As fields such as business continuity, risk management and security management, to name but a few, develop, they often develop different branches and specialities. With the multiplication of concepts and methods, the original discipline isn’t big enough to hold them all, or so it seems. Yet resilience management is something that bucks that trend. It…
If the names of Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen don’t immediately strike a chord, at least in business continuity, you could be forgiven. Yet their sage advice has been around for some time. It dates from 1944, when they wrote the lyrics and the music for the song “Accentuate the Positive”. How does it go?…
It had to happen. Just having “the Cloud” was too simple. In the same way that the Internet morphed into intranets, extranets and more, cloud computing is now branching out into internal, external, inter-, public and private clouds. Vendors and service providers alike have seen the opportunity to leverage existing solutions and create their own…
“Do it now”, “do it faster”, “do more”,… While these may all be justifiable goals on their own, the problem comes when production pressure like this has a negative impact on business continuity plans and actions. BC planning is preventive and its objective is the absence of disruption to a business. However, it can therefore…
Presented as the offspring of business continuity planning, emotional continuity management has been around for a few years now. The concept links emotional distress in the workplace with a negative impact on productivity, and conversely emotional wellbeing with a positive impact. People who feel good perform better. People who don’t fall apart emotionally when disaster…
If you think your organisation is in an earthquake-free zone, you may be right – up to a point. From a purely local point of view, your site may never have experienced the slightest tremor or be likely to. On the other hand, you may also be using suppliers for raw materials or components that…