Organizations need to make BCM programs measurable to enable useful oversight and accountability. Too often, however, measuring BCM becomes unnecessarily complex, time-consuming and onerous, diverting resources and sapping engagement and commitment.

The painful reality is that our power utilities aren’t as reliable as we want to believe, and their facilities are vulnerable to attack. It’s time for organizations to actively mitigate and plan for disruptions of electricity and natural gas.

You invested in building a recovery plan, and hopefully tested it and your team, but it doesn’t end there. Business continuity isn’t a project – it’s a program, and your plan needs to be maintained. Here is what plan maintenance involves.