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EP18: The Bus is Coming! What do we do? | David Lindstedt Mark Armour James Green

The Failover Plan Podcast

Mark is the author, along with David Lindstedt, PhD, of the Adaptive Business Continuity Manifesto and Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach. He is currently the Global Director of Business Continuity at Brink’s, Incorporated, the worldwide leader in cash management solutions and secure logistics. .

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Optimizing Your BC Program for the Permanent Hybrid Work Model  

MHA Consulting

Business continuity professionals need to be sure their recovery plans and strategies are fully adapted to the new reality. As a result, business continuity professionals need to optimize their recovery plans and strategies to ensure they are fully adapted to the new reality.

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The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

For these reasons, it’s important that IT departments (and business continuity professionals) make sure their organizations are capable of restoring their IT services after an outage. There are four main phases involved in doing this. Let’s look at them one by one. This is where the exercises you conducted in Phase 1 pay off.

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Business Continuity Capability – What is it and do I need it?

Plan B Consulting

The elements are: Training Equipment Personnel Information Doctrine and concepts Organisation Infrastructure Logistics Sum of the whole which makes capability The main point I want to make with talking about military capability is that if they want to achieve a task it is not just about going out and buying equipment, such as a military bridge.

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Business Continuity Capability – What is it and do I need it?

Plan B Consulting

The elements are: Training Equipment Personnel Information Doctrine and concepts Organisation Infrastructure Logistics. The UK military uses the mnemonic TEPID OIL to remember all the elements which go into achieving a capability. Sum of the whole which makes capability. We need to make sure our response will work.

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Is the response to COVID-19 a business continuity issue?

Plan B Consulting

The initial and obvious answer is yes, it is a business continuity issue and probably the largest incident most business continuity professionals will face in their lifetime. Certain sectors such as supermarkets, internet shopping and logistic companies then had a huge surge in demand.

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Is the response to COVID-19 a business continuity issue?

Plan B Consulting

The initial and obvious answer is yes, it is a business continuity issue and probably the largest incident most business continuity professionals will face in their lifetime. Certain sectors such as supermarkets, internet shopping and logistic companies then had a huge surge in demand.