The business continuity industry has heard a lot about Plan, Do, Check Act (PDCA) recently. Nearly every emerging standard is following this approach, from BS 25999 and NFPA 1600 (2010 edition) to the new [...]
Resilience Management Definition Resilience management is the process of integrating all of an organization’s protective activities under one, clear, management structure. The methodology is subdivided into two areas: readiness and response. [...]
After approval by the ISO member bodies, the ISO Technical Management Board Working Group on risk management released ISO 31000:2009, Risk Management – Principles and Guidelines in November of 2009. The authors designed [...]
One of the most visible and essential elements of a business continuity program is exercising. Performing exercises enables the organization to validate and improve business continuity capabilities and plan documentation. [...]
Many organizations struggle to define the best method to meet business expectations regarding information technology (IT) recovery. ISO 27031 provides guidance to business continuity and IT disaster recovery professionals on how to [...]
American novelist Thomas Berger once mused that, “the art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.” The quest for answers, searching beyond the surface and challenging currently accepted assumptions, [...]
In business continuity and IT disaster recovery, the terms RTO and RPO are both often used in conversations about recovery requirements. While the terms are closely related, they have distinct meanings [...]
BC Management recently released its 2021 Business Continuity Management Event Impact Report in partnership with Witt O’Brien’s. The latest report takes an in-depth look at some of the top trends we’re seeing across the [...]
May 17 kicks off an important week—it’s Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW), a week led by the BCI and sponsored by Riskonnect (formerly Castellan), where we celebrate and encourage the spread of business continuity [...]
Building business resilience has risen to the top of the priority list to navigate today’s nearly constant flow of disruption. Over the past few years, businesses have had to keep up with a crush [...]
In a recent blog post, I talked about how operational resiliency is changing the way we approach business continuity, highlighting, in the simplest terms, how operational resiliency and business continuity work hand-in-hand to make [...]
Business continuity is much more than making plans to deal with disasters and disruptions. It’s now an integral part of a broader resilience effort—not just during a crisis, but continuously, through all the ups [...]
