
Okay so I know it has little to do with business continuity, perhaps disaster recovery. I just wanted to share my love of Google and their services. I’ve been using these services for years to maintain my private email, calendar, etc. In my business life I work remotely most of the time and am rarely in the office which used to mean VPNing (is it a verb … it is now) back to the office. I’ve finally moved my team over to the Google Cloud. Take a look for yourself at Google Apps For Business.
I had titled this post what’s the point of business continuity but thought better of it. In response to the question there are a number of answers but I fear they do not appreciate the real benefit of the practice. Let us start with the basic response, it helps your business/organisation recover from foreseen and unforeseen events in a manner that protects your primary stakeholders.
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