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…
If you’re involved in disaster recovery planning at an international level, you may well find disparities in the different country branches of your organisation. Differences can arise in a number of ways. They can range from simple lack of knowledge of what disaster recovery is or should be, through time lags where different countries are…
At the risk of labouring a point, here’s some further information on a particular business continuity good practice guideline – that of understanding where to look for the most likely threat. A survey from the Neverfail Group, a systems software vendor, earlier this year indicates that that the real danger to business continuity is from…
Of all the possible interruptions to business continuity for small businesses that are the least often considered, but the most likely to stop a company’s operations, lack of succession planning is high on the list. The difficulty associated with finding someone to take over when the current owner or manager retires is compounded by the…
Downtime costs are not something you can calculate exactly. However, along the lines of “what gets measured, gets managed”, it’s useful to have some idea of where you’re headed even if it’s just an approximation. What’s often missing in any formula for this are either one-off charges that you didn’t think of at the time…
As the saying goes, half a loaf is better than no bread, and the same could be said of business continuity. Although you’d like to have an organisation that can weather any storm and survive any setback, if it’s a choice between sub-optimal performance or catastrophic failure, then naturally the first one wins. However, catastrophic…