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by Roberta J. Witty | November 2, 2012 | Comments Off
I was wondering how insurance companies keep track of all their covered assets and then assess the damage due to catastrophic events such as Superstorm Sandy. Clearly such storms generate tremendous stress on insurance industry operations due to property loss and associated claims submissions. They are overloaded with work in determining coverage and payment associated [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Availability Risk, BCM, BCP, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business interruption insurance, Business Resiliency, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, crisis communications, Crisis Management, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Management, Emergency Preparedness, Hurricane Sandy, Incident Management, Operational Risk Management, P&C insurance, property damage, property insurance, records management, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Sandy
by Roberta J. Witty | November 2, 2011 | 1 Comment
Most of us think about computer-based zombies but this survey provides some needed humorous diversion from all of the weather-related power outages in the Northeast U.S. Take the Zombie Risk Management Assessment to see why. It amazing provides some core best practices from BCM. Belated Happy Halloween!!!
Category: Uncategorized Tags: BCM, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, Contingency Planning, Crisis Management, Emergency Preparedness, Incident Management, Recovery Planning, Succession Planning, Workforce Continuity, Zombie Attack
by Roberta J. Witty | September 11, 2011 | Comments Off
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by Roberta J. Witty | September 6, 2011 | 2 Comments
Lots of citizens in Connecticut are complaining about how long it took (or is taking) to restore power to their residences after the impact of Hurricane Irene. I heard some interesting information today on my local NPR radio station: The Colin McEnroe Show spent the entire time on disaster preparedness. One of the guests – [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | August 30, 2011 | 2 Comments
As most of us are now on the other side of Hurricane Irene, we want to ask everyone what recovery controls worked, which didn’t and which were new for your organization or your town. For example, the local fire departments around my area (Northwest CT) are offering charging stations for citizens to use for devices [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, banking, BCM, BCP, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, records management, Recovery Planning, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Roberta Witty, Supply Chain Risk Management, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | May 18, 2011 | Comments Off
The rolling blackouts designed to conserve electricity following the earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan continue to present serious challenges for enterprises. Gartner’s best practices can help IT organizations protect their infrastructures and support their workforces. Key Findings The earthquake and tsunami that struck the Tohoku district in March, and the power plant failures and [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, BCM, BCP, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Crisis Management, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Preparedness, Governance, IT Disaster Recovery, Operational Risk Management, records management, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Supply Chain Risk Management, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | May 15, 2011 | Comments Off
For many organizations, engaging external assistance can often be the step needed to develop, mature and modernize a business continuity management program. Gartner’s recent survey of BCM consulting providers and services delivers the information clients need to make informed engagement decisions. The findings in this research are based on a joint Gartner and Business Continuity [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, BCM, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Crisis Management, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Supply Chain Risk Management, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | March 31, 2011 | 1 Comment
Gartner Research has taken many steps over the last few weeks to supply our customers around the globe with strategic and tactical advice regarding the impact of the Japan earthquake/tsunami disaster. First, we stood up for our Japanese speaking customers a special Business Continuity Management site to provide news and easy access to many business [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | December 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced on their web site “The Blog @ Homeland Security” that they have partnered with Wal-Mart to further promote DHS’ campaign of “If You See Something, Say Something”. Tagged “Hometown Security”, the video of Janet Napolitano, Security of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security advises Wal-Mart [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Availability Risk, Business Continuity Planning, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Resiliency, Roberta Witty, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | November 30, 2010 | 1 Comment
In Q3/2010, Gartner published 18 maturity self-assessment tools under the trade name of ITScore. One of the tools is for BCM: ITScore for Business Continuity Management. This ITScore-based Maturity Assessment represents an evaluation of an enterprise BCM program based on key indicators of maturity, which encompass management processes, personnel and organization, technologies and tools, and [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Availability Risk, BCM, BCP, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Governance, H1N1, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Roberta Witty, Workforce Continuity
