The “Six Degrees” of Business Continuity
The “six degrees” concept is that you can reach any person in the world using a maximum of six personal relationships in a chain stretching from you to the person you want to reach.
How Far Back Do You Go in Your Business Continuity?
It’s a fact of business life that customers, markets, and industry commentators only see your brand, and not the suppliers who provide the materials, components, or products behind it.
Where Do You Put the Cursor for Supply Chain Resilience?
Supply Chain Resilience have so many moving parts that rapidly becomes a priority issue.
Where is the Truth in Business Continuity Today?
Let’s set some expectations. This blog post won’t give any definitive answer about the question above! On the other hand, this post is prompted by a comparison of recent news items, on the face of it interconnected and yet apparently at odds. Within the space of less than a month one survey found that companies…
To Share or Not to Share Business Continuity in a Shared Supply Chain
One of the challenges to business continuity planning in 2013 will be the trend to share supply chain facilities between two or more companies. The logic is that to keep logistics and distribution running smoothly but at acceptable cost, the overhead of facilities such as distribution centres or delivery can be shared. It is even…
Maximum Tolerable Outage(s) for the Supply Chain in 2013
End of year deadlines and festivities mean that maximum tolerable outage is an increasingly hot topic in many sectors. But what will expectations be for the year to come? MTO in itself is a measurement, a tool to be used in delivering business continuity overall. Changes in MTO, whether in terms of level or application,…
When the Business Case for Business Continuity affects Supply Chain Operations
A business case for business continuity is not just about additional benefits that BC might bring to an organisation. In some cases, the need to ensure that an enterprise can “take a lickin’ and still keep on tickin’ “ means other advances in operational theory and practice need to be given up. A case in…
Anyone for Partial Business Continuity?
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…
Minimising the impact of recession on how well you recover
About the only certainty left is in the way they increase risks to an organisation in terms of business continuity. Risks that you have to manage in a recession-free environment, that range from IT failures to natural disasters, will still be present if recession arrives. It’s the new risks that you’ll also need to be…
Benchmarking and business continuity
Benchmarking business continuity means different things to different people, judging by the variety of information available. In one case, the standard by which comparisons are to be made is based on how many organisations (manufacturers and service providers) think their BC plan covers their supply chain risks. Opinions are subjective and no guarantee of results.…
Business continuity in the supply chain
With outsourcing now firmly on the agenda of so many organisations, business continuity in the supply chain is an additional challenge that has to be met. It’s not the same challenge as BC within the organisation, because visibility and transparency of a third-party’s BC management may not be readily available. The common pitfall is for…
Business Continuity After Customer Collapse
Disaster recovery and business continuity are often thought of in terms of floods, fires, explosions and similar physical events. What may be less obvious to BC planners but just as critical to the survival of an organisation are the non-physical events, such as the loss of a major customer or a major change in a…