Author: Jim Mitchell

This is the 2nd in a series of articles focusing on Business Continuity Planning – from basics to testing.  While not intended to define any standard for BCP’s, these articles should provide assistance for new Planners, and provoke the thought processes of experienced Planners.  The series began with a 7 Things Every Plan Should Contain. […]

Whether we’re willing to admit it or not, most of us in Business Continuity Management understand that our industry needs fixing.  You may not believe it is fundamentally broken.  Perhaps ‘broken’ is too extreme.  Would ‘in need of repair’ make you feel better?  Either way, something needs to change. Don’t believe it?  Then why is […]

This is the first of a blog series reviewing form & content of typical Business Continuity Plans – from basics to testing.  While not intended to define any standard for BCP’s, these articles should provide assistance for new Planners, and provoke the thought processes of experienced Planners.  We begin by examining the basic content of […]

Every organization faces risks – and some of those risks may result in disruptions or other ‘incidents’.  For all Business Continuity programs, an effective response to an incident requires many things.  Our recent blog series “Incident Horizon” breaks those requirements into five phases: Planning, Preparedness, Initial Response, Planned Response and Extended Response.  Understanding the purpose […]

Every organization faces risks – and some of those risks may result in disruptions or other ‘incidents’.  An effective response to an incident requires many things.  We’ve combined them into a 5-part “Incident Horizon”: Planning, Preparedness, Initial Response, Planned Response and Extended Response.  In this blog we look at the Extended Response phase of the […]

Every organization faces risks – and some of those risks may result in disruptions or other ‘incidents’.  An effective response to an incident requires many things.  We’ve combined them into a 5-part “Incident Horizon”: Planning, Preparedness, Initial Response, Planned Response and Extended Response.  In this blog we look at the composition of one of those […]