… the new BCM process (AS/NZS 5050 Pt3)

AS/NZS 5050, P22
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series BC Standards

In this final part of the review of AS/NZS 5050 I will look at the third key part of the model – the Process. The process is illustrated in the graphic at right, and is essentially the risk management process derived from AS/4360 and ISO-31000. While this may seem to be contrary to conventional BCM [...]

… RSS highlights

It is Friday again, and here is some suggestions for weekend reading that you may want to sample. For the second week in a row I am going to highlight a post from the IT Skeptic. This week, “Why IT Projects fail:underspend“. If you substitute in your mind “BC Project” for “IT Project” I suspect [...]

… review of AS/NZS 5050 (Pt 1)

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This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series BC Standards

This post is the first in a series looking at different standards in the Business Continuity and Resilience arena. The obvious place to start is with the newest players in this space – the Australian Standard. This standard has had mixed response – the most extreme views coming form the Business Continuity Institute as I noted [...]

… a ‘question’ of standards

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Following on from my post yesterday I found myself  contemplating … What is the correct collective noun for a group of Standards or ‘Best Practice’ guides? We clearly have competition and crusades due to the numerous guides in the BCM space. Some suggestions; a bewilderment confusing or perplexing situation a confusion lack of clarity, state [...]

… synergy rather than convergence

Railtrack

I have recently been included in a Working Party initiated by the Busines Continuity Institute in the UK. This Working Party has the label ‘Discipline Mapping’ – it will focus on how a range of different disciplines can contribute to the building and maintaining resilience. A lot of the talk in this area has been around [...]