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…
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…