Business Continuity Planning

The year 2022 saw the tapering off of the pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, an ongoing wave of cyberattacks, continuing supply chain woes, and a renewed focus by organizations on [...]

Everyone knows business continuity planning can help organizations prepare for emergencies. Less well known is the fact that BC program elements can often be leveraged to support day-to-day [...]

For the past few years the news has been a drumbeat of threatening events—and the beat seems to be growing louder. In such times, the best thing an organization can do is get serious about risk [...]

There is a golden key that can be used by every organization to open the door to excellence for its business continuity management program. It is making use of key performance indicators (KPIs) [...]

The Department of Transportation recently announced a proposed $1 million fine of Colonial Pipeline for shortcomings in its recovery planning that increased the societal damage in the wake of the [...]

The pedal is to the metal and we are about to leave 2021 in the dust. Here’s a verbal dashboard to give you an idea of what might lie ahead for your organization and BCM in 2022.     [...]

Finding a good business continuity management consultant can be hard. Today’s post is a list of 12 steps to help you find the right BCM consulting firm for your engagement.   The key [...]

Extreme weather is making power outages more frequent, and work from home has not made the issue go away. In today’s blog, we’ll look at how you can help prepare your organization for a failure [...]

Business continuity professionals can learn a lot from the U.S. Dept. of Defense’s approach to operational risk management. In today’s post, I’ll summarize the DOD’s five-step approach to ORM and [...]

In the 25 years I’ve been in this business, one thing that has changed a lot is our ideas on what makes a good recovery plan. In today’s post, we’re going to run through the key elements of a [...]