Business continuity originated in electronic data processing or EDP. Some observers joked that the personality of an EDP manager corresponded to those three letters. E stood for Engineer. The EDP manager, more commonly referred to as an IT manager nowadays, was technically astute and obsessed over the hardware and software details of the company’s computer…
If you haven’t yet met Google Glass, the new computing and communications tool from Google, you might be surprised at what it can do. Looking like a designer spectacles frame but without the lenses, Google Glass manages to tuck into a very small space: a miniature screen (just above your right eye), camera, microphone, ear…
Business continuity is often about reinforcing existing infrastructure or eliminating sources of business disruption. Bringing in techniques to accelerate or multiply results thanks to good business continuity may not be so frequent, but here’s one that may well do that. It’s version control, which is used when several knowledge workers need to simultaneously work on…
Set it and forget it? Not if it’s a cloud computing solution on which your enterprise is relying to accomplish its daily operations. Due diligence in cloud vendor selection and frequent regular testing are both key components of the overall process. Taking a leaf out the banks’ books can be instructive in this context. While…
Businesses can’t function if they don’t have customers. When customers find other solutions and move away, it’s therefore a threat to business continuity. Conventional banks may be at risk if a new development in online-only banking takes off. Startup ‘Simple’ (that’s the company’s name) for instance is giving clients an innovative alternative. Its solution is…
Despite the publicity given to Big Data and (to a lesser extent) the Internet of Things, their practical advantage has yet to be clarified. It’s difficult to think of them in terms of business continuity when they don’t influence the fortunes of an enterprise; unless you count the negative impact of money spent investigating them.…