Agile Business Continuity

Alex Fullick is the founder of Business Continuity Consultancy firm Stone Road Inc working out of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. The Stoneroad’s blog has been around since February 2009 and Alex is a regular poster with much to say about the practice of delivering business continuity. For more information about Alex and his company you may [...]

Jan Husdal is a Researcher with the Transport Economics Research Group at Møreforsking Molde/Molde Research Institute in Molde, Norway. His website and blog Husdal.com is quickly becoming an important resource for risk management, business continuity and in particular supply chain risk research. You can follow Jan on twitter at @janhusdal and he aslo has a [...]

This post is way off topic today, but I wanted to respond to an email I received yesterday. A chap from Sydney, Australia emailed me to say how much he liked the blog and to ask how to get involved in the blogosphere. I sent him a quick email in response, but then decided that [...]

Ken Simpson is a Business Continuity professional working out of Canberra, Australia for The VR Group. Although his blog Contemplating … is a fairly new addition to the blogosphere, he regularly posts on topics that should interest us all. I especially appreciate the time Ken has taken to comment here at the ABC blog. You [...]

Today I am introducing a new irregular series focussed on introducing my readership to Business Continuity practitioners, Risk Managers and Disaster Recovery experts who are active bloggers. Each post will focus on a single blogger and their blog as well as additional information about them. Although there are not many active resilience bloggers out there, [...]

Where did all the podcasts go? I remember a few years ago that everyone was podcasting their hearts out, but they seems to have cut short their efforts. That doesn’t mean to say that there isn’t good content out there. iTunes continues to maintain a list of these podcasts and some episodes remain available. So [...]

I spent sometime last night getting the web directory sorted out. This is an area where I list online resources relating to business continuity. It was becoming a little unmanageable from my point of view and I know usability was becoming an issue. The new layout means that the categories are listed at the top [...]

I recently ran a client assessment looking at the level of staff resilience within an organisation. I note this is a current theme with the publishing of a new framework by IBM: The Personal Side Of Business Continuity: Addressing Human Capital Management Issues During Crises“.
Anyway, back to my client assessment. I carried out an assessment [...]

Cargo Cults were created as tribal cultures were exposed to technologically advanced explorers. One of the last surviving examples is the John Frum Movement on Tanna island which is part of the Republic of Vanuatu. A characteristic feature of cargo cults is the belief that spirits will gift cargo and valuable products to cult [...]

I thought I would spend a little time discussing an aspect of dependency modelling theory. I have spent that last couple of weeks working with a client on modelling their business for business continuity purposes. There was a great deal of discussion regarding how to model dependencies within the organisation (internal dependency). We use a [...]