Agile Business Continuity

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 [...]

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 [...]