Business Continuity & Recovery
Articles about business continuity & recovery, within Resilience & Operations.
Rewarding the Delete Key: Why Removing Steps Increases Resilience
In the corporate world, we are addicted to Addition. When a problem occurs, our instinct is to add something. Over time, our Business Continuity Plans (BCP) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) become bloated monsters. They grow…
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Confessions of an Auditor: I Know You Didn’t Read That 200-Page Plan
I am sitting across the polished boardroom table from you. The air conditioning is humming. The coffee is mediocre. You slide it across the table. The Binder. It is 200 pages thick. Perfectly formatted. Professionally bound.…
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Hacking ISO 22301: Turning a Compliance Burden into a Competitive Advantage
Let’s be honest. When your boss tells you it’s time to get ISO 22301 (Business Continuity) certified, you don’t pump your fist in the air. You groan. You picture endless meetings, binders full of documents nobody…
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When the Water Rises, the Binder Sinks: Digitizing Resilience for Speed
There is a grim irony in storing your “Disaster Recovery Plan” on paper. Paper is made of wood. It burns. Paper dissolves in water. It rots. Paper is heavy. If your facility is hit by a…
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Is Your BCP Stale? Why “Days Since Last Edit” Matters More Than Annual Reviews
In the world of ISO 22301 (Business Continuity), there is one metric that rules them all: “Percentage of Plans Reviewed Annually.” Every year, the Business Continuity Manager chases department heads to sign off on their documents.…
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Git Commit Push: Treating Recovery Plans Like Open Source Code
Your chemical plant, manufacturing floor, or supply chain network is not a static statue. It is a living, breathing, rapidly evolving organism. Yet, we manage the Business Continuity Plans (BCP) for these dynamic systems using a…
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The Wikipedia of Resilience: Why Your Operators Should Edit the BCP
Wikipedia shouldn’t work. In theory, an encyclopedia that anyone can edit should be a disaster of misinformation and vandalism. Yet, it is the largest, most up-to-date repository of human knowledge in history. Why? Because of Distributed…
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No One Reads PDFs in a Fire: Designing Procedures for Adrenaline Brains
Imagine the alarm goes off. It’s 2:00 AM. A containment alarm is screaming. Steam is venting across the walkway. Your heart rate spikes to 140 beats per minute. Your hands are shaking. In this moment, your…
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Your ISO 22301 Binder is a Fire Hazard: Why Static Plans Fail
We have all heard “The Thump.” It is the sound of a 400-page Business Continuity Plan (BCP) being dropped onto a boardroom table. It is heavy, impressive, and perfectly formatted. It satisfies the external auditor. It…
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