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 kudos [...]

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 [...]

As we move towards the festive period I wanted to make one more comment about organisational behaviours and the Lipstick Chart.
Let us begin with a key question, and one which I now regularly ask all my clients.
Imagine your organisation in 12 months time. It has a higher level of resilience than it exhibits today. How [...]

For those of you who haven’t discovered Stoneroads Blog on all things business continuity, can I advise you take a look. Great stuff.

I recently ran a client assessment looking at the level of staff resilience within an organisation. I note this is a current theme with the publishing of a new framework by IBM: The Personal Side Of Business Continuity: Addressing Human Capital Management Issues During Crises“.
Anyway, back to my client assessment. I carried out an assessment [...]

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 [...]

Last year I sat with a Risk Manager of a large public body who had implemented a comprehensive business continuity programme. If we had run this manager’s programme through an assessment he would have no doubt had a high compliance score. However, he felt strongly that his organisation was no more resilient as a result [...]

I recently read an article by Michael Herrera which describes his companies approach to assessing the maturity of an organisations business continuity programme. His companies approach is similar to a number of assessment which I’ve seen published over the past few months. The idea of metrics being applied to business continuity is currently the hot [...]