Roberta Witty

We define BCM as having six components under the BCM umbrella term:

1. Crisis Management

2. Emergency Response

3. IT Disaster Recovery Management

4. Business Recovery

5. Contingency Planning

6. Pandemic Planning

Read our Business Continuity Management Defined, 2008 note to get the detail behind each component.

Check out these research notes to find out what Gartner has to say about your job as the Business Continuity Manager and how to do it.

Gartner for IT Leaders Overview: The Business Continuity Manager

Toolkit: Job Description for Business Continuity Manager

Top Five Issues and Research Agenda, 2008: The Business Continuity Manager

Activity Cycle Overview: Business Continuity Manager Role

Since many people involved in BCM and IT DRM are not aware of our expanded coverage, I think it’s important to understand how we cover the topics.  Our coverage for BCM and IT DRM processes and technologies is modeled after how enterprises should do it: whoever is responsible for the primary/production issue is also responsible for defining the recovery requirements and solutions. Since we have more than 20 analysts covering BCM and IT DRM research, our first annual Hype Cycle for Business Continuity Management is quite extensive.

Finally, I thought it would be extremely useful to publish an index of all Gartner BCM and IT DRM research so that you can find the analyst who best meets for recovery research needs: Research Roundup: Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery, January 2009. Check it out – we’ve been very busy.