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Year | Category | Author | Title | Description |
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2020 | LinkedIn Article | David Lindstedt | Coronavirus and Christchurch: Actionable Advice from Protracted Disasters | What we have learned from protracted disasters in the early 21st century and how to apply it to COVID-19. |
2020 | LinkedIn Article | David Lindstedt | Standard Business Continuity Cannot Help You Now (and what to do instead) | Why standard business continuity has been of limited value during COVID-19 and how Adaptive BC can improve the situation. |
2019 | The BC Profession | Mark Armour | I Admit I Was Wrong | If you've followed Adaptive for any length of time then you are surely aware that it has its share of detractors and that it has certainly caused some rancor within the establishment. In this piece, Mark Armour tries to make amends. |
2019 | General BC Practices | David Lindstedt | Adaptive BC vs BCI's GPG: What is Business Continuity? | David Lindstedt lays out some of the most fundamental differences between our profession's traditional definition of business continuity and Adaptive's. |
2019 | The BC Profession | Mark Armour | On Stones, Clay and Rubber Balls | Mark Armour does his level-best to try to put business continuity wihtin its proper context amid resilience, risk and emergency management. |
2019 | General BC Practices | Mark Armour | The Secret to Executive Engagement: Don't Try to Get Executive Engagement | While traditional business continuity methodology puts a significant focus on executive support and engagement, Adaptive specifically looks to spread the wealth across the organization. What then, is to be done about involvement of leadership? Mark Armour answers this question here. |
2019 | Academic Research | His Yueh Chen, Ajay Das, Dmitry Ivanov | Building resilience and managing post-disruption supply chain recovery | Eye opening academic research paper. Example: "The unpredictability of disruption magnitude and nature suggests that the post-disruption management process may be as important, if not more so, than pre-determined pre-disruption strategies." |
2019 | Resilience | David Lindstedt | Can Resilience Survive? The Fundamental Questions behind Resilience | For resilience to endure, it faces at least three significant challenges: A clear definition of scope, an accepted set of measures, and a value that is more than the sum of its parts. It seems very unlikely that resilience will be able to overcome even one, let alone all three, of these challenges. |
2019 | BIA and RA | David Lindstedt | Some thoughts about the BIA debate | In a response to recent articles about the BIA's role in business continuity, Dr. David Lindstedt responds and attempts to reframe the debate |
2018 | The BC Profession | David Lindstedt | 2018: The BC Ship Continues to Sink | This is a follow-up to David Lindstedt's article "The Sinking Ship of Business Continuity" and continues to make the case that the leading business continuity institutions (DRI and the BCI) are no longer in the business of BC. |
2018 | General BC Practices | David Lindstedt | The Strange Place of the Human in Business Continuity | An insightful look at business continuity and how it differs from so many other endeavors. A great follow-up is David Lindstedt's Agile, Purpose, and Self-Organizing BC Teams. |
2018 | Adaptive Busines Continuity | David Lindstedt | Time: A New Adaptive BC Principle | Unless you were following Adaptive in early 2018, you may not be aware that the original Manifesto only had 9 Principles. After publishing "Our Deep Misunderstanding of Time in Preparedness Planning" it was decided that a new Principle was warranted. |
2018 | Adaptive Busines Continuity | Mark Armour | Adaptive Business Continuity: Clearly Different, Arguably Better | Is Adaptive truly better than traditional approaches to business continuity? Well, looking at the language used by both, it seems pretty clear which makes more sense and delivers greater value. |
2018 | General BC Practices | David Lindstedt | The Unbearable Lightness of BC-ing | Should we get rid of business continuity plans? If so, why and with what do we replace all that shelfware with anyway? |
2018 | The BC Profession | David Lindstedt | The Sinking Ship of Business Continuity | The major players in the business continuity game seem to be preoccupied with other endeavors. Does this signal the demise of business continuity as we know it? |
2018 | The BC Profession | David Lindstedt | The BCI Report: Echo Chambers, Disturbing Graphics and Status Quo | A lot of what the business continuity industry touts as research is really just a collection if anecdotal evidence curated from within the discipline. David Lindstedt decides to take an in-depth look at the shortcomings. |
