Business continuity, risk and resilience

Business continuity is a discipline that ensures that an organization’s critical functions are available to stakeholders, not just during a crisis, but every day.  There is a higher view, that business continuity should concern itself with organizational resilience, both short and long term. In other words, it works to ensure the survivability of an organization.  [...]

Groove in emergencies

An article in Microsoft’s TechNet Magazine post Katrina on Louisiana State University’s Emergency Operations Center, highlighted some deficiencies in ordinary IT during crises.  First, you can’t depend on vast bandwidth or even any bandwidth at all in an emergency.  Second, your constituency can increase dramatically.  One day you’re managing the IT needs of staff, the next, [...]

Blogs as breadcrumbs

As I’ve explained - our mission is to gather together all the digital breadcrumbs to give organizations a better view of who is available and where they are in times of crisis. To buy time.  Yesterday I went to a great seminar in London by Unicom on social networking tools and their business use.  With all [...]