Extending Business Continuity Plan Content
There will always be an array of other details to be included in the Business Continuity Plan. Each organization should analyze their needs (i.e. what information can't we do without?). The minimum...
View ArticleFormat and Content of a Business Continuity Plan
The format and content of the Business Continuity Plan is extremely important. In a disaster situation, the reader should be able to pick up the document having not read it (although it is preferable...
View ArticleTesting and Maintaining the Business Continuity Plan Part 1
Regular reviews of the Business Continuity Plan is essential to ensure it reflects the organization's overall objectives, its key business functions, the corresponding processes and resources and an...
View ArticleTesting and Maintaining the Business Continuity Plan Part 2
There are several approaches that may be utilized to test the business continuity plan: Paper - ensures there is adequate capacity and availability of resources when the Business Continuity Plan is...
View ArticleWould the TOGAF User Group be able to open up the standard?
The idea of looking into other Enterprise Architecture frameworks is right but it would hardly materialise in a TOGAF User Group
View ArticleMaintaining the Business Continuity Plan
Individual recovery team plans must be continually maintained to provide support for business continuity. Administrative procedures and guidelines should be developed to provide for periodic testing...
View ArticleConsiderations for Alternate Processing Services Contracts Part 1
In the process of setting out your business continuity plans, one major element will be the negotiation of alternate service providers and migrations of servers, services, data, and other process to...
View ArticleConsiderations for Alternate Processing Services Contracts Part 2
In the process of setting out your business continuity plans, one major element will be the negotiation of alternate service providers and migrations of servers, services, data, and other process to...
View ArticleBuilding a Better Board and Audit Committee
Part of your business continuity planning should be establishing a board and audit committee that oversees a lot of the processes and functions of maintaining the business continuity and recovery...
View ArticleIs the TOGAF User Group able to open up the standard? (i)
continuing. The Open Group Takes a New Step with "the first meeting of a TOGAF User Group... And it would be good perhaps if 3. the TOGAF User Group assesses first what TOGAF delivers, whether it...
View ArticleRole of the Chief Executive Officer in Business Continuity
The Chief Executive Officer plays a key role in the decision making and communication processes of you business continuity plans. These roles and responsibilities include: Brief senior management and...
View ArticleRole of the Recovery Coordinator in Business Continuity
In my previous post, we looked at the role of the CEO in a business continuity planning context, for this post, we will focus on the Recovery Coordinator. The Recovery Coordinator is obviously the...
View ArticleRole of the Service Area Recovery Teams in Business Continuity
Now we have moved through the roles of the CEO and the Recovery Coordinator, now it is down to the different service area recovery teams. These include two key teams – Human Resource Management Team...
View ArticleIs the TOGAF User Group able to open up the standard? (ii)
TOGAF should "Say What It Does" while "Do What It Says".
View ArticleChecklist for the Business Continuity Plan Proposal
The business continuity project plan should adequately describe the project, its objective and scope, the project team and its responsibilities, and the resources required. The Chief Executive or...
View ArticleChecklist for Identifying Key Business Processes, Activities and Resources
The Business Impact Assessment needs to assess the impact of an outage to all key business processes. It ranks these processes in order, to determine recovery priorities and identifies the activities...
View ArticleChecklist for Analyzing Key Business Functions for Business Impact Assessments
The Business Impact Assessment determines the length of time the organization can be without key business processes before remedial action must be taken. As the key business processes are made up of...
View ArticleChecklists for Selecting Process / Resource alternatives and Off-site Backup
To select alternate activities and resources to be used during an outage, consideration of all viable options is paramount. This consideration encompass each options ability to substitute for the lost...
View ArticleChecklist for Ensuring Continuity Strategies are Properly Implemented
It is essential that the selected continuity strategies are implemented properly and tested. The Business Continuity Plan will rely on the selected continuity strategies being in place prior to...
View ArticleChecklist for Evaluating Levels of Communication in a Business Continuity Plan
When activated, the success of a Business Continuity Plan will rely heavily on open communication and sharing of relevant information. Following the declaration of a disaster, information on...
View ArticleChecklist for Assessing a Disaster
The Business Continuity Plan needs to outline the steps and issues that ought to be considered when assessing the impact of a disaster. The Recovery Coordinator must be able to advise the Chief...
View Article"Two Speed and Bimodal IT", what's new or different?
According to definitions though, Two Speed IT and Bimodal IT appear to be the same concept for all intent and purpose.
View ArticleMapping the Limitations of Your Business Continuity Plan
The Business Continuity Plan should recognize the factors that may limit recovery from a business interruption event. These factors should be documented in the Business Continuity Plan to ensure they...
View ArticleThe "DevOps, what's in it for us
DevOps, in its intention to integrate IT Development and Operations, demands in fact that IT Operations become as agile as the Development.
View ArticleThe Business Continuity Event Log Template
During a business interruption event it is important to record important information and decisions which were made during the outage. This information provides an important input to revising the...
View ArticleWhat can we do to mitigate the Digital tsunami threat?
The dark cloud that threatens our enterprise is the Digital technology progress pace and amount of change that gives us less and less time to breath.
View ArticleWhat can we do to mitigate the Digital tsunami threat? (i)
But why not fight the technology threat with technology?
View ArticleTo run in the Digital race we must build an emerging technologies function
Setting you up to understand the technology landscape is key to determine what technologies would affect us the most. Because we cannot adopt them all. And you have to implement them in concert while...
View ArticleMcKinsey's nine questions for the digital transformation, how relevant are they?
what leaders should review, is alternative target operating models or big pictures and new business models for the enterprise, so that they can understand how the business will be changed and be able...
View ArticleMcKinsey's nine questions for the digital transformation (i)
continuing Comments on McKinsey's article on "Nine questions to help you get your digital transformation right". "Do you know which customer journeys matter?" What they (McKinsey) say is that the...
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