Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach

by David Lindstedt, Mark Armour, Kristen Noakes-Fry (Editor)

Have you begun to question traditional best practices in business continuity (BC)? Do you seem to be concentrating on documentation rather than preparedness? Compliance rather than recoverability? Do your efforts provide true business value? If you have these concerns, David Lindstedt and Mark Armour offer a solution in Adaptive Business A New Approach. This ground-breaking new book provides a streamlined, realistic methodology to change BC dramatically.
After years of working with the traditional practices of business continuity (BC) – in project management, higher education, contingency planning, and disaster recovery – David Lindstedt and Mark Armour identified unworkable areas in many core practices of traditional BC. To address these issues, they created nine Adaptive BC principles, the foundation of this









Adaptive Business A New Approach uses the analogy of rebuilding a house. After the initial design, the first step is to identify and remove all the things not needed in the new house. Thus, the first chapter is “Demolition” – not to get rid of the entire BC enterprise, but to remove certain BC activities and products to provide the space to install something new. The stages continue through foundation, framework, and finishing. Finally, the last chapter is “Dwelling,” permitting you a glimpse of what it might be like to live in this new home that has been created.
Through a wealth of examples, diagrams, and real-world case studies, Lindstedt and Armour show you how you can execute the Adaptive BC framework in your own organization. You

190 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 5, 2017

Reviews

[Peter Wriede · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting and helpful Resilience text, in challenging current and traditional views and approaches to Business Continuity. Highly recommend this text.