Since 2000, our world has seen dramatic changes that have caused an evolution in business continuity thinking. It used to be that recovery-minded organizations focused on preventing and avoiding disasters. Today, it seems inevitable that nearly everyone will be faced with unexpected “bumps” in the terrain from time to time. The focus is changing from avoidance of threat to “landing on your feet” in spite of it.

In other words, organizations have found it necessary to become better prepared and be more proactive about risk management. While the imagined “disaster” in a disaster recovery scenario used to be an environmental one – fire, flood, or tornado – thus far in the 21st century we’ve seen likely examples of “disaster” expand to include terrorist attacks with global political implications; strings of powerful hurricanes; international power grid failure; threats such as data worms and hackers; and ordinary business events such as mergers and acquisitions, increased outsourcing of business processes, and application process failures.

The bottom line these days is that if it’s disruptive to your organization, it’s a crisis, regardless of the cause. And the pressures for risk management planning are both internal and external.

At the midpoint of the first decade of the 21st century, certain trends in business continuity thinking have been established. A consideration of them, as well as several emerging trends, may help clarify what organizations need to consider today in order to prepare themselves for tomorrow.

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