If anyone attended the above meeting today in Northampton, I hope you went away with some key messages and thoughts within your own environments. Don’t wait for an incident to happen, ensure you have robust Business Continuity Plans in place and most importantly that they will work when you need them.

Really excited about 2012 and what it will bring for KEY BCM. Lots of initiatives and some great ideas to grow the business. Thank you to everyone who has supported us through 2011. We trust we will be able to offer a far wider range of services during 2012 as the Business Continuity industry matures. [...]

Whilst many schools are now moving to Academy status they become stand alone and are now in need of developing their own Business Continuity Plans and Disaster Recovery documentation. Something they have not had to consider before and the task is potentially seen as a little daunting. If you are an Academy and require an [...]

Just on the train heading for the Liverpool Law Society where we have been asked to speak on Business Continuity Management. Attendees will consist of both lawyers an non-lawyers with no doubt varied levels of knowledge regarding Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. Popping in a little bit too around Risk and BS25999. Looking forward to [...]

We attended the Northampton Chambers networking event last night. It was an excellent venue at the Derngate and Royal in the Town Centre. The event was extremely interesting with three presentations. It was great to get back networking again after being out of the country for so long. Explaining what we do always kicks off [...]

Well this appears to be the ‘word on the streets’ here in Scotland this week. Urging people to get ready for the anticipated bad weather over the coming months, doing everything to avoid the high number of incidents experienced earlier this year. Space blankets are being issued by the Scottish council along with advise on [...]

Thinking about the inevitable cold weather looming ahead and of course the snow. There are some things that we really should be considering to ensure we plan ahead. Personally, I will be ensuring that I have my wellingtons/heavy coat/gloves/water and some breakfast bars in the boot of my car. If I do get stuck, at [...]

Today is a full day developing and reviewing a number of Business Impact Analysis documents. These are the cornerstone of any successful BCM capability and therefore the accuracy of the data captured is essential, as it is this that the overall recovery strategy will be based upon. Providing evidence to the IT community on what [...]

Today is our dress rehearsal day for the Merger and Divestment Business Continuity presentation, if a few weeks. Webenar is not working as I would have hoped – there are some things that just do not go well on a MAC – I guess this is just one of them. So the manual approach is [...]

We attended a workshop yesterday, facilitated by the BSI regarding the current Business Continuity Standard BS25999. Very informative with some good case studies. It will be interesting to see how ISO22301 is taken up following the success of BS25999, as this will add to the current suite of services that we already provide. If anyone [...]