Last year I sat with a Risk Manager of a large public body who had implemented a comprehensive business continuity programme. If we had run this manager’s programme through an assessment he would have no doubt had a high compliance score. However, he felt strongly that his organisation was no more resilient as a result [...]
Embedding business continuity practises into any organisation is a tough job for any individual tasked with the role of business continuity manager. Again and again I hear how a lack of real commitment from the executive and a general misunderstanding of the benefits is hampering an individuals efforts. As a result many of the continuity [...]
Business continuity practitioners are in reality system designers who develop, realise and maintain a business continuity management system. The difficulty facing any system designer is that the stake-holders will tend to demand much from the system while requiring it to be easy to use. This is clearly a difficult set of requirements to deliver. In [...]
It’s the 23rd of March and your business continuity champions need to deliver their plans to you by the 1st of April. Your phoning round and sending out kick ass emails, but what’s really happening out in the organisation? The answer, you would want to hear, is that your champion community frantically updating their plans.
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