Agile Business Continuity

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]