The London Olympics 2012 and Business Continuity plan best practice
Events like the Olympic Games are also opportunities to see BC planning in action, hopefully along the lines of business continuity plan best practice.
Auditors as allies for the business case for business continuity
To persuade senior management to accept the business case for business continuity, you sometimes need all the friends you can get. One friend in particular that may be worth cultivating is your internal company auditor. Auditors by virtue of their job know about the different business operations of an enterprise and have a double advantage.…
Business Continuity Consultant of the Year?
If you follow the CIR magazine’s annual Business Continuity Awards and the one for Business Continuity Consultant of the Year in particular, the following may be familiar to you. The factors considered by the judges include “the use of creative ideas to resolve problems, innovation in the actual techniques used, the instigation of a business…
Hiring a business continuity consultant – scoping is key
It’s not unusual to feel apprehensive about hiring a business continuity consultant, or indeed any kind of consultant. There are a number of possible reasons. Fear of the unknown is one. How do they work? How do they charge? What return on my investment will I get? Fear of change is another. Consultants bring change…
What’s in a name? (as in Business Continuity)
Is the term “business continuity” appropriate? It applies to a wider sector than the “business” part of the name suggests. As well as profit-driven, private sector enterprises, many public sector organisations also have BCM in place. Still, the public sector can be just as “business-like” in pursuing its goals as the private one. On the…
What About Debris In Disaster Recovery?
In any disaster that involves some kind of destruction (and are there any disasters that don’t?), there’s going to be some kind of debris. Complete disaster recovery means dealing effectively with that debris. The FEMA (American Federal Emergency Management Agency) 325 Debris Management Guide published in 2007 indicates the potential size of the problem: over…