Fear incapacitates – demystify BCM Here are four ideas about how to increase participation in BCM programs. Picking up on a theme I shared in previous blogs such as A Customer Focus Means Enhanced Resilience and Future Business Continuity Is Customer-Centric, one of our challenges is not providing a return on value. By this, I
Returning employees to offices during COVID Emergency return to work during COVID is a challenging proposition. Many of you shared having employees working in offices throughout the pandemic. For the most part, the employees and contractors accessing offices are considered essential employees that need to continue critical functions. Often, crucial personnel fulfills key continuity roles.
Customers are our Northstar The future of business continuity is customer-centric. Moving forward, we need to embrace a customer focus as our guiding star. I am not the only one to suggest this idea. Picking up on the concepts I shared in Business Continuity Plans Are Dead and Why Dashboards Are Better Than BCPS, I
Plan are dusty doorstops Business continuity plans are dead. It is a bold statement to make. Instead, the future is moving towards real-time data visualization. I understand that some of you may wonder how we can accomplish our business continuity objectives without plans. To that, I ask you to remember how many times we reference
July 2020 Business Continuity Management Value In this week’s blog, I am reflecting on the top three reasons for a business continuity program. Our recent experience with COVID-19 has demonstrated an established Business Continuity Management Program’s value. Throughout the pandemic, the benefits of having a business continuity program are clear versus companies without a real-time
Ashley Goosman business continuity podcast I was interviewed on Facilities Risk: Business Continuity for FMForward: Dedicated to the Rapidly Changing Landscape of Facility Management. In this week’s post, I am sharing the podcast I did for the International Facility Managers Association (IFMA) Boston. FMForward is their new podcast series. Podcast Introduction: Do you ever get
Honored by a DRJ career spotlight I was grateful to be the focus of the January 2020 Disaster Recovery Journal’s Career Spotlight. For those unfamiliar with the Disaster Recovery Journal, they are a premier business continuity publication worldwide. The DRJ Career Development Committee featured me because they support sharing the career paths of professionals in
Business Continuity and Crisis Management are often confused as the same thing Recently, I have run across an interesting problem. It’s something that came up recently, and I want to share it with you. People around me are taking opposing views about whether business continuity and crisis management are the same things or not. One