2018 | Metrics & Measures | David Lindstedt | 11X Time to Value: Adaptive v Traditional BC Approaches | While traditional business continuity methodology may "get you there", Adaptive is far more likely to get you there quicker and for a lot less effort. David Lindstedt provides some compelling arguments. |
2017 | General BC Practices | David Lindstedt | Our Deep Misunderstanding of Time in Preparedness Planning | This is the basis for one of the Adaptive BC Principles: Employ Time as a Restriction, Not a Target. The case for this principle is well articulated here. |
2017 | Adaptive Busines Continuity | David Lindstedt | Adaptive BC: Complexity, Change and Chaos | While a realtively quick read, this particular piece requires some deep thinking. Thank you David Lindstedt. |
2017 | BIA and RA | Timothe Graziani | No More BIA | Timothe Graziani weighs in on the BIA debate. His title should leave little doubt about which side he stands on. |
2017 | Adaptive Busines Continuity | Mark Armour with Roger Jarvis | Issues with Adaptive Business Continuity: A Rebuttal | In this piece, Mark Armour provides a rebuttal to an e-mail received from Roger Jarvis and several arguments against Adaptive Business Continuity. Judging from the comments section, Roger may be coming around in the end. |
2017 | Adaptive Busines Continuity | David Lindstedt | Emerging: Adaptive Business Continuity | In this relatively brief piece, David Lindstedt lays out some of the stark contrasts between traditional thinking in business continuity and Adaptive. |
2017 | BIA and RA | Peter Barnes | A Different Perspective on the BIA / Risk Assessment Question | Many of the arguments against Adaptive BC come from long-standing professionals within the discipline. There are those who not only see the light but, apparently, never embraced many of those practices we are against. |
2017 | BIA and RA | David Lindstedt | What Was the BIA? | David Lindstedt provides a bit of history to put context to our profession's embrace of the BIA while using it to make the case for its elimination. |
2017 | General BC Practices | David Lindstedt | Agile, Purpose, and Self-Organizing BC Teams | This one makes a good companion piece to David Lindstedt's The Strange Place of the Human in Business Continuity. Great insight, as always. |
2017 | The BC Profession | Mark Armour | Positioning Our Profession for Greatness | Some reasons to be optimistic about the future of business continuity. Looks for numerous links to additional articles along the way. |
2017 | The BC Profession | David Lindstedt | Opening Remarks: BCI World 2017 - The Future of the Profession | David Lindstedt participated in a panel discussion at BCI World in London back in 2017. Since he never got the opportunity to speak his mind then, he does so for us here on LinkedIn. |
2017 | The BC Profession | Mark Armour | The Future of Business Continuity is Here | Mark Armour takes a look back at how business continuity methodology came to be in order to look forward and signs that a new day may be dawning. |
2017 | BIA and RA | Orianda Guilfoyle | Why Risk Assessments Don't Work | It is always good when smart people outside the discipline make strong cases for the points we frequently make. Great insight into why we should not be performing risk assessments. Ever. |
2016 | General BC Practices | Mel Gosling | A new approach to business continuity | Way back in 2016, Mel Gosling was extolling the virtues of Adaptive while providing his own keen critique of the BC profession. |
2016 | General BC Practices | Mark Armour | Continuity 1.0: Preparedness in the Jurassic Era | Mark Armour makes enemies left and right by criticising nearly all the hallmarks of traditional business continuity methodology. Probably a good idea he decided to apologies (three years later) with I Admit I Was Wrong |
2016 | The BC Profession | Timothy Lombardo and David Lindstedt | On continuity case studies | On the nature and current limitations of continuity case studies within research and academia |
2015 | The BC Profession | Mark Armour | What We Are Great at Doing is not Doing Us Much Good | In what may be a first within the profession, Mark Armour offers up some of the biggest mistakes of his career instead of touting his accomplishments (assuming he has any). |
2015 | The BC Profession | David Lindstedt | Why Adaptive Business Continuity May Be Inevitable | One of the few peiece where the tital says it all. David Lindstedt gets right to the point and we all hope he is right. |
