Getting Your Business Back: Pulling Together Business Continuity, Crisis Management and Disaster Recovery

I have talked to many organizations about their recovery programs, and an observation that I have made that seems to be a common thread is that the responsibility for recovery seems to lie in several different (and often uncoordinated) department.  It begs the question, who is responsible for business recovery within a company?  I’ve seen the Business Continuity group report to the CFO, the Risk Officer, the COO and the IT department.  But structure and reporting does not equal recovery. True business recovery can only take place when it becomes part of the culture of the company. Basically everybody has…