A Risk Management Approach to Business Continuity: Aligning Business Continuity with Corporate Governance

I have chosen this book from the list of Business Continuity Institute recommended literature. I cannot say it was a well-informed choice. However I did not regret it even a single bit. One thing that instantly attracted me was the link between Business Continuity and Risk Management in its heading.The book was true to its heading.Pros:- The book is very well-structured- The book is comprehensive (and beware... 400-pages long!)- The book is full of real-world examples, case studies, and templates- It is not only useful for those on BC side, but to th elesser mortals on IT service continuity side (like me)- There is comprehensive glossary at the endCons:- The language is at times somewhat difficult to read (bear in mind, I am non-native speaker)- Few "broken links" and minor inconsistencies - i.e. chapter A references chapter B, while it should be C- The book might have a bit more illustrations- No headings (except chapters) numberingDespite its minor "bugs", the book is worth every penny spent to buy and every minute spent reading it. My suggestion - while reading this book, have a pencil and stick-on bookmarks ready. You will be coming back to it!I refer to this book in my day-to-day work, and find it becoming my good friend in guiding me through the maze of Business Continuity best practices. Many thanks to Julia Graham and David Kaye.

I found it difficult to follow

I hated this book because i am a non-smoker and all i can smell even before opening this book is cigarette smoke, it reeks and i mean literally, it a good thing i only paid $272.00. will not be purchasing from seller again

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The circumstances that lead Julia and I to write this book are interesting and help to explain what it is, and why it is quite different from other books. The Institute of Risk Management, who are the International Institute for vocational risk management education, asked me to be their lead examiner on business continuity. The first task was to set out to find a textbook that takes the organisation wide and holistic risk view on business resilience. I needed to find one that had the vision to see that business continuity as something that includes, but is now so very much more than, the fast replacement of technology and workstations.I do believe that this is so important, not least because the science of business continuity must keep pace with change amongst our own `stakeholders', i.e. the organisations that employ us and also their own stakeholders. If we do not evolve and take our rightful place in the strategic thinking of the organisation, we will increasingly be sidelined from the crucial and the real resilience debates; and others will be asked to manage stakeholder expectations.The modern day organisational structure has so many more single points of risk that potentially offer complete destruction than the business models of the 1990s. The supply and the delivery chains are outsourced, the intellectual assets are much more critical and diverse and are, even in themselves, outsourced. The workforce is managed by third parties, and the double-barrelled risks of brand and speed are the real dependencies at the heart of the modern-day organisational promise. It is no coincidence that the board, the risk manager, investor, regulator, auditor, as well as the business continuity manager, increasingly sees resilience an ever more important concern amongst their worry beads.In spite of asking many friends and fellow professionals to search out a book for me that captures that wide-business resilience , and thus bring together as a team the various managers concerned with risk, we failed to find even one.The upshot was that Julia and I set out to write one. This was not only to provide the Institute with their needed textbook but because we feel strongly that the business continuity industry does need to move on into the 21st century. We hope that the book will encourage that process and encourage co-operation between erstwhile silos of risk management that, in isolation can be so dangerous to today's organisations.We have written the book therefore with a view, not only to aid students to develop their understanding, but also as a good read for everybody who has a responsibility to ensure that their function, public service or profit making, can continue to deliver on its promises.David KayeFCII FRSA FBCI MIRM

Written by experts, the book’s contribution to business continuity and risk management students and practitioners is important and lies in the fact that it raises the reader's awareness of the many ways of viewing risk and operations within an organisational setting. It also challenges the readership to contemplate the multifaceted elements of risk and continuity, the ways in which they are perceived and understood, and the decisions to make in response to these. This is a book for security, continuity and risk practitioners.