As president of Premier Purchasing Partners, Mike Alkire has responsibility for an organization that offers comprehensive supply chain services to 2,300 hospitals of the Premier healthcare alliance. Using Premier’s contracts,… Continue reading An Interview with the Mike Alkire of Premier Purchasing Partners

Risk to your business comes in many forms. There are natural disasters and economic downturns, as well as legal and regulatory compliance issues. There’s also unplanned downtime caused by poorly… Continue reading Be Prepared for the Unpredictable with Nimble Private Cloud Infrastructure

The headlines are impossible to miss as havoc in the financial markets and the spiraling economic mess have unfolded. Daily, we hear of Fortune 500 companies that are struggling to… Continue reading When Suppliers Go Out-of-Business

This article describes the approaches used for the various types of business continuity management (BCM) audits and how audits impact the business continuity planner. It also describes the most common… Continue reading How to Survive a BCM Audit

The time has come for business continuity to evolve beyond the idea of “all hazards” planning and deal directly with the core causes of business interruptions. This article details an… Continue reading The Death of All Hazards Planning?

Despite the hype that leads us to look at cloud computing as the new platform for critical applications, most enterprises are not buying public cloud computing systems as their primary… Continue reading Leveraging Cloud Computing for Business Continuity

Nat Forbes created quite a stir recently with a thought-provoking blog post at calamityprevention.com called “Is the BCM Profession a Dead-End?” He begins with a dark but somewhat funny characterization… Continue reading Is the Future of Business Continuity Broad or Deep?

A major UK bank has experienced no major system outages in its ATM network for 15 years. How has it achieved this remarkable availability? Through the use of an active/active… Continue reading Achieving Continuous Availability with Active/Active Networks

At the recent DRJ conference in Orlando one of my friends said, “Why don’t you present a crisis management case study using the Toyota accelerator crisis?” I thought that it… Continue reading Oil Spill Moves Toyota From Spotlight

As business continuity professionals, we are often asked to “lead the charge” in establishing a business continuity capability throughout our organization. It’s a task we take seriously because we know… Continue reading Are you a Zealot?