A lot has been written in the past week about the problems experienced by Research In Motion (RIM) and their Blackberry platform. Some of it highlights significant failings in the way we approach Business Continuity. For those of you who missed the story, here is the very short version. Outage was originally experienced in the [...]
… on the road again …
August 25, 2011 By 1 Comment
… BCM at the crossroads
August 22, 2011 By 1 Comment
I read an interesting piece of thought leadership today – Luc Klein’s paper that challenges us to think critically about what BCM should be, entitled “Is Business Continuity Management a misnomer?” If you haven’t heard about this paper you soon will, and you should click through and read it. The author argues that BCM as [...]
… thought leadership and inspiration
August 19, 2011 By 2 Comments
A combination of reduced inspiration and the increase in financial processing associated with the end of the financial year here, have led to me not posting anything the past few weeks. During this period I have read a number of interesting posts and articles, many of them “starred” in Google Reader and Twitter for future [...]
… BCM lessons from the American Civil War
July 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This year marks the 150th Anniversary of the start of the American Civil War. While I was in the USA last month I took the opportunity to respect that anniversary by visiting a number of Civil War memorial locations. While listening to the National Park guides and the video presentations it struck me that there [...]
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