Agile Business Continuity

The Agile Continuity Blog will be one year old in January and during this time I have gathered a huge list of related blogs and online resources. One of the features I introduced a couple of weeks ago was the BlogoSphere Focus which allowed me to explore a number of useful blogs in the resilience [...]

A couple of days ago Ken Simpson posted an interesting question in respect to resilience. As I promised yesterday I wanted to explore a definition in more detail. I have blogged about this previously, so my apologies for going over old ground, but as Ken has identified, a common understanding is key if we are [...]

In a recent post on Ken Simpson’s Contemplating … Blog, Ken discussed the problems with the emergence of the resilience focus within BCM. Congratulations on your speaking engagement Ken and I for one would certainly want to attend. I’ll be posting a response to the whole resilience question tomorrow, but for now would like to [...]

I’ve noticed an increase in the use of terms such as agile and adaptability in the mainstream marketing materials of the usual suspects. I don’t doubt their sincerity but I suspect they are using the wrong shorthand. If you are an executive then the very last thing you want is an agile business. A business [...]

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 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 [...]

I recently read an article by Michael Herrera which describes his companies approach to assessing the maturity of an organisations business continuity programme. His companies approach is similar to a number of assessment which I’ve seen published over the past few months. The idea of metrics being applied to business continuity is currently the hot [...]

Sometimes when speaking to business continuity practitioners you can be forgiven for thinking that the whole process is an exercise is ticking boxes and generating documents. Unfortunately, confusing the process and its products with the end goal will inevitably fail to deliver the expected result. The expected result and therefore the goal is of course [...]