Agile Business Continuity

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 [...]

I love the TED talks, or at the very least the idea of the TED talks. Some speakers can be rather more inspiring than others. I still have a number of talks to watch but felt moved to point out a recent talk by science writer Malcolm Gladwell.

Once upon a time there was an IT director of a financial services organisation who really believed that the organisation should focus on resilience. So much so that he would regularly tour the different sites throughout Europe and challenge each Head of Department with a single question.

Your email system has just gone down and it [...]

Embedding business continuity practises into any organisation is a tough job for any individual tasked with the role of business continuity manager. Again and again I hear how a lack of real commitment from the executive and a general misunderstanding of the benefits is hampering an individuals efforts. As a result many of the continuity [...]

Forgive me father for it has been a too many days since my last blog post. I have been very busy which is unfortunate as there is much to blog about. I’d like to start by referring back to a post by Hasdal regarding The Theory of Constraints. A very interesting concept which has prompted [...]

I very much enjoy my conversations with emergency planners and business continuity managers throughout the UK and beyond. Yesterday, I had the great pleasure of speaking with a very senior planner here in the UK. Once again I was surprised at how different the perception of the real workers in business continuity differs from that [...]

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 [...]

Please note that I said that Business Continuity is simple, I didn’t say it was easy. Business Continuity is indeed a simple process to understand, it is the implementation that is difficult. Anyone who is familiar with either the BCI Good Practise Guide or the British Standard can provide a fairly comprehensive overview in less [...]