Business Continuity Planning

Today I want to talk about one of my pet peeves: business continuity staff who exaggerate their abilities on their personal skillset inventories. These little white lies about your BC skills [...]

You might be surprised to hear there is such a thing as overplanning a mock disaster exercise. The motivations for this common problem are understandable, but the costs are high, as I’ll discuss [...]

The coronavirus pandemic has made one thing abundantly clear: the corporate supply chain is business continuity management’s ticking time bomb. In today’s post, we’ll look at the secret [...]

Many companies have been running themselves ragged in trying to come up with and quickly implement a comprehensive plan for adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, given the current [...]

The news is full of efforts to develop a vaccine effective against COVID-19. Your company also needs to be vaccinated against the impacts of communicable disease and the best way to do this is [...]

Sooner or later, the danger of coronavirus will recede, the quarantine will be relaxed, and companies will be able to move toward resuming normal operations. In today’s blog, we’ll share some [...]

Most people think it’s easy for employees to work from home, but the reality is otherwise. In today’s post we’ll look at seven questions every organization should ask itself before sending its [...]

Whether you’re an independent consultant or work on staff, life as a BCM professional can sometimes make you feel like Rodney Dangerfield: you get no respect from senior management. In today’s [...]

Few organizations think about risk in a rational manner, which commonly leads to unnecessary expenditures and dangerous gaps in their business continuity planning. In today’s post, we’re going to [...]

Good documentation is one of the pillars of a strong business continuity program, but it’s one that often gets left out. In today’s post, we’ll look at how to create BC documentation, which parts [...]