Business Continuity Planning and those related Information Security Projects for most organizations have often been strategies and activities executed as a kind of an insurance policy to cover potential disasters that might happen to that organization.  By having a business continuity strategy or plan in place, management aims to provide mitigation and hopefully, even prevention, of  those problems – both internal and external —  affecting the business in a negative way. 

In an article written by Ian Masters,  and recently posted on the IT BusinessEdge blog, a point is made that looking forward, organizations are demanding more from their business continuity investments.  In other words, business continuity planning efforts along with business continuity software investments must have an additional ROI now presented to management — it is no longer enough to be simply an insurance policy against something going wrong.

Read this article for more information about this growing business continuity requirement trend.

The results of the Accenture 2009 Global Risk Management Study has  recently been released for public use.

Click here to get more information and view many of this important study.  It certainly is a resource that each company risk manager should have in their corporate library as well as ready for review in your next business continuity and contingency planning meetings.

One of our favorite authors of articles related to business continuity and contingency planning is Linda Tucci, a senior news writer for the CIO magazine.

In response to a presidential advisory group of leading scientists warning of possible absentee rates of 30% to 50% happening this coming flu season and lasting for an unknown duration, Linda Tucci has again given some very clear focus  on what companies should be doing now to mitigate this risk.

Click here to read more ….