Business Continuity

The coronavirus situation has led to an explosion in the number of crisis management conference calls going on, as well as revealing how poorly these are conducted at many organizations. In [...]

Most people think it’s easy for employees to work from home, but the reality is otherwise. In today’s post we’ll look at seven questions every organization should ask itself before sending its [...]

You might not believe it, but sometimes companies are more interested in looking good than in being good. This is especially true with regard to their ability to recover from business [...]

Whether you’re an independent consultant or work on staff, life as a BCM professional can sometimes make you feel like Rodney Dangerfield: you get no respect from senior management. In today’s [...]

Every now and then someone asks me what GRC is and what if anything it has to do with business continuity and IT/disaster recovery. Keep reading for the answers to these and other questions about [...]

With the clock running out on 2019, there’s no better time than now to take a look back at our most popular posts of the year. In this last post before the year ends, I want to turn the spotlight [...]

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 [...]