Business Continuity and Crisis Management Consultants
Are you an executive leader wondering how you can more effectively champion your business continuity and crisis management program across your organization? While many companies recognize that active executive sponsorship is a top driver of project or program success, they often do little to equip executive sponsors on how to do it well. We frequently …
How to Champion Your Business Continuity Program as an Executive SponsorRead More
If you think that having good governance for your business continuity and crisis management program is just an exercise in bureaucratic box-checking, you’re missing the point. Like most people who come to us with a problem, you might have issues: Getting your executives to care about your business continuity and crisis management program Getting other …
Why good Business Continuity Governance is critical to ResilienceRead More
Business continuity and crisis management experts rarely talk about the gap between business continuity and IT disaster recovery planning. But they should. The distance between the IT disaster recovery program you have and what you need could be bigger than you think. Like one of our clients whose IT disaster recovery plans for several critical …
Closing the Gap Between Business Continuity & IT Disaster RecoveryRead More
Does your organization take business continuity and crisis management seriously? Are you getting the resources you need to run these programs well? If not, my best advice to you starts with a question: “What are you doing to build a culture of resilience within your organization?” Fostering a culture of resilience is arguably one of …
In most organizations, the only times a business leader and their team learn about business continuity & crisis management is when the time comes to update their business impact analysis and associated plans – or when an incident or crisis occurs. It’s not a great way to drive business continuity awareness. This is a huge …
How to create an effective business continuity awareness campaign in your organizationRead More
According to research, about 25% of businesses fail to recover after disasters. If they lack a recovery plan, it becomes hard to cope with the repercussions. That’s why your business needs an ideal business continuity plan (BCP). In this article, we discuss how to test your BCP plan using several different business continuity exercise scenarios. …
7 Business Continuity Exercise Scenarios That You Need to Prepare ForRead More
Selling your business continuity program to your internal stakeholders is a lot like telling your kid to eat her veggies while yours are neatly swept onto the rim of your plate or otherwise smothered in ranch and cheese. You know they’re good for you, but how do you convince your kid that all those vitamins, …
What’s the Value of Business Continuity: Beyond ROIRead More
You are ready to begin writing an effective business continuity plan (BCP) for your organization and its critical functions. You have followed our advice on how to communicate your business continuity program to senior executives. You know that business continuity planning is a process that begins with a thorough business impact analysis (BIA). You’ll also …
Tips for creating an effective business continuity planRead More
