Agile Business Continuity

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 [...]

Your plans are in place and you’ve got sign off at every level. But deep down you know that the plans aren’t up to scratch and significant risks are not being addressed. Is this enough?

I recommend the book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb to anyone with an interest in risk management. Not only is it a thoroughly good read it has a solid smattering of mathematics for those of us who like that sort of thing.