Adaptive Business Continuity

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.

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.

Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach – NEW Book

November 11, 2017 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 new book provides a streamlined, realistic methodology to change BC dramatically.

New eBook: Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach

July 13, 2017 By p r