In the days when business continuity was still mostly a competitive advantage, there was a tendency to think of maximum tolerable outage as being defined by external customer expectations. Whether for manufacturing, finance or other industry sectors, MTO was measured in terms of effect on the customer base, likely customer reactions and the impact on…
Yes, you can take that title literally. While the debate goes on about whether a disaster recovery plan should be centred on back-up to hard disk or tape, there’s a new kid on the storage block (or around the corner for the moment) – DNA. In a paper entitled “Next-Generation Digital Information Storage in DNA”,…
Books on business continuity plan best practice don’t feature in the overall business management book bestseller list – or not yet anyway. It’s not that there’s any shortage of books on the subject. There are many respected authors who have something to contribute to BCP at various levels. Popular BCP titles include for example “The…
Now that people in many organisations expect to be able to use their own mobile computing devices at work, it may be time to update business continuity plan best practices. At the moment, the BYOD (Bring Your own Device) challenge seems to have caught enterprises on the hop. Managing the use of tablets and smartphones…
Business continuity plan best practice does not happen overnight, whatever the size of your company. Figuring out how to optimise the chances for a business to continue successful operations, whatever the circumstances is a process that can take considerable time. Finding a way to show that progress is being made above all in the early…
Seriously, what do you know about business continuity? Or rather, what does your organisation as a whole know about it? Among the different business continuity test scenarios possible, testing how aware people are and how much their reflexes and behaviour are in tune with BCP occupies an important place. After all, business continuity applies to…