Business Continuity Planning

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]