Overview: Program Development & Methodology
Your plans are the backbone of your business continuity program. They’re the “who does what” instruction manuals for any incident, but they’re much more than paper. Today’s business continuity planning tools run the gamut from simple fill-in-the-blanks templates to robust modular systems that integrate with notification and crisis management systems. And even if you don’t use a tool, your program must include performance metrics and actionable to-dos.
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BIA Best Practices: How To Compensate For Exaggerated Business Unit Valuations
1/23/2012 Continuity Insights - When the total of all financial impacts from an outage exceeds the annual revenue of the organization, you know it’s time to modify your approach. Five members of Continuity Insights’ editorial advisory board discuss the techniques they use to compensate for business unit managers that overemphasize their own or their unit’s value during the business impact analysis (BIA) process. Among the recommendations are peer reviews, senior leader engagement and validation, steering committee reconciliation and, believe it or not, sarcasm.
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Going 'All In' With Your Supply Chain
1/20/2012 Continuity Insights - Best practice approaches to strategic supplier relationships offer tremendous potential. One of the most effective such practices involves taking a broader view of the supplier’s impacts on the customer organization. As part of various consulting projects, we’ve systematically mapped the way a supplier’s product connects to the customer’s operations and processes, trying to identify and quantify the “adjacency costs” that are connected to the supplier’s product.
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How To Identify & Update Dinosaur Processes & Technologies In Your Organization
1/16/2012 Continuity Insights - Disaster recovery and business continuity plans are based on evolving technologies and, like the dinosaurs, some aspects of these plans will become extinct. We can dissect a comprehensive BC/DR program into separate categories -- process, technology and communications -- to discover those areas that have become dinosaurs and thus, to a large degree, extinct ways of thinking.
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Inspiring Change
1/9/2012 Continuity Insights - Change comes with resistance. If we are the top dog of our organization or team, we can force change by dictating it. If that isn’t your option or your style, then inspire change by addressing the emotional motivations to change. Logic alone just isn’t reason enough.
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CI Podcast 002: The Business Continuity Job Market
12/28/2011 Continuity Insights - Cheyene Haase, President of BC Management, discusses the state of the job market for business continuity professionals and the factors that are driving higher salaries and promotions, such as certification and technical skills.
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