New ISO 22301:2012 BCM Standard Places Executive Governance Front and Center
The new ISO business continuity management standard’s heightened focus on executive governance may make it more rigorous to implement than its predecessor, but will result in BCM program improvements...
View ArticleSeptember is National Preparedness Month in the U.S.: Take Advantage of It
It’s September. Kids are back to school and we adults have an internal clock driving us to start something new. BCM professionals can take advantage of this quest by leveraging the annual U.S. National...
View ArticleSuperstorm Sandy: October 31, 2012 Gartner Blog Post Summary #Sandy
One of the things I take seriously as a part of my job is making it easy for Gartner clients to get access to our research in a timely manner. So here is the list of Gartner BCM Blog posts related to...
View ArticleSuperstorm Sandy: November 1, 2012 Gartner Blog Post Summary #Sandy
One of the things I take seriously as a part of my job is making it easy for Gartner clients to get access to our research in a timely manner. So here is the list of Gartner BCM Blog posts related to...
View ArticleA Post from My Colleague Stan Aronow: Recovering Your Supply Chain in Times...
After the Japan-based earthquake and tsunami of March, 2011, the Gartner Supply Chain Research team published a short guide for managing through large-scale supply chain disruptions. As the impacts of...
View ArticleWhat About BYOD, Company-Sponsored Backup and Insurance Policy...
With BYOD and telework gaining in adoption in the U.S., the question arises as to how much the employer is willing to provide backup and recovery support for personal devices as well as home-based...
View ArticleWho Is Liable, and For How Much, When Your Third Party Isn’t Available?
Friday’s Bank of America outage reminded me of an increasingly frequent question we receive on third party liability due to an operating outage. The use of cloud service providers is making this...
View ArticleThe Europeans Have It: More Power and Better Data Wins in Weather Forecasting
Not many of us paid a lot of attention to the weather forecasting systems that the meteorologists use. When we did in the U.S., we were very cynical because the meteorologists just didn’t seem to get...
View ArticlexMatters Acquisition Gives the Bamboo Incident Management Mobile App a Home
On 12 February 2013, emergency/mass notification services (EMNS) vendor xMatters purchased the intellectual property of Bamboo, an enterprise-level incident management mobile app from Deloitte...
View ArticleWhat’s a Happy App?
After researching BCM for so long, it’s making me think of the exact opposite: what does it mean to be safe, free, happy. It’s the same reaction as when you stare at something yellow for a minute:...
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