2015 | General BC Practices | Mark Armour | Is RTO Getting Old? | Even before the Manifesto or its 10th Principle (Employ Time as a Restriction, Not a Target) Mark Armour was making the case for eliminating the old stalwart of current standards: the Recovery Time Objective. |
2015 | General BC Practices | Mark Armour | If I Were a Carpenter | A conceptual piece from Mark Armour explaining how Adaptive differs in concept to the instruction-driven approach offered by traditional methodology |
2015 | Adaptive Busines Continuity | Mark Armour | Another Way to Execute Against the Adaptive Principles | In a follow-up to Executing Adaptive (In Three Easy Steps!) Mark Armour provides another means by which someone might deliver "business continuity" without virtue of a rote methodology. |
2015 | Adaptive Busines Continuity | Mark Armour | Executing Adaptive (In Three Easy Steps!) | It may come as a surprise that Adaptive BC was not immediatley understood or embraced upon initial publicaiton of the Manifesto. Here, Mark Armour provides a tutorial on how one might go about this endeavor if not following traditional methodology. Check out the follow-up: Another Way to Execute Against the Adaptive Principles. |
2015 | General BC Practices | David Lindstedt | Business Continuity is Broken: Three Reasons, Three Paths | If you want to understand the genesis of Adaptive Business Continuity, this is a good place to start. David Lindstedt explores the problems with the discipline and where we go from here. |
2015 | BIA and RA | Mark Armour | A Letter to the BIA | OK. It's not the most academic piece you will read on here but some levity doesn't hurt. |
2015 | General BC Practices | Brad Grissom | Manifesto for Agile Business Continuity Planning | Brad Grissom was Adaptive before there WAS an Adaptive! Check out his forward-thinking take on Agile and Business Continuity |
2015 | Academic Research | Abdul-Akeem Sadiq, John D. Graham | Exploring the Predictors of Organizaitonal Preparedness for Natural Disasters | You might think that the time and effort spend in preparedness planning would be a solid predictor of an organization's ability to recover effectively following a disaster. You'd be wrong. |
2014 | Academic Research | Camilla Amundsen | BCP and Perceptions of Impact | This is a strong academic evaluation of the state of business continuity. If you think we still have a ways to go to then read this to see just how deep the rabbit hole goes. |
2013 | General BC Practices | Rainer Hubert | Risks and Scenarios versus Resources | Rainer Hubert's work actually helped set the foundation for Adaptive Business Continuity. This article provides a strong argument for abandoning our profession's long-running obsession with risks and scenarios. |
2012 | BIA and RA | Rainer Hubert | Why the BIA Does not Work | As far back as 2012, practitioners were advocating for the abolishment of the BIA (well, this one was anyway). The arguments here still stand and are probably even more relevant today. |
2012 | Metrics & Measures | David Lindstedt | Measuring Preparedness and Predicting Recoverability (The RPC Model) | The definitive paper on the subject of measuring preparedness. It is not about conformity to standards or recording the time to execute recovery strategies. This one is worth reading multiple times in order for it to sink in. |
2011 | Academic Research | Gary R. Webb, Kathleen J. Tierney, James M. Dahlhamer | Predicting long-term business recovery from disaster | How do we predict a business's ability to recover from the impact of a disaster? Evidence suggests it is not based on the time devoted to planning. |
2010 | Academic Research | James M. Dahlhamer, Kathleen J. Tierney | Rebounding from disruptive events | What does it take to recover effectively from the impacts of disaster? This gets to the heart of what resilience should be about. |
2009 | The BC Profession | Mel Gosling and Andrew Hiles | Business Continuity Statistics: Where Myth Meets Facts | It's an oldie but a goodie. If you've ever read the mythical statistic that XX% of businesses that experience a disaster without a business continuity plan in place fail, then definitely read this. |
2000 | Academic Research | Gary R. Webb, Kathleen J. Tierney, James M. Dahlhamer | Businesses and Disasters: Empirical Patterns and Unanswered Questions | We don't know a whole lot about continuity and preparedness planning. And we've done a poor job of even attempting to learn more. |
1996 | Academic Research | James M. Dahlhamer, Kathleen J. Tierney | Winners and Losers: Predicting Business Disaster Recovery Outcomes | A good companion peiece to Exploring the Predictors of Organizational Preparedness. We are led to believe that preparedness is the key to being able to recover effectively but many other unrelated factors determine outcome. |