What is Continuity Management?

The Business Continuity Institute's Good Practice Guidelines defines Business Continuity Management as a holistic management process that identifies potential impacts that threaten an organisation and provides a framework for building resilience and the capability for an effective response which safeguards the interests of its key stakeholders, reputation, brand and value creating activities.

What this means in practice is that you need to develop an action plan to respond to major (and minor) incidents which could involve damage or prolonged denial of access to your site. This does not mean you need a complete duplicate site. By looking at how the impacts of the incident you can work out which processes are most urgent and which can be left for a while. A continuity strategy can then be put in place to ensure that processes can be resumed before their loss threatens the survival of the organisation.

This is not a one-off exercise. The continuity plan must be exercised regularly and kept up to date. Further resilience can be achieved by embedding continuity principles within the organisation to influence decisions at all levels.

From the BCI Good Practice Guidelines (2007)

If you want to explode a few myths about your ability to survive a major incident then look at the Bad News.

If you want some examples of how Continuity Systems has assisted a variety of organisations to take effective and appropriate measures to protect their operations then look at the Good News.

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