I’ve often run into people that have to ‘send an email’ with a question for a person that’s located on a few seats away. Are they afraid of that person? Why can’t they just get up and go see them for a couple of minutes to ask what they need to ask? It seems the art of face-to-face communication is disappearing in favor of CYA (Cover You’re A…) and audit concerns. Continue reading
Category Archives: Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
BCM / DR: Managing a Schedule
When planning our various BCM/DR components, you need to build and maintain some level of a schedule. If you don’t have a schedule built for let’s say the BIA or the development of a Crisis Communications Plan, then Executives will never know when to expect the results and participants will continually ‘put you off’. Continue reading
BCM & DR: Mergers & Acquisitions (Part 2)
As noted in Part 1, if you’re going to be merging all areas of the two companies and the acquired will be engulfed or swallowed up by the acquiring company, then BCM/DR has a very large workload ahead of itself. In some regards, it’ll be like starting over but you’ll know half the BCM need already. Continue reading
BCM & DR: Decision Management
When you’re building a BCM / DR program, there are allot of decisions to be made along the way. Some come from results of a BIA or other information gathering session and some have to be made through feedback received from the sponsor based on a potential roadblock encountered. Regardless, decisions get made and when they do, you – as the BCM / DR practitioner – should document these decisions. Continue reading
NEW BCM / DR TEMPLATES! Now Available at Stone-Road.com
We’re happy to announce that we now have updated Business Continuity Management (BCM) document templates available at http://www.stone-road.com. We’ve removed the older 2003 versions, and now have everything in a 2010 version.
Here’s what you can find: Continue reading
BUSINESS CONTINUITY & DISASTER PLANNING BOOKS BY ALEX FULLICK: eBOOKS / KINDLE VERSIONS NOW AVAILABLE!!
We are happy to announce that ebook / Kindle versions of all books by StoneRoad founder A.Alex Fullick, are now available from Amazon.com (and other Global Amazon sites).
We hope these information sources help you with your Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery Program efforts. Keep your eyes open for more BCM / DR information sources coming from A.Alex Fullick and StoneRoad.
Happy planning!
Regards,
The StoneRoad Team.
PS: Congrats boss! 😉
© StoneRoad 2015
A.Alex Fullick has over 18 years’ experience working in Business Continuity and is the author of numerous books, including “Heads in the Sand” and “BIA: Building the Foundation for a Strong Business Continuity Program.”
Hello StoneRoad followers,
We’re thrilled to let you know that two books by our founder, A.Alex Fullick are now back in stock on Amazon. It was enough to know they’ve sold out a couple of times and now we’re happy they are back and available once more…hopefully no more “Temporarily out of stock” messages for awhile.
1) Business Impact Analysis – Building the Foundation for a Strong Business Continuity Program
2) Testing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans: How to Plan and Execute Successful Tests
Well done boss!
The StoneRoad Team (c) 2015 Stone Road Inc
