Business Continuity – Page 6

Where Should Business Continuity Management Live?

Where in your company orgchart should you put BCM? The quick answer is ‘in the business continuity department’. However, unlike marketing, sales, production and so on, business continuity doesn’t always benefit from being a department in its own right. You could tackle the question by putting business continuity management in the department where it first started. You could put it in an area that reflects the way that BCM has grown from a technology-centric consideration to an enterprise-wide concern. You could even make it a direct responsibility of your organisation’s CEO or at least a C-level function like the CFO, CIO and so on. But which of these possibilities makes the most sense? Read more

2014-11-10T15:32:55+11:00By Dri-ANZ|Business Continuity|

How the Consumer IT Market is Driving Business Continuity Management

For many aspects of IT, the business market takes its cue from developments in the consumer sector. Even if other items like servers, databases and virtualisation are still enterprise-centric, developments in tablet PCs and smartphones are driven first of all by what private users want. These mobile computing devices are accounting for an increasingly large part of IT everywhere. That means that if you want to see what will happen in the business market tomorrow, look at the consumer market today. Tablets and smartphones also open up new possibilities for effective business continuity management. But other consumer IT innovations are contributing to changes in BCM too. Read more

2014-11-04T09:09:06+11:00By Dri-ANZ|Business Continuity|

Avoiding Confusion between Technology and Business Continuity

With technology driving so much business activity now, it’s easy to start thinking of it as the be-all and end-all of business continuity. After all, cloud and virtualisation solutions instantly move computer loads between servers and sites. Policy-defined software programs securely control access to information. Virtual desktop applications exactly reproduce the same user computing environment on any device in any location for automatic business continuity, whether or not your physical office is still standing. However, the danger is in confusing a resource with an objective. Read more

2014-10-17T15:18:07+11:00By Dri-ANZ|Business Continuity|

Your Organisation has Business Continuity and Resilience – But What About You?

Sometimes we concentrate so hard on overall resilience and business continuity that we neglect another vital aspect – the resilience of individuals in the organisation. While it’s true that there is often a positive spill-over from enterprise to employee, people need attention just as much as processes. Resilient people are better able to plan, execute and manage crises if they have to. Take a look at the list of characteristics below. If you think about how these points could be applied at a personal as well as at an organisational level, you’ll already be a big step ahead. Read more

2014-10-13T10:35:46+11:00By Dri-ANZ|Business Continuity|

Making Business Continuity Management the Bearer of Good News

Business continuity management depends on good risk management. That’s a term that resonates with senior management because enterprises and organisations are constantly exposed to risk. So presenting BCM as a way to reduce or even eliminate the negative consequences is often a way to attract the attention of departmental heads and C-level directors. However, as marketers and sales people will tell you, once you have senior management’s attention, you need to build up the interest and move them to action. You could continue pounding home the message about potential damage, but is this most effective way of getting management to act by visibly supporting and implementing BCM? Read more

2014-10-10T11:04:19+11:00By Dri-ANZ|Business Continuity|