Agile Business Continuity

For those of you who are paying attention, you will have noticed a number of posts appearing over the last few days. I’ve added a new feature to the blog which grabs the latest business continuity stories from my Google Reader feed and writes a summary post to the blog every day. So now you [...]

For many of the people I have spoken to regarding the BCM process, the exercising of their plans has a number of expected outcomes. The first is validation and the second is staff training. If you look to the standards then there is a third outcome, that of identifying vulnerabilities within the current response. For [...]

Conference panelist needed for cell/satellite discussion
Greetings, I’m moderating a conference panel discussion on communications technology during disasters and I’m looking for one or two panelists very familiar …

MP taken to task over Hertfordshire data loss
Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for home affairs, has refused to comment on the recent data loss incident involving St [...]

Last week’s series on measuring resilience was well received, so thank you to all who took the time to comment and email me. I had intended this series to run for a couple of more days, but I suspect if I continued working through my notes we would be well into next year with Measuring [...]

Risk Assessment – Measuring Resilience Part 4
Talking Point: Is risk a good measure of the resilience of your business and therefore the efficacy of your business continuity process?
Within Business Continuity, and indeed most governance process …

INSTR 2010 – Call for papers
I can’t believe I haven’t mentioned this conference on my blog before., because the call [...]

Talking Point: Is risk a good measure of the resilience of your business and therefore the efficacy of your business continuity process?
Within Business Continuity, and indeed most governance processes, risk is a trigger for action within the process. As a result the Business Continuity process should have a direct affect on the level of [...]

I was intending to discuss risk and it’s relationship with resilience, but have decided to expand a little on the subject matter I touched on yesterday. So today’s talking point is: if Key Performance Indicators drive behaviour, then what happens when we don’t maintain a measure of resilience?
Business metrics can be broken down into a [...]

Imagine a dashboard that tracks your progress in business continuity management. What would it look like? If you look at some of the suggested approaches they tend to cluster around proving the existence of the BCM process. As discussed in previous posts, although these indicate the maturity of the process it does not attempt to [...]

I’ve split this up into multiple posts already as it is a complex area for reasons that will become clear later. I think it is the complexity that drives some to measure the existence of the BCM process as opposed to the benefit it delivers. As I have stated before the existence of a comprehensive [...]

Today a comment on this blog by Ken Simpson has prompted me to put down my thoughts on resilience and measuring the efficacy of business continuity management. Ken has just started his Comtemplating … blog and I look forward to reading his own thoughts.
I have decided to split up my resilience measurements post up into [...]