Production has them. So does supply chain, and finance; for sales, it’s practically a no-brainer. Yes, it’s the departmental dashboard – that one page summary of key performance data, typically in a graphical format with pie charts, bar charts and the like. You get at-a-glance information on how well an operation is doing. Most company…
Getting your organization to recognise the value of business continuity is sometimes hard. However, business continuity plan best practice isn’t only a matter of what you put into your plan, but also what you do with it afterwards. You already need to show it to your management, the board, departmental heads affected, and others in…
End of year deadlines and festivities mean that maximum tolerable outage is an increasingly hot topic in many sectors. But what will expectations be for the year to come? MTO in itself is a measurement, a tool to be used in delivering business continuity overall. Changes in MTO, whether in terms of level or application,…
You’ve probably already seen QR codes many times. A QR code typically looks like a bit of computer-generated art in a square, printed in magazines, on cereal packets, on buses, and so on. What’s the link with disaster recovery plans? Simple enough. The use of smartphones is increasing, and so are the opportunities for enabling…
Practice all you like, but if you can’t see measurable results in terms of your organisation, then you can’t guarantee that business continuity plan best practice is of benefit. True, in some cases, it seems intuitively obvious. Or perhaps a sufficient number of relevant case histories exist for the probability to be high enough that…
Business continuity is not always the easiest thing to put in place. Budget that gets allocated to BC is budget that does not get allocated to other projects or departments, and then there are also organisational turf wars to consider. If you’re faced with a manager intent on protecting his or her fiefdom, a slide…