by Roberta J. Witty | October 28, 2010 | 5 Comments
Getting management attention and investment commitment for BCM can be hard. Linking key performance indicators to key risk indicators for response, recovery and resilience is an effective approach for communicating to business management the value of business continuity and resilience management, so that business management takes ownership of these programs and commits to the needed [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | September 1, 2010 | 2 Comments
Every good blog post deserves a pingback so here’s one for you from the Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency - “30 Days, 30 Ways Preparedness Challenge”. As part of U.S. National Preparedness Month, Clark County, WA – just over the waterway from Portland, OR is offering up a fun, fact-filled challenge around personal and community [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | August 23, 2010 | Comments Off
When we published our marketscope analysis report “Marketscope for Business Continuity Management Planning Software”, adoption had been rather stagnant over the prior five years – settling in at approximately 31%. We expect there to be an increase in adoption in the next five years, but it sure seems to be slow. Complicating adoption is that [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | August 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
With all the political mumbo-jumbo taking place in the U.S., I’ve started to loose faith in mankind. But this article ‘NEED Help!’: Biker’s Twitter followers call for ambulance makes me certain that there is still some glimmer of compassion left towards our fellow man. Aside from the meta-physical implications, the article is of particular interest [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | June 10, 2010 | Comments Off
On June 3, 2010, Senator Joe Lieberman and Representative Bennie Thompson sent a letter to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano urging DHS to accelerate the launch of the PS-Prep program. They asked DHS to provide within 15 days “a timeline for adopting standards for the program.” Additionally, they asked DHS to provide a plan “to conduct a [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | June 10, 2010 | Comments Off
If you ever wanted to learn about: dealing with behavioral and emotional response to a crisis, including the concept of behavioral mapping during various phases of a crisis; what an organization can do before and during a crisis to alleviate individual and organizational impacts; and the value of Security being visible and responsive during a [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | April 28, 2010 | Comments Off
The economic recession has had a hard impact on the BCM profession. There are more skilled professionals looking for work than ever. BCM professionals still think of themselves as content experts who hope for “the big one” to hit – just in order to prove their existence. But disasters since 2001 are showing business managers [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | April 23, 2010 | 1 Comment
John Morency here again. For many organizations, simply completing the recovery of a set of mission-critical applications and data over the course of a test exercise is sufficient for declaring success. The elapsed time consumed for recovery completion, if measured at all, is often a secondary consideration. However, this definition of success is often at [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | April 23, 2010 | 1 Comment
We all knew Iceland’s economy had gone up in smoke, but few were following that one of its volcanoes would do likewise. The April 2010 Icelandic Eyjafjallajokull volcanic eruption has created the largest-ever peacetime disruption to global air travel, even more than 9/11. Planning for transportation interruptions must be part of every business continuity management program. Read our note: [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | February 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
Many people are asking the question: Why did we make such a big deal around the H1N1 pandemic – nothing much has happened? And now, the WHO is going to convene a team to determine if they can downgrade its importance. I think we all agree that it is a good thing if the H1N1 [...]
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