On May 29, 2019, I performed a Google search for the words “Business Risk Management Approach” in news headlines. I got close to 5,000 results from just the previous 24 hours. I am sure I [...]
Many organizations think that effective business continuity planning is synonymous with great plan documentation. It’s not. Yes, plan documentation is extremely important. BUT… many organizations fail to recognize that effective business continuity plans – and [...]
The 2019 edition of the American National Standard, “NFPA 1600 Standard on Continuity, Emergency, and Crisis Management” has been published by the USA-based National Fire Protection Association. This standard, which is the most mature standard [...]
Introduction On the west side of the city sits an outfitting shop that sells everything a person needs to survive in the wild; to the owner, resilience means being able to live without modern conveniences. [...]
We’ve all been there. It’s annual budget time and we are told that belts are tightening and we have to cut costs. Where does the finance organization look first for savings? That’s right… to the [...]
IT Disaster Recovery (ITDR) is about 40 years old and its younger sibling Business Continuity (BC) has passed the 30-year mark. The premise for ITDR was that we needed to be capable of dealing with [...]
One of the biggest challenges that someone charged with overseeing a Business Continuity Program has is to prove that the program is worth its cost: “What is your program’s ROI?” I call that the “dreaded [...]
Security and Business Leaders: A Communications Gap When I find myself talking to a group of security professionals, eventually the topic will turn to whatever security breach was in the news that morning, and how [...]
Introduction To be successful in a crisis, it requires preparation. And being prepared requires two things from each and every one responding: They must be in a constant state of readiness. Since we usually don’t [...]
Supply Chain Risk The exact nature of Organizational Resilience and how it differs from traditional Business Continuity has generated much heated debate and very few definite conclusions over the past five years. One concept most [...]
Having started as a consultancy twenty-five years ago, we learned that software tools should enable the planning process and not force the organization to adapt to the tool. You already know how best to implement [...]
Exercises are the “bread and butter” of emergency management. they are the way we train our staff, validate our plans, and prove that we can recover our company, organization or agency. What I have observed [...]