Remember the TV series with Lee Majors playing the role of astronaut Steve Austin? It’s OK, you can admit it without overly dating yourself – there have been reruns since the series was originally launched in 1973! In essence, Austin is ‘rebuilt’ after an accident using bionic body parts to make him stronger and better…
Resilience as a subject is getting wider coverage nowadays. For example, Resilient Australia is an example of an organisation promoting the concept and holding competitions to award prizes to entities judged to have done outstanding work in the area of resilience. Resilient Organisations (ResOrgs) is a public research programme based in New Zealand as a…
Events like the Olympic Games are also opportunities to see BC planning in action, hopefully along the lines of business continuity plan best practice.
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…
While business continuity goes further than IT and data protection, it’s a sign of the times when computer hardware manufacturers start building BC directly into their systems. Twenty years ago, BC in the guise of “100% uptime” fault tolerant systems was the select domain of companies like Tandem and Stratus. Although costing less than some…
The pairing of business continuity and alternate sites has around for some time. Whether hot, warm, cold, mirrored or even mobile, the idea is to provide facilities for an organisation to continue to function, at least at a basic level, if disaster strikes normal operations. The question that arises is how close or how far…