Aligning ICT Continuity with BCM

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Aligning ICT Continuity with BCM

• Ron Miller MBCI

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BCM Lifecycle (BS 25999)
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The challenges
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Why is it important?

• In modern society knowledge is power
• Economic success and influence
• Competitive advantage (BUT greater consumer
  awareness)
• Upskilling leads to greater innovation
• Entrepreneurial success
• Key business differentiator
• Knowledgeable/skilful workforce attractive to
  customers
• Innovation knowledge attractive to investors
• Globalisation makes this an imperative
• Decline of traditional industries
• Rise of China/India as industrial giants
• Global marketplace has exploded in size

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What is knowledge?

• Information is not knowledge.
• Albert Einstein
• Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into
  practice.
• Anton Chekhov
• Skill to do comes of doing.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Making and keeping connections

• People need access to information
• People within organisations need to communicate
  internally and externally
• Without either or both you are
• Invisible
• Incompetent
• Irrelevant
• In deep sht

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What has changed - technology?
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What has changed - technology?

• Explosion of data (and plummeting storage costs)
• Explosion of bandwidth (and plummeting costs)
• Explosion in processing power (Moores Law still
  holds)
• Greater complexity of technology
• Greater dependency on technology

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What has changed - technology?
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Whats changing technology and the way we use
it?

• Trends
• Server virtualisation
• Voice and data convergence
• Femtocells
• VOIP
• Social networking Web 2.0
• Distributed (cloud) computing?
• Outsourcing
• ASPs
• Web-based computing

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A plethora of Standards