Business Continuity Defined

Business Continuity evolved from “Disaster Recovery” which developed during the mainframe, data center environment days. These plans focused on protecting the investment in the equipment, preserving the infrastructure and assuring that application data was properly backed-up.

Recovery experts soon realized that to be effective, recovery efforts had to be expanded to address overall business operations. Business Continuity concepts soon began to emerge. The focus of activities expanded out of the data center and now encompassed all business operations; and, consequently, required business managers from throughout the organization to become involved.

The vision for tomorrow is that business continuity and disaster recovery need to transform into "Business Resilience". Business resilience incorporates recoverability into an organizations culture by transforming its systems and processes to address resiliency in a proactive manner, simply making it part of the way you do business.

Today, there is full realization that a single event can seriously compromise a company’s ability to survive.

As a result Business Continuity efforts must now mature to a higher level of effectiveness. At BetterContinuity, we believe in the emerging concepts of “business resilience”. Simply stated, business resilience reflects an attitude that states, regardless of the problem, the company will recover and survive. Resilience prepares a company for all crisis incidents, day-to-day and the catastrophic. It is understood that business resilience is not bravado, but rather sound business practices that incorporates the principles of business continuity; and result in a culture that assures key stakeholders that the company will thrive and survive.