Agile Business Continuity

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 [...]

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 members [...]

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 [...]

The industry has been fairly supportive of the new British Standard for Business Continuity Management, BS-25999. That is as it should be as the standard is a significant step forward in raising the profile of business continuity and best practise. However, there is a belief held by some business continuity managers that one of their [...]