Business Continuity

Adaptive Business Continuity: A NEW Approach

January 16, 2019 By p r

Have you begun to question traditional best practices in business continuity (BC)? Do you seem to be concentrating on documentation rather than preparedness? Compliance rather than recoverability? Do your efforts provide true business value? If you have these concerns, David Lindstedt and Mark Armour offer a solution in Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach. This ground-breaking book provides a streamlined, realistic methodology to change BC dramatically.

Webinar – Six Drivers and Ten Principles: An Introduction to Adaptive Business Continuity

January 3, 2019 By p r

Six Drivers and Ten Principles: An Introduction to Adaptive Business Continuity
Thursday, January 17, 2019
2:00 p.m. ET
REGISTER HERE Adaptive Business Continuity (Adaptive BC) is an approach to continuously improve an organization’s recovery capabilities, with a focus on the continued delivery of services following an unexpected unavailability of people, locations, and/or resources. Adaptive BC transforms or eliminates the majority of traditional activities in the continuity planning industry.

It focuses the discipline and its practitioners on proven practices and away from outdated and ineffectual “best” practices. Join author, speaker, and unconventional business continuity thought-leader David Lindstedt as he presents Six Drivers and Ten Principles: An Introduction to Adaptive BC, an in-depth discussion that explores the ways in which Adaptive BC better equips continuity practitioners by enhancing their ability to limit potential damage to organizations’ brand, capital, functions, and revenue following an incident or disaster. Continuity Insights will be hosting this complementary webinar on Thursday, January 17, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. ET. Register here to learn more about this critical topic:
Six Drivers and Ten Principles: An Introduction to Adaptive BC.

Learn more about Adaptive Business Continuity from the groundbreaking book, Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach!

Are You Wasting Your Full Business Continuity Potential?

August 29, 2018 By p r

Adaptive Business Continuity may deliver value 11 to 18 times faster than traditional BC practices.

By staying with Traditional Business Continuity practices that date back to IBM mainframes and Y2K, practices that have yet to catch up to Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, Management 3.0, and the nature of life in 2018, you are significantly limiting your potential as a BC professional.

An approach that empowered you to be twice or three times more efficient in your professional role would most most certainly warrant some consideration — one that offered ELEVEN times more productivity, eleven times more value for your efforts, demands attention.

DRJ Presents It’s 59th Conference: Reimagining Business Resiliency

July 27, 2018 By p r

We’re thrilled to be returning to Phoenix, Arizona, for our 59th conference. We are looking forward to seeing you in Phoenix September 23-26, 2018, for your exclusive opportunity to spend three days with top industry experts. Gain the skills and knowledge you need to feel confident your organization is resilient and prepared for risk. Our goal at all of our conferences is to give you ample opportunities to learn, network, relax and to connect with your peers. Use your time at Fall World 2018 to connect with other likeminded professionals to learn the latest in business continuity and share strategies with one another that can strengthen your business. Our theme of “Reimagining Business Resiliency” ensures you’re equipped for today’s disruptions and tomorrow’s emerging threats.

“This is my first DRJ conference. I found the vast array of information offered excellent! I feel my organization can greatly benefit from the data and topics covered.”

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Full Program Announced for Continuity Insights’ 2018 New York Conference

July 9, 2018 By p r

Full Program Announced for Continuity Insights’ 2018 New York Conference

Leading regional business continuity educational event to be presented
in partnership with the Contingency Planning Exchange

Continuity Insights and the Contingency Planning Exchange have announced the full conference program, including keynotes, speakers, and sessions, for the 2018 Continuity Insights New York Conference, taking place October 22 at the Wyndham New Yorker Hotel in the heart of New York City.

BCI Manifesto for Organizational Resilience

June 24, 2018 By p r

The world is an ever-changing landscape in terms of risk, and as these changes happen, the business continuity and resilience industry must evolve.

The BCI is proud to be a part of this evolution and we are releasing our Manifesto for Organizational Resilience during Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) 2018.

The manifesto positions us within the organizational resilience sphere; not as the ‘know-all’ organization, but as a central point for collaboration across all management disciplines.

The Unbearable Lightness of BC-ing

May 25, 2018 By p r

The move from Traditional to Adaptive Business Continuity (BC) may be uncomfortable for a number of reasons, but perhaps the most uncomfortable change concerns the general elimination of documentation as a deliverable.

Traditional BC centers almost entirely around documentation. The practitioner begins by obtaining full executive approval, then creates the BC policy document, “the key document that sets out the purpose, context, scope, and governance of the business continuity programme” (BCI GPG p.14). The practitioner then generates an RA, and, from one to four types of BIAs (ibid p.38). The center of the Traditional BC universe is the plan. The job of the BC practitioner is to create the plan, make sure everyone is familiar with the plan, and then update the plan on a regular basis. Tests are then conducted to validate “that the plans are current, accurate, effective, and complete” (ibid p.87). All these documentation activities most likely take place for every department (or process!) within the organization, thus resulting in mounds of proverbial “shelfware.”

In stark contrast, the Adaptive BC approach focuses on recovery capabilities.

BCI Manifesto for Organizational Resilience

May 15, 2018 By p r

The world is an ever-changing landscape in terms of risk, and as these changes happen, the business continuity and resilience industry must evolve.

The BCI is proud to be a part of this evolution and we are releasing our Manifesto for Organizational Resilience during Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) 2018.

The manifesto positions us within the organizational resilience sphere; not as the ‘know-all’ organization, but as a central point for collaboration across all management disciplines.

On Stones, Clay and Rubber Balls, by Mark Armour

May 9, 2018 By p r

Why we need to agree on our definitions and change our thinking around risk management, business continuity and resilience.

First, this is not about where the responsibility for business continuity should reside within an organization. It is about the responsibilities of the business continuity profession and its practitioners. Lately, I’ve witnessed the practice of risk management begin to take over that of business continuity. Many practitioners promote this alignment and foster the perception that business continuity is simply a part of the practice of risk management. I say this is bad for both disciplines and the organizations they serve.

Register for the 2018 Continuity Insights Management Conference Today!

April 2, 2018 By p r

Join us in Miami, April 23-25, for the 2018 Continuity Insights Management Conference for insight, inspiration, and actionable ideas presented by an innovative network of leading business continuity and resiliency experts and practitioners discussing today’s hot-button topics and issues. The conference comprises three days of comprehensive educational programming, numerous networking functions, a review of the latest technologies and practices, additional certification*, pre- and post-conference workshops, and much more, offering unmatched opportunities to learn from and network with those responsible for the integrity, availability, resilience, and security of their organizations.