The BIG business continuity plan from BCI

The latest “business continuity plan” on a worldwide scale from the BCI (Business Continuity Institute) has recently been defined in the organisation’s new Strategy Document. It maps out actions for the BCI for 2012 through 2015, centred on spreading BCM around the globe and growing the institute. The goals are three-fold: a consistency of the […]

Business Continuity Test Scenarios – the Game!

There’s nothing like making something fun to get people involved and interested, and the same applies to business continuity test scenarios. What makes them fun depends. For some, it’s the intellectual challenge of figuring out the right way to test scenarios to cover the right proportion of all the possible outcomes. For others, it’s a […]

Business Continuity Management, Legislation, Regulations & Standards

There are many guidelines, good practices, regulations and auditable standards relating to Business Continuity Management available internationally and specific to Australia. The BCI has release a document that aims to be the  most comprehensive list available outlining all of the different business continuity management standards etc available. It is divided up by country and classifies […]

Making Sense of Business Continuity Frameworks, Standards & Guidelines

There are about 50 or more Standards, Codes of Practice and Practice Guidelines for business continuity, risk management and IT disaster recovery around the world. Some are internationally applicable and some are country-specific.   Below is some information about the various frameworks and standards that may relate to Australian organisations. This is not the complete list […]