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…
In the best of all worlds, everyone in an organisation is convinced of the merits of business continuity planning, and works to make BC happen as it should. Idealism may be inspiring, but many BC managers feel they have more in common with lone voices in the wilderness, or Cassandra of mythical Greek fame, who…
Cloud computing and risk mitigation, OK – but when pundits start linking business continuity plans and “prospect theory”, discussions can run deep indeed. What do the two have in common? To answer a question like that, you first have to know what prospect theory is about. In a simple form, it describes how people make…