Agile Business Continuity

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 [...]

Last week’s series on measuring resilience was well received, so thank you to all who took the time to comment and email me. I had intended this series to run for a couple of more days, but I suspect if I continued working through my notes we would be well into next year with Measuring [...]

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 [...]

I was intending to discuss risk and it’s relationship with resilience, but have decided to expand a little on the subject matter I touched on yesterday. So today’s talking point is: if Key Performance Indicators drive behaviour, then what happens when we don’t maintain a measure of resilience? Business metrics can be broken down into [...]

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 [...]