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What-If? Analysis: BCM Planning’s Hidden Tool
An earlier blog article by my colleague highlighted the importance of understanding the Causality Chain in effective Incident Management. Underlying the Causality Chain is the…
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Big Tent, or Separate Umbrellas?
Perhaps I’m just a curmudgeon (a crusty, ill-tempered old man), but it irks me when someone uses the term “Business Continuity” exclusively to refer to…
The 5 Real Reasons your Employees Don’t Care about Business Continuity
An excellent, recent article in Information Week online, entitled “5 Reasons Your Employees Don’t Care About Business Continuity” dealt with what I might categorize as…
Incident Management: The Importance of Causality Chain
“Business Continuity Planning: Is it an Art or a Science?” That discussion rages on, with as much intensity as the chicken-or-the-egg controversy. Â But there is…
Where Should Business Continuity Belong in an Organization?
The title of this article is a question that comes up often in Business Continuity Management industry LinkedIn Group Discussions. Many planners and practitioners struggle…
Incident Management & Crisis Management – Very Different, Often Confused
Those of us who spend our business lives immersed in the Business Continuity industry swim through a sea of acronyms. Meanwhile, we are constantly seeking…
Incident Management 103 – Communications
During an incident there is constant need or desire for information from many stakeholders: Senior Management wants to know what is impacted, what the response…
Data Migration: How-to Guide
You’ve spent years creating Plans and accumulating data in your legacy DRP software. Â Now you’re no longer sure that old software is capable of providing…
Requirements Over Time: The Venus Flytrap of Business Continuity
“Preppers” (those anticipating the end of the world who stockpile guns, food, camouflage gear, bottled water and the like in expectation of Armageddon), have it…