Business Continuity

Tiered testing is a way of matching the rigor of the testing applied to a given business process with its importance to the organization. It ensures that you get the most bang for your testing [...]

Supply chain insecurity has emerged as one of the leading threats to business, but most organizations continue to lag when it comes to protecting their access to critical goods and services. In [...]

One mistake we see frequently is when organizations equate a high volume of work done in their business continuity programs with recoverability. Smart BC professionals know that becoming [...]

Here is an irony for you: at many organizations, the business continuity office is often the last to know when something happens that threatens to disrupt the business. The cause of this problem [...]

There’s a good reason business loves the concept of return on investment (ROI); it expresses the worth of an activity in terms everyone understands: dollars. However, in evaluating intangible [...]

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 Internet generation has arrived in the workplace, bringing new ways of thinking, learning, and getting things done. The business continuity profession will need to adapt if it is to partner [...]

Our current period of unrelenting crises requires an equally strong response from business. It’s time we moved from a business continuity mindset to a resiliency mindset.  When I first began [...]

Too many business continuity management programs are reactive rather than proactive. Good BCM programs exist in a permanent posture of executing on a roadmap, their custom-crafted plan for the [...]

The job boards are lighting up with ads for business continuity positions; however, thriving in this role is probably harder than you think. If you have eight key skills, you can succeed as a BCM [...]