September 16, 2009

Contingency Planning & Management, a leading source of information for business continuity and COOP professionals, recently featured an article by Archer product experts Steve Suther and Susan Read-Miller. The focus of the piece is on the need for organizations to incorporate automation, integration and mobility into their business continuity management programs.

Article Excerpt:

The 2008 recession has forced business continuity teams to grapple with executive management’s perception of business continuity as an insurance policy rather than a mechanism for driving organizational success. According to Roberta Witty, research vice president for Gartner, in Gartner Inc.’s “How the Business Continuity Management Professional Can Survive the Worldwide Economic Crisis” April 2, 2009, “The BCM professional must shift from a ‘recovery only’ mindset to one that focuses on the larger issues of risk management and business resiliency.”

Business continuity plans are often the only place within an organization to document business processes and their interdependencies. Business continuity teams must leverage this valuable information not only for operational recovery, but also to share key performance and risk indicators with business units and risk management teams.

Archer’s recent business continuity poll revealed that 38% of business continuity professionals are interested in integrating business continuity and risk management data to provide a consistent measurement of risk across the enterprise (see figure below). This integration into a larger governance, risk and compliance (GRC) program enables organizations to understand business availability risks in the context of their overall risk posture.

To read the full article, visit Contingency Planning & Management online. And if you’d like to hear more about business continuity trends from Gartner’s Roberta Witty and see a demo of Archer’s Business Continuity Management solution, please request access to our recorded BCM webcast.