The damage from Hurricane Sandy was front page news for some time, even if it will probably finish by fading from popular memory, as new tropical storms come and go. Yet because it hit the Northeast of the United States with its financial nerve centres, there was a particular impact on the operations of the…
Getting your organization to recognise the value of business continuity is sometimes hard. However, business continuity plan best practice isn’t only a matter of what you put into your plan, but also what you do with it afterwards. You already need to show it to your management, the board, departmental heads affected, and others in…
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…
Keeping a business going is what business continuity is all about, but at what price? Ethics have more than one role to play as part of business continuity plan best practice. Not only are they important in order to prevent continuity from being jeopardised, but they are also a crucial part of any response to…
Books on business continuity plan best practice don’t feature in the overall business management book bestseller list – or not yet anyway. It’s not that there’s any shortage of books on the subject. There are many respected authors who have something to contribute to BCP at various levels. Popular BCP titles include for example “The…
Now that people in many organisations expect to be able to use their own mobile computing devices at work, it may be time to update business continuity plan best practices. At the moment, the BYOD (Bring Your own Device) challenge seems to have caught enterprises on the hop. Managing the use of tablets and smartphones…