Agile Business Continuity

I do love Google Reader and the random things you find to inspire and delight. Today I discovered the following image, which captures the essence of a subject I have written about before. So here is yet another riff on KISS, but from an ever so slightly different angle. I love this slide, and much [...]

After Jan’s comment on my previous Location Location Location post I did a quick google search and found that Eisenhower was not the only leader who understood that the value of planning wasn’t necessarily the plan. Britain’s wartime leader Winston Churchill seemed to agree whole heartedly with Eisenhower’s point: Plans are of little importance, but [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday I had a very interesting conversation with a Director of a Continuity Services company. While we were discussing the continuity process he started to speak in more detail about his own real world experiences of disaster recovery and business continuity. During this discussion he confirmed a principle that I have been riffing on for [...]