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 [...]

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

Another thought regarding my earlier post this week on the lipstick chart. We use this chart in a number of different ways and it is useful in expressing the relative importance of key business activities. As discussed previously the chart is initially used to capture quick judgements on criticality which can later be refined [...]

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 [...]

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.