Andy Osborne
Articles by Andy Osborne
Business Continuity Requires People with the ‘Right Stuff’
Someone once said that “the world is run by people who turn up”. The trouble is that sometimes the people who turn up aren’t necessarily the...
A Pincer Movement Is Best For Business Continuity Success
As with business continuity management in general, risk management is much more effective if a top down, bottom up approach is adopted. It’s all...
The Weakest Business Continuity Link…
It’s always important to manage your supply chain continuity and risks, but this is particularly relevant in times of economic downturn or...
Business Continuity Resilience
Splitting your IT equipment across multiple computer rooms is a good way of increasing resilience and reducing your risk, right? Not necessarily! Unless...
Business Continuity – Partnering for Success
A previous tip discussed the “post disaster” priorities of the emergency services and other public authorities. These organisations can be a...
Don’t Forget Your Business Continuity Testing
Some organisations think that a huge, complex, all-singing, all-dancing relocation test is the only way to prove their business continuity plan. This type of...
Business Continuity - It Ain’t What You Do; It’s The Way That You Say It…
The very best recovery plans in the world may ultimately come to nothing if, in a real crisis, those tricky communications aspects are handled...
A Fresh Perspective On Business Continuity Planning
The business impact analysis (BIA) is the cornerstone of the business continuity programme. So if you conducted one prior to developing your business...
Business Continuity : Carpe Diem
The first few hours following a disaster or major incident are crucial. Actions taken (or not taken) then can make or break the recovery. Get this right...
Business Continuity, Are You Ready For Inaction?
Why would anyone go to all the trouble of setting up their incident management team, assigning roles and responsibilities, briefing the team members, writing...
The Business Continuity Backlog Trap
“The backlog trap” is a phrase often used to describe the effect on a business of the backlog of work that builds up when a system or process is...
Proper Business Continuity Management Means Prevention And Cure…
A large part of business continuity management is concerned with developing recovery strategies and plans that would come into play in the event of a disaster...
Business Continuity Or Risk Management – Heads Or Tails?
Why is it that in organisations which have the luxury of having both a business continuity Manager and a Risk Manager, more often than not the two see their...
The Weakest Link…
It’s important to manage your supply chain continuity and risks at any time, but this is particularly relevant in times of economic downturn or...
Is Your Business Safe As Houses?...
Whilst fire safes offer some protection and can serve a useful purpose, they do have their limitations and these need to be understood when weighing up your...
