The Adjusted Recovery Confidence Factor ©
Over the past few months I have been involved with a number of business continuity planning professionals discussing the best metrics for reporting on a company's state of readiness. This has gotten me...
View ArticleThoughts and Quotes on Planning and Plans
Mike Tyson is quoted as saying, “Everyone has a plan, ‘till they get punched in the mouth.” How well do your plans stand up to the punch in the mouth? Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke put it this way,...
View ArticleWhere to Start the Planning Process?
Although, the terminology is sometimes different, business continuity planning professionals follow a pretty standard, cyclical planning methodology as depicted in this Wikipedia article:...
View ArticleThe Business Continuity Planning Jargon Problem
I have just been in Linked-In again checking out the Business Continuity Group pages and came across another discussion where a practitioner is frustrated with the inconsistent use of terminology to...
View ArticleWhy I Hate the Word "Plan"
In a previous blog I discussed, and most of us already understand, that business continuity, disaster recovery and crisis management professionals are challenged by use of an inexact and often...
View ArticleDRJ Fall World 2012 - Drinks Are On Me
Registration is completed. Plane tickets are purchased. Hotel room is reserved. Calendar is blocked out. Now all I have to do is count down the days until the DRJ Fall World 2012 Conference in San...
View ArticleDefining Recovery Requirements
Remember the movie, "The Jerk", with Steve Martin? Great movie. Anyway, there is a scene in this movie where Navin Johnson (Steve Martin’s character) loses all his money and walks out of the house...
View ArticleBusiness Continuity Planning - Beyond the Doomsday Scenario
At a conference I recently attended there was a lot of conversation around PS-Prep which bled into the discussion of “Why get certified” or, the more generic question of, “Why perform business...
View ArticleSummer is Coming to an End - That Must Mean It's DRJ Fall World
I wish I could tell you that my summer was spent vacationing in some exotic location without internet access; or I was deep in remote third world countries performing humanitarian work for...
View ArticleReturning From San Diego a Little Bit Wiser
I was first given responsibility for disaster recovery planning in 1985 while working at, what was then known as, Bank of Virginia in Richmond, VA. We were a UNISYS shop and had a mainframe recovery...
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