Entries Tagged as 'Crisis Management'
by Roberta J. Witty | April 1, 2009 | Comments Off
Many enterprises have successful (up-to-date and exercised) recovery plans in place for technology outages, or for a disaster that strikes the data center. But they aren’t as prepared to handle the public communications, community/government coordiation and workforce continuity aspects of a crisis. Recognizing that gap in their overall business resilience, a growing number of organizations are implementing [...]
Category: BCM and IT DRM Research Coverage 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, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | March 18, 2009 | 1 Comment
The ongoing global economic crisis is having a severe impact on business continuity management (BCM), in the United States and elsewhere. Senior managers are being downsized to cut head count and compensation costs. Recovery projects and enhancements are being delayed or canceled altogether as IT budgets are slashed. But there is some good news: Gartner [...]
Category: BCM and IT DRM Research Coverage 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, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | March 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
Continuity, recovery and resiliency managers really have their work cut out for them during this economic crisis. As the workforce shrinks, recovery plans quickly become out-of-date. Do you know how accurate your plans are right now? Management isn’t even thinking about this right now – but you should be. Read my colleague Rick DeLotto’s new post [...]
Category: BCM and IT DRM Research Coverage 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, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | March 10, 2009 | Comments Off
My colleague Rick DeLotto from Gartner’s Banking and Investment Industry Advisory Service, granted me permission to re-print his most recent Gartner blog post on the impact of the financial crisis on bank business continuity management plans. Read his post below. Rick DeLotto here again—and I have got to stop watching the morning news… Here in the [...]
Category: BCM and IT DRM Research Coverage 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, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | March 9, 2009 | Comments Off
I’m researching the state of maturity of BCM and IT DRM programs. What I know is that the process shouldn’t require hours of time, pages of documentation and teams of people to execute. So here’s where I’d like your help: Take Gartner’s self-assessment to determine your company’s BCM maturity. http://www.gartnerinfo.com/rate3/index.html
Category: BCM and IT DRM Research Coverage 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, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | March 7, 2009 | Comments Off
While on Wall St. in the mid-90s, the nickname my trading floor senior executive gave me was the “Fire, Flood and Bomb Lady”. Ouch! I’ve come a long way as they say, and so should every manager responsible for business continuity starting now. At the NEDRIX Winter Conference last week, discussion focused on how to take the results of [...]
Category: BCM and IT DRM Research Coverage 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, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | March 4, 2009 | Comments Off
Every enterprise BCM program is dependent on its workforce to be part of its recovery efforts. No workforce, no recovery. But is your workforce prepared to come to the enterprise’s rescue when they themselves are impacted by the event? You can’t demand that workers be there for you, but you can prepare them to be [...]
Category: BCM and IT DRM Research Coverage 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, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | February 25, 2009 | Comments Off
I’ve been hearing a few reports regarding disaster declarations in facilities that are developed using green building practices. This is an interesting one. The premise is that automatic flush/energy-saving toilets are often not on generator backup. Therefore, local health officials can close the building because of the health risk posed by non-flushing toilets. The enterprise [...]
Category: BCM and IT DRM Research Coverage 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, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | February 18, 2009 | Comments Off
Gartner has been researching IT disaster recovery (IT DRM) since the mid-90s. Our coverage of “all things recovery” took on added focus after September 11. But our coverage for business continuity management (BCM) has only gone “full-time” since January/2008 when I transitioned from identity and access management to covering the BCM topic with the inception of the [...]
Category: BCM and IT DRM Research Coverage 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, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Workforce Continuity
