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The Exercise: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
Since 2005, Avalution Consulting has performed hundreds of business continuity exercises with organizations in every major industry and sector throughout the United States. No matter the scope of the exercise or the level of complexity, several key…
Avalution Team | Feb 08, 2012
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What Does Effective Business Continuity Management Look Like?
I recently read a column in the Disaster Recovery Journal where the editor interviewed John Copenhaver regarding Standards, Resilience and the Future of Business Continuity Management (BCM). John made the following statement when asked about the importance of…
Brian Zawada, FBCI | Jan 16, 2012
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Force Majeure: What is it and How Does it Relate to Business Continuity?
We see a lot of confusion specific to the topic of force majeure. Often, executive management has the belief that force majeure clauses in their contracts protect them from a wide variety of disruptive events, and thus…
Avalution Team | Nov 30, 2011
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More than a Plan: Establishing a Disaster Recovery Program
Many organizations think having a disaster recovery plan is all the protection they need from disasters. However, there is so much more to disaster recovery than just a plan! That’s why most industry professionals see disaster recovery…
Avalution Team | Oct 13, 2011
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An Update on TC 223 and ISO 22301
Online Exclusive – as published on drj.com | Updated June 2012 [EDITOR’S NOTE – Brian Zawada is a member of the US Technical Advisory Group to ISO Technical Committee 223. Zawada participated in the 2011 and 2012 meetings as a…
Brian Zawada, FBCI | Aug 11, 2011
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Business Continuity Scoping: Why Products and Services?
A Business Continuity Scoping Approach That Contributes to Better Management Engagement and Prioritization of Risk Management Efforts One of the most common questions business continuity professionals ask is how to keep management involved in the ongoing preparedness…
Avalution Team | Aug 09, 2011
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The Basics of ISO 31000 – Risk Management
After approval by the ISO member bodies, the ISO Technical Management Board Working Group on risk management released ISO 31000:2009, Risk Management – Principles and Guidelines in November of 2009. The authors designed the standard to be…
Avalution Team | Jan 19, 2011
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The Death of All Hazards Planning?
As published in the Summer 2010 Issue of the Disaster Recovery Journal – Volume 23, Number 3. The time has come for business continuity to evolve beyond the idea of “all hazards” planning and deal directly with…
Avalution Team | Dec 20, 2010
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Plan Do Check Act (PDCA) – How it Applies To Business Continuity
The business continuity industry has heard a lot about Plan, Do, Check Act (PDCA) recently. Nearly every emerging standard is following this approach, from BS 25999 and NFPA 1600 (2010 edition) to the new American business continuity…
Avalution Team | Jun 30, 2010
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UPDATED: Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPOD): What is it, where did it come from and why it is important to your organization?
UPDATE: The British Standards Institute (BSI) has issued a corrigendum in response to this article, slightly expanding the definition of MTPOD in a business continuity management system. The change makes explicit BSI’s intent that MTPOD be identified…
Avalution Team | Jul 06, 2009
