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 [...]

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 [...]