Business Continuity Management

Unfortunately, external audits of business continuity management (BCM) programs have a bad habit of going off the rails. In today’s post, I’ll lay out the kinds of things that commonly go wrong [...]

The fascinating new discipline known as Chaos Engineering (CE) has the potential to bring big changes to business continuity. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post called, What Is Chaos [...]

Are you familiar with the term “chaos engineering?” If this is the first time, you’ve heard it, it probably won’t be the last time. Chaos engineering (CE) is a new approach to resiliency testing [...]

Some people who hire business continuity consultants think of them as being like waiters: they expect the consultant to serve them at their leisure then quietly go away, allowing them to enjoy an [...]

Some things are naturally tough to measure, but if you can figure out a way to do it that is meaningful and consistent, it can give you a real a leg up in improving your performance in that area. [...]

Few things embody the task of balancing risk and reward like a manned space rocket sitting on the launchpad as the moment of liftoff approaches. Such a rocket brings together in one time and [...]

I had an interesting week last week: Along with two other MHA consultants, I spent two and a half days performing a current state assessment of the business continuity situation at a large [...]

There must be something special about the number nine. When we talk about looking our best, we speak of dressing to the nines. When we’re happy, we talk about being on cloud nine. And when we [...]

The word “habit” has a bad reputation, but good habits can be your best friend, whether in your professional life or elsewhere. What’s more, good habits can be cultivated. If you don’t have them [...]

[This is the second post in our occasional series “You’re Doing It Wrong.” The first post was on BCM Metrics.] I realize that the title of this post is probably incorrect. It’s probably not right [...]