Hello, reader!

Let's get the most important question out of the way.

Why on earth would you want to read my posts?

First - I assume that you have an interest in business continuity planning.

If you are involved in business continuity planning and have a problem, what do you do? Chances are, you'll do an online search on 'business continuity planning' - and you'll be flooded with all sorts of results (over 4 million today!) including posts, program documents, presentations and videos from practitioners from all over the world in organizations of all kinds that are big, small, and everywhere in between.

There's a good reason for that. Business continuity is a fuzzy concept, kind of like 'leadership', embracing multiple disciplines in the service of moving an organization toward an objective. It takes experience to build the skills to successfully guide a business back to operation after something bad happens.

Searches can give you some very detailed descriptions of what well-meaning people in specific situations have done, but you might have to dig for a very, VERY long time to find something that might (or might not) work for you.

You'll find lots of definitions and classes and documents and tools in your searches as well. These are (mostly) good but very general, with little to no applicability to what I expect you are facing as a practical matter (unless of course you are writing a policy manual, in which case they might be very helpful indeed!)

SO - to answer the original question of why you should read my posts, here's the answer. Read them for discussion and insights from 40+ years of business application implementation and recovery experience, in organizations large and small, so that you can learn to more easily navigate your own particular situation.

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This is a journey - happy to have you along!

Rod Hedges