Agile Business Continuity

I had titled this post what’s the point of business continuity but thought better of it. In response to the question there are a number of answers but I fear they do not appreciate the real benefit of the practice. Let us start with the basic response, it helps your business/organisation recover from foreseen and [...]

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 [...]