By now, a pattern should be unmistakable. Business Continuity doesn’t fail because organizations lack standards. It doesn’t fail because plans aren’t written. And it certainly doesn’t fail because people don’t care. It fails when behavior [...]
There is an uncomfortable question sitting beneath this entire series. If we cannot clearly articulate the value of our programs — whatever label we put on them: Crisis and Emergency Management, Business Continuity, Resilience, [...]
We are entering a new phase of Business Continuity. One where a BC plan that would comfortably pass an audit — RTOs assigned, recovery steps defined, resources mapped, dependencies described — can be generated [...]
One thing has become clear through the conversations on this series: there is no shortage of appetite for change in our profession. People can see what isn’t working. They have ideas for how business [...]
One of the most persistent myths in Business Continuity is that top management buy-in is the hard part. It isn’t. In most organizations, senior leaders will readily agree that Business Continuity — resilience, emergency [...]