Entries Tagged as 'Business Continuity Management'
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 15, 2011 | Comments Off
by Roberta J. Witty | March 3, 2011 | 1 Comment
I’ve been in Australia for the last few days running workshops on how Queensland responded to the January/2011 floods. There were actually three flooding events: flash flooding in the western area (Toowoomba and Grantham), and then a few days later, flooding in the northern area and central district of Brisbane occurred. Many people lost their [...]
Category: Advisory Tags: Availability Risk, BCM, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, 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, Recovery Planning, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | February 9, 2011 | 3 Comments
I live in CT. I have snow on my roof. Lots of it. For the last few weeks, I’ve used a snow rake to remove it from my rather flat sunroom roof. With almost daily news reports hailing roof collapses due to the weight of snow in excess of two feet in some places, you’d [...]
Category: Advisory Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, BCM, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, compliance, Disaster Recovery, ediscovery, IT Disaster Recovery, records management, 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
by Roberta J. Witty | November 30, 2010 | 6 Comments
At the end of 2010, most workers can’t live without collaboration tools – at least instant messaging to communicate immediately to a group of co-workers. But during a power outage that takes out your data center, and therefore access to these tools through a controlled IT infrastructure, collaboration is of utmost need. This is where [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, BCM, BCP, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, 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, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Roberta Witty
by Roberta J. Witty | October 26, 2010 | 1 Comment
With the publication of the BCM Policy template on 21 October 2010, Gartner completes its research bundle on the BCM governance framework. Customers now have access to a definition note on what BCM governance is plus three customizable toolkits: a BCM charter, BCM policy and BCM responsibility matrix. Each note is listed below. Business Continuity [...]
Category: Advisory 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, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Governance, H1N1, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Roberta Witty, swine flu, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | September 1, 2010 | 3 Comments
The goal of U.S. National Preparedness Month (NPM) is “…to stress the importance of strengthening the security and resiliency of our Nation through systematic preparation for the full range of hazards threatening the United States in the 21st century, including natural disasters, cyber attacks, pandemic disease, and acts of terrorism.” Read the full proclamation: Presidential [...]
Category: Advisory 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 Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Roberta Witty, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | June 11, 2010 | Comments Off
Getting management attention and investment commitment for BCM can be hard. Linking key performance indicators to key risk indicators for 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 investments year over [...]
Category: Advisory Tags: BCP, Business Continuity Management, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, COOP, Disaster Recovery, IT Disaster Recovery, Operational Risk Management, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Roberta Witty, Workforce Continuity
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 [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Availability Risk, BCM, BCP, 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, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Workforce Continuity
