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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve split this up into multiple posts already as it is a complex area for reasons that will become clear later. I think it is the complexity that drives some to measure the existence of the BCM process as opposed to the benefit it delivers. As I have stated before the existence of a comprehensive [...]

Having posted the Lipstick chart I wanted to add a couple of thoughts. The first is on why this early assessment is likely to be useful. At this stage we are of course creating a very rough assessment of the business. Some would argue that this is less than useful and would need to be [...]

Please excuse the title’s reference to Shakin’ Stevens. If you don’t know who Shakin’ Stevens is, then I would advise you to maintain your ignorance.
Over the last week I have been spending a lot of time with a number of clients who are busy developing their organisational resilience. One of the most useful techniques we [...]

Love this Ted talk from David Pogue. A very funny presentation on simplicity. Does your Business Continuity Process follow the Cult of Simplicity?

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.

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 [...]

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 planning is [...]

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 [...]