Examples of why Business Continuity (BC) or Disaster Recovery (DR) fail?
- Limited investment or corporate ownership, accountability or responsibility in all aspects of business continuity
- Limited risk analysis of business risk or critical services, lack of focus on the right things and/or future vision business objectives
- Limited stakeholder, supplier, supply chain or outsource services engagement and validation
- Unrealistic expectations, limited incident or event experience and knee jerk response to events or incidents
- Unclear BC programme management, key roles, responsibilities, ownership, accountability or maintenance mechanisms
- Filling in forms without appropriate training or understanding of BC
- Limited business continuity planning, plans, training, exercising or validation
- Limited communication strategies within an organisation and/or external business partners
- Limited assurance, review or feedback mechanisms to senior management or critical services leads
- Chasing the wrong rabbit………..