Powering On: How to Be Ready for a Power Outage
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 [...]
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Think Defense: Learning from the Defense Dept. About Operational Risk
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 [...]
Sounds Like a Plan: The Elements of a Modern Recovery Plan
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 [...]
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The Face of Danger: The 5 Most Common Business Continuity Threats
The disasters that figure in the headlines change from day to day because the media love novelty. The events that cause business the most problems year after year tend to be the same because that [...]
In Business Continuity, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Continuity Program, Business Continuity Standards, Business Continuity Strategy
Posted Rating Your BC Skills: Little White Lies Can Create Ticking Time Bombs
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 [...]
Overdoing It: People Who Overplan Their Mock Disaster Exercises
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 Corporate Supply Chain: BCM’s Ticking Time Bomb
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 [...]
In Business Continuity Planning, Business Continuity Risk, COVID-19, Disaster Recovery, Risk Mitigation
Posted Take It Easy: It’s OK to Go Slow With Your COVID-19 Back-to-Work Plan
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 [...]
In Business Continuity, Business Continuity Planning, Business Continuity Program, Business Continuity Standards, Business Continuity Strategy, Crisis Management
Posted Vaccinate Your Business: Devise a Pandemic Plan
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 [...]
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When the Quarantine Ends: How to Be Ready to Reopen Your Company
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 [...]
