Business Continuity

An entire book could easily be written on business continuity testing —in fact, we’re developing an ebook on this topic right now. We plan to publish it next year, but in the meantime, I wanted [...]

Business continuity programs sink or swim depending on whether they have the support of senior management. In today’s post, we’ll share eight tips to help you bring your bosses on board in [...]

Many companies put off starting a business continuity program because they think doing so is too hard. In today’s post, we’ll boil down the process of launching a BC program to three clear, [...]

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 [...]

When clients issue RFPs for business continuity services that are vague and contradictory, the result is a disappointment for the client and bewilderment for prospective BC service providers. In [...]

A hidden weakness in many organizations is that business continuity data is kept in different places, which causes confusion and can hinder access during an emergency. In today’s post, we’ll take [...]

Sometimes problems result when the IT department does its own recovery planning then BC comes along and conducts an analysis that shows IT’s plans to be inadequate. In today’s post, we’ll look at [...]

The reports of the death of the field of business continuity have been greatly overstated. But those of us who work in it do have to raise our performance in a few critical areas. For some time, [...]

A quality business continuity management (BCM) program is made up of six separate plans covering everything from emergency response to IT disaster recovery. In today’s post, we’ll explain what [...]