Business Continuity Awards 2011

Crisis Solutions are once again sponsoring a category at next years prestigious Business Continuity Awards.

The category: Crisis Strategy of the Year.

The Business Continuity Awards recognise those business continuity, security, resilience and risk professionals whose innovative strategies and industry savvy make them stand out above the rest.

Judged by an independent panel of experts for exceptional performance, service and results in this dynamic industry, the winners in this year’s 20 categories will be honored and awarded at a gala dinner and ceremony on Wednesday 30th May 2012 – an evening that brings together industry leaders for a night of networking and celebration.

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Near misses and direct hits

The Lizard's alter ego Jim Preen has just had an article published on Continuity Central. Here's a taster:

The argument goes like this. Business continuity is not about the little disturbances and the day-to-day interruptions. That’s incident management; and not to be confused with a major incident that knocks out all your IT or leaves your HQ a smouldering wreck. Incident management is a different beast from business continuity management and requires different processes and resources.

Sure, you can argue about where the line is drawn between incident management and business continuity, but they are different disciplines and not to be confused.

But is this a correct or, even, a useful distinction?

Let’s look at IT for a moment. Systems are often brought down by a series of small disasters that can create more frequent downtime than a really big catastrophe. If you have a number of small-scale outages you may irritate staff and clients as much as if you’d undergone a full-scale incident.

Smaller disasters are often handled ad hoc and if the problem is easily overcome people assume that planning isn’t necessary. Conversely if the issue isn’t quickly resolved the blame game starts and staff complain that plans and training are inadequate.

But there’s more to it than that.

Read more here.