While the idea that business continuity management needs to become part of corporate culture is gradually gaining ground, the practical aspects of making it happen may be less obvious. You want everybody in your organisation to be BC-aware, because business discontinuity can happen at any time and affect anyone. But how do you communicate that…
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…
New Zealand small and medium-sized firms are highly unprepared for a future crisis similar to the Christchurch earthquakes, a study has found. Massey University’s annual BusinesSMEasure canvassed 1000 companies across the country. It found only a small proportion of the firms surveyed had a formal continuity plan in place and fewer than 10 per cent…
From time to time, it’s instructive to look around and see what organisations are doing with business continuity. With business continuity management now an increasingly important part of good business practice, business schools are led to include this in their courses, and hopefully practise what they preach. A visit to the website of the London…
New standards for business continuity management take a while to define, vote and promulgate, so a schedule that has changed slightly for ISO 22301 in the course of its development isn’t necessarily a problem. What was originally planned as a Q1 release of the standard now appears to be scheduled for May, although by this…
Henry Ford would have appreciated the Wiley publishing company’s approach to business continuity management. In keeping with the rest of its “For Dummies” books, Wiley will (September 2012) be bringing out the “Business Continuity for Dummies” edition, mass-produced BCM in something of a one-size-fits-all approach. Not that there’s anything wrong with that – BCM deserves…