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Before the pandemic, business continuity was defined based on how organizations can run their operations without impacting their overall productivity/deliverables. When there were any natural calamities or outages such as network or infrastructure, most organizations would be prepared with a plan for it and would conduct mock drills regularly. Then…
A “trusted digital ecosystem” and “business continuity” are seldom mentioned in one sentence, and quite wrongly so. Let’s start with the definition of the digital ecosystem. Hearing this term, one might think of IT systems, networks, maybe some peripheral devices like scanners or printers in the familiar business environment. But…
Digital transformation is a young discipline. It is a welcome aspect of business transformation, reorganizing and streamlining business processes, in order to make existing processes more efficient or creating new processes which would not have been possible without digital technology. I am thinking, for example, of processes like ordering from…
From a nondescript disease out in Wuhan, China, COVID-19 has become a force we have all had to contend with. Businesses, big and small, have been affected with varying degrees of positive and negative outcomes. As a middle-sized business owner, and a business continuity consultant, this crisis gave me a…
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the global business environment. During various global implementation practices for managing the pandemic, we were the audience to experience various lockdown regulations, businesses who had to make difficult decisions regarding cash flow, retrenchment of staff, placing of people on furlough and in severe circumstances, the…
We had a conversation with one of our ISO 22301 Masters, Ms. Rinske Geerlings, who is the founder of Business As Usual in Australia. …
While removing duplications, the revised standard has clearly distinguished the requirements (what) and the guidance (how). It should be noted that ISO 22313, a guidance document, will also be updated reflecting the changes of ISO 22301, and it will be published after the release of the new version of ISO…
Your goal is a mature, robust Business Continuity Management System – one of the key requirements for a more resilient organization. Significant amounts of time, effort, and energy have been invested, and the result is a program that aligns with ISO 22301 and meets organizational goals; one you may even…
Incident management and business continuity are an integral part of every successful company. The ability to survive an incident, continue operations during the event, and not stop growth after the incident is the definition of an organization with a vision! …
The first edition of ISO 22301 was launched in May 2012. It was the first truly internationally accepted standard on business continuity, and it consists of requirements to implement a Business Continuity Management System according to ISO Annex SL. As such, it stood in line with its prominent predecessors such…
