Agile Business Continuity

With the end of 2009 almost upon us it is often time for reflection on the year gone by and preparation for the year to come. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my readers for taking the time to visit the blog. A special thanks to those who took the time to [...]

The Agile Continuity Blog will be one year old in January and during this time I have gathered a huge list of related blogs and online resources. One of the features I introduced a couple of weeks ago was the BlogoSphere Focus which allowed me to explore a number of useful blogs in the resilience [...]

A couple of days ago Ken Simpson posted an interesting question in respect to resilience. As I promised yesterday I wanted to explore a definition in more detail. I have blogged about this previously, so my apologies for going over old ground, but as Ken has identified, a common understanding is key if we are [...]

In a recent post on Ken Simpson’s Contemplating … Blog, Ken discussed the problems with the emergence of the resilience focus within BCM. Congratulations on your speaking engagement Ken and I for one would certainly want to attend. I’ll be posting a response to the whole resilience question tomorrow, but for now would like to [...]

Following on from my post on blogging, I decided to extend this to include another great way of engaging with fellow resilience practitioners. Welcome to the wonderful world of Twitter.
Twitter is the leader in a category of tools that support microblogging. It allows you to post short messages (in Twitter’s case 140 characters) that can [...]

This post is way off topic today, but I wanted to respond to an email I received yesterday. A chap from Sydney, Australia emailed me to say how much he liked the blog and to ask how to get involved in the blogosphere. I sent him a quick email in response, but then decided that [...]

I’ve noticed an increase in the use of terms such as agile and adaptability in the mainstream marketing materials of the usual suspects. I don’t doubt their sincerity but I suspect they are using the wrong shorthand. If you are an executive then the very last thing you want is an agile business. A business [...]

Ken Simpson recently blogged how often we mistake the tool for the process in response to Trevor Levine’s (Riskczar) Risk management technology is not risk managment and I thought I would toss my own two pence worth in. The point that Trevor identifies is all too common across many disciplines. We do have this tendency [...]

Where did all the podcasts go? I remember a few years ago that everyone was podcasting their hearts out, but they seems to have cut short their efforts. That doesn’t mean to say that there isn’t good content out there. iTunes continues to maintain a list of these podcasts and some episodes remain available. So [...]

Following on from my post yesterday regarding Want a Better Plan Get A Better Process, I started thinking about an event that happened in the dim and distant past. I was engaged by a multinational to audit one of their key business development projects and to look at the team capabilities and methodology being applied. [...